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May 19, 2008 · Within that period, bridging the gap, are three forgotten films in which the English stage and film actress Ann Todd, who became Lean’s third wife, is the central female protagonist, if not the focal point of each narrative. The Passionate Friends (1949) and Madeleine (1950) were box-office flops, The Sound Barrier (1952) successful in the ...
1 day ago · Todd was known as the "pocket Garbo" for her diminutive, blonde beauty. Ann Todd married three times. Her first husband, Victor N. Malcolm, was a grandson of Lillie Langtry; she had a son with him named David Malcolm. Her second and third husbands (Nigel Tangye and David Lean) were first cousins. She had a daughter with Nigel Tangye called Ann ...
THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS, (aka ONE WOMAN'S STORY), Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains, 1949 SOUTH RIDING, Ann Todd, Ralph Richardson, Edna Best, 1938 SO EVIL MY LOVE, Ann Todd on set applying ...
Compton Bennett, 1945), Ann Todd acquired the stardom that 15 years of largely nondescript film roles had failed to deliver. The film was a heady mixture of psychiatry, (popular) classical music and charismatic leading performances and it was just what audiences wanted at the end of World War II. Unfortunately, Todd never again had such a box ...
Directed by David Lean • 1949 • United Kingdom Starring Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains. Four years after David Lean crafted what may be the screen’s most piercing examination of extramarital romance with BRIEF ENCOUNTER, he returned to a similar subject in this exquisite tale of a woman torn between the stability of marriage and the thrill of an affair.
When David Lean left London for Paris in the spring of 1955, the film-maker's finances were in a parlous state. The 47-year-old had separated from his wife, the actor Ann Todd (whom he was to ...
May 10, 2018 · Dorothy Annie Todd was born on January 21, 1907, in Hartford and under the shorter, presumably more glamorous stage name of Ann Todd, she went on to become a film star and actress famous across the world. She had an acting career which spanned the best part of 60 years, from the 1930s to the early 1990s, and which encompassed films, stage and TV.
