Ann Richards
Also Known As: Shirley Ann Richards
Biography: Ann Richards was an Australian actress who, as Shirley Ann Richards (her full original name), achieved notability in Australian films, then moved to Hollywood to pursue an American screen career.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Adult: No
Birthday: December 13, 1917
Age: 107 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 24, 2006
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Sorry, Wrong Number
Overview: Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-24
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Random Harvest
Overview: Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-17
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Badman's Territory
Overview: After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-04
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Love from a Stranger
Overview: Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-15
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Love Letters
Overview: When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-26
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An American Romance
Overview: A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-16
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Breakdown
Overview: A boxer (William Bishop) jailed for murder proves his girlfriend's (Ann Richards) wealthy father and a ward boss framed him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-16
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It Isn't Done
Overview: Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway),a simple Australian farmer inherits a castle and a title in England, and moves his family from the farm to the castle. He also inherits a very stuffy, prim-and-proper butler who constantly reprimands Blaydon whenever he disobeys aristocratic protocol...which he often does.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-24
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The Searching Wind
Overview: Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in Rome just as Mussolini is coming to power. There Alex marries Emily, daughter of a newspaper publisher who hires Cassie for his Paris bureau -- just before retiring from active management of his paper. Alex and Emily's son Sam, recently returned from active duty in World War II, learns the whole story one night in Washington when Emily invites Cassie to dinner. Sam has a story to tell, too.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-09
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Lost Honeymoon
Overview: An American architect learns he has two children whom he fathered during his military service.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-29
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Lovers and Luggers
Overview: Daubeney Carshott, a concert pianist, leaves London to dive for pearls on Thursday Island in the South Seas at the whim of Stella Raff, his fiancée. Once there, he discovers that the life he leads as a pearl diver is better in every way than his former existence as a social-lion pianist. He meets and falls in love with Lorna Quidley, after learning this Stella had send other suitors off in quest of a giant pearl for her.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-03
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Come Up Smiling
Overview: Barney O'Hara (Will Mahoney) and his young daughter Pat (Jean Hatton) tour the carnival circuit with a side show act, but when Pat is asked to sing at a party being given by a wealthy land-owner, her voice fails.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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Tall Timbers
Overview: A young forestry graduate, Jim Thornton, is involved in a race between timber companies to fill a major contract. Jim has joined the crew of a genial timber baron, Burbridge, and foils attempts by a rival, Blake, to sabotage their work. J. Alan Kenyon's special effects are the highlights of the film with comic relief provided by Joe Valli as a Scottish timber-train driver amorously pursued by a shrill-voiced maid of the Burbridge's country house.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-03
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100,000 Cobbers
Overview: Filmed at Liverpool Military Camp (Sydney) in 1941 and using national servicemen to lend authenticity, this film was one of many sponsored by the federal government during World War II to boost armed forces recruitment. The film also features recognisable actors of the day including Grant Taylor, Shirley Ann Richards and John Fleeting, who had appeared for director Ken G Hall in feataure films made by the Sydney-based Cinesound Productions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-06
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The Woman in the House
Overview: This short looks at the illness anthropophobia, the fear of people. In 1901, young Catherine Starr, who lives in a small English coastal town, has an argument with her fiancé. He leaves her house, goes off to serve in the Boer War, and dies of malaria. Catherine blames herself for his death and fears others will also blame her. She does not leave her house for forty years. Groceries are delivered to the house, but no one sees who retrieves them. When the Nazis bomb her house in September 1941, she is forced to cope with the outside world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-09
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Dad and Dave Come to Town
Overview: Dad and Dave Come to Town is a 1938 Australian comedy film directed by Ken G. Hall, the third in the 'Dad and Dave' comedy series starring Bert Bailey. It was the feature film debut of Peter Finch
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-29
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Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
Overview: The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-01
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