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Ann Sothern
Actress
Female
Born
Jan 22, 1909
Hometown
Valley City, Nort...
Died
Mar 15, 2001
Death Place
Ketchum, Idaho
Other Names
Lake, Harriet Arlene
Ann Sothern was an American film and television actress whose career spanned six decades.
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Adolph DiazDated 1964 - 1968
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CHILDHOOD
1909
Birth
Born on January 22, 1909.
TEENAGE
1926
17 Years Old
Sothern was born in Valley City, North Dakota, but was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she graduated from Minneapolis Central High School in 1926.
1927
18 Years Old
Sothern left home and began her film career as an extra in the 1927 film Broadway Nights at the age of 18.
TWENTIES
1929
20 Years Old
During 1929 and 1930, she appeared as a chorus girl in such films as The Show of Shows and Whoopee! (as one of the "Goldwyn Girls").
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1931
22 Years Old
On Broadway in 1931, she had leading roles in America's Sweetheart (135 performances in which she sang "I've Got Five Dollars" and "We'll Be The Same") and in Everybody's Welcome (139 performances).
1934
25 Years Old
In 1934, Sothern signed a contract with Columbia Pictures, but after two years the studio released her.
In 1936, she was signed by RKO Radio Pictures and after a string of films that failed to attract an audience, Sothern left RKO and was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, making her first film for them in 1939.
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THIRTIES
1941
32 Years Old
On November 24, 1941, Sothern performed in the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of Maisie Was a Lady, and the popularity of the film series led to her own radio program, The Adventures of Maisie, broadcast on CBS from 1945 to 1947, on Mutual Broadcasting System in 1952 and in syndication from 1949 to 1953.
FORTIES
1949
40 Years Old
In 1949, Sothern appeared in the Oscar winning film, A Letter to Three Wives.
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1953
44 Years Old
In 1953, she landed the lead in the series Private Secretary.
1957
48 Years Old
After Private Secretary ended in 1957 due to a contract dispute between Sothern and producer Jack Chertok, she appeared in her own show, The Ann Sothern Show, from 1958 to 1961.
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FIFTIES
1964
55 Years Old
She co-starred with Henry Fonda in a 1964 dramatic film, The Best Man, as a woman whose annoying behavior must be tolerated by presidential candidates because she is considered to have considerable influence in party politics.
1965
56 Years Old
In 1965, she was heard as the voice of Gladys Crabtree (the car) in the short-lived series My Mother the Car, which co-starred Jerry Van Dyke.
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1967
58 Years Old
In 1967 her former boss Desi Arnaz approached her to co-star with Eve Arden as battling neighbors in The Mothers-in-Law.
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