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Ann Richards (actress)
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Ann Richards (December 13, 1917 – August 25, 2006) was an Australian-American actress.
Born Shirley Ann Richards in Sydney, Australia and educated at Ascham School Edgecliff, Richards began her career as a lead actress in several successful Australian productions, including Ken Hall's Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938).
She moved to the United States in 1942 and was quickly signed to a contract with MGM. After a number of supporting roles, including Random Harvest with Ronald Colman and Greer Garson. She was publicized as the next great leading lady. The role which was supposed to break her into the mainstream, as Victoria Morland (playing opposite Joseph Cotton in Love Letters), was taken from her when Jennifer Jones signed on for the picture, while she was relegated to another supporting role. She also starred in The Searching Wind with Robert Young in 1946. After being dropped from MGM, Richards finished out her career with supporting roles in B-movies, such as the Barbara Stanwyck vehicle Sorry, Wrong Number in 1948.
After the unsuccessful film noir outing Breakdown (1952), Richards retired from acting. She had married Breakdown producer-director Edmond Angelo in 1949, and together they raised three children. She also wrote the verse play Helen of Troy in the 1970's. which she and her husband, producer-director Edmond Angelo, presented on college campuses.
They remained married until Angelo's death in 1983. After her retirement, Richards ventured into poetry, publishing several well-received volumes including The Grieving Senses in 1971 and Odyssey for Edmond in 1991.