Ann Richards (actress)

Ann Richards (13 December 1917 – 25 August 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 Cotten 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 1970s. 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.

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