32 tons of carrots dumped on London street for art installation. The film was an enormous commercial success. Harding was born Dorothy Walton Gatley at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas to George G. Gatley, a career army officer, and Elizabeth "Bessie" Walton (Crabb) Gatley. Conner, Lynne (2007). She was a petite woman with long blond hair which she kept tied like a bun at the nape of her neck. [15], Among Harding's romances was the novelist and screenwriter Gene Fowler.[16]. Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, CA, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (12-Apr-1956), Those Endearing Young Charms (27-Apr-1945), Biography of a Bachelor Girl (4-Jan-1935), Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile. She began acting and made her Broadway debut in Like a King in 1921. She played "Mary", the estranged wife of Charlie Ruggles, in the Christmas film "It Happened on Fifth Avenue" in 1947. Very Large Telescope finds 6 galaxies trapped in web of black hole, U.S. adds 43K COVID-19 cases; side effects seen in vaccine trials, Chrissy Teigen, John Legend lose baby boy due to pregnancy complications, Trump signs stopgap spending bill, averting federal shutdown. [2], Because her father "violently opposed her profession", Harding changed her name when she began her acting career.[2]. Miss Harding was married twice -- to actor Harry Bannister and orchestra conductor Werner Janssen. Oct. 1 (UPI) -- The Irish Supreme Court ruled the bread used for sandwiches at franchise chain Subway cannot be legally defined as bread because it contains too much sugar. pp.

After marrying conductor Werner Janssen in 1937, she worked only sporadically, with two notable roles coming in Eyes in the Night (1942) and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956). After initial work as a script reader, Harding began to win roles on Broadway and in regional theaters, primarily in Pennsylvania. ', Miss Harding interrupted her American film career in 1937 to star in 'Candida' on the London stage and to appear in the British film, 'Love From a Stranger.'. After her 1965 retirement, she resided in Sherman Oaks, California. Born: 7-Aug-1901 Birthplace: Fort Sam Houston, TX Died: 1-Sep-1981 Location of death: Sherman Oaks, CA Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, CA. Films during her peak include The Animal Kingdom, Peter Ibbetson, When Ladies Meet, The Flame Within, and Biography of a Bachelor Girl.

Both marriages ended in divorce. Ann Harding was an American stage and film star. She also had well-received leading roles in 'Devotion,' 'The Animal Kingdom,' 'Peter Ibbetson,' 'Westward Passage,' 'Her Private Affair,' 'Condemned,' 'Girl of the Golden West' and 'East Lynne. A regular player on Broadway and in regional theater in the 1920s, in the 1930s Harding was one of the first actresses to gain fame in the new medium of "talking pictures", and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931 for her work in Holiday. She briefly attended Bryn Mawr and then moved to New York to pursue an acting career, but took temporary work as a clerk and moonlighted as a reader for the Famous Players-Lasky film company. Flash of light seen over the East Coast likely a meteor, experts say. After two years of training with stock companies, she played major roles on Broadway in 'Tarnish,' 'The Green Hat,' 'Strange Fruit,' 'Thoroughbred,' 'A Woman Disputed' and 'The Trial of Mary Dugan' which ran for 310 performances over a two-year span. AKA Dorothy Walton Gatley. She moved to California to begin working in movies, which were just then beginning to include sound. Ann Harding (born Dorothy Walton Gatley, August 7, 1902 – September 1, 1981) was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress. Harding was married twice, her husbands being: In the early 1960s, Harding began living with Grace Kaye, an adult companion, later known as Grace Kaye Harding. Following lukewarm responses by both critics and the public to several of her later 1930s films, she eventually stopped making movies after she married the conductor Werner Janssen in 1937. [17] Oct. 1 (UPI) -- The Florida Highway Patrol said a driver was not injured when his pickup truck left the road and ended up plunging into a resident's backyard swimming pool. Oct. 1 (UPI) -- An animal control officer in Massachusetts was called out for a situation that was a first for her city -- an emu on the loose. Harding, however, eventually became stereotyped as the innocent, self-sacrificing young woman. Oct. 1 (UPI) -- A man who lost his class ring from a college in New York state was reunited with the ring when it was found decades later in the yard of a house where he used to live. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Jane Otto of San Francisco, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. After travelling often during her early life because of her father's career, she grew up in East Orange, New Jersey, graduated from East Orange High School,[1] and attended Bryn Mawr College. Her dream of becoming an actress was realized a year later when she won the leading role in the play 'Inheritors' in Greenwich Village. [8] She co-starred with Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, Myrna Loy, Herbert Marshall, Leslie Howard, Richard Dix, and Gary Cooper, and was often on loan to other studios, such as MGM and Paramount. A family spokesman, who refused to identify Miss Harding's illness, said the actress died Tuesday at a hospital in the San Fernando Valley. Harding also worked occasionally in television between 1955 and 1965, and she appeared in two plays in the early 1960s, returning to the stage after an absence of over 30 years, including the lead in "The Corn is Green" in 1964 at the Studio Theater in Buffalo, New York. Her work in plays had given her notable diction and stage presence, and she became a leading lady. Irish court: Subway's sandwich bread is not legally bread. Miss Harding was best known for her portrayals of gentlewomen in such films as 'Eyes of the Night,' 'Mission to Moscow,' 'North Star,' 'It Happened on Fifth Avenue' and 'Christmas Eve.'. Emu running loose through Massachusetts city lured with pear. The daughter of an Army captain and his wife, Ann spent a lot of time traveling around the US whenever her West Point-educated father was transferred. Harding's initial employment in the entertainment industry was as a script reader. University of Pittsburgh Press. Harding was born Dorothy Walton Gatley at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas to George G. Gatley, a career army officer, and Elizabeth "Bessie" Walton Gatley. Ontario man wins his second lottery jackpot in three months. Madame Vidal, Do you know something we don't? No funeral services were planned. She died there in 1981, and was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park -- Hollywood Hills.

During this period, she was generally considered to be one of cinema's most beautiful actresses, with her waist-length blonde hair being one of her most noted physical attributes. In 1962, she starred in General Seeger, directed by and co-starring George C. Scott, and in 1964 she appeared in Abraham Cochrane ("her last New York stage appearance"). [9], Harding was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Holiday in 1931. HOLLYWOOD -- Ann Harding, the statuesque blonde whose chiseled features landed her scores of roles as an aristocratic gentlewoman in the movies … The actress was born Dorothy Gatley in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, the daughter of an Army officer who became a major general during World War I. Ann Harding real name: Dorothy Walton Gatley Height: 5'2''(in feet & inches) 1.5748(m) 157.48(cm) , Birthdate(Birthday): August 7, 1902 , Age on September 1, 1981 (Death date): 79 Years 0 Months 25 Days Profession: Movies (Actress), Father: Brig. [5] She was a prominent actress in Pittsburgh theatre for a time, performing with the Sharp Company and later starting the Nixon Players with Harry Bannister.