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Dorothy Anne Todd (24 January 1907, Hartford, Cheshire – 6 May 1993, London) was an English actress and producer.
She was born in Hartford, Cheshire and was educated at St. Winifrid's School, Eastbourne. She became a popular actress from appearing in such films as Perfect Strangers (1945) (as a nurse) and The Seventh Veil (1945) (as a troubled concert pianist). She is perhaps best known to American audiences as Gregory Peck's long-suffering wife in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947). She later produced a series of travel films. Her autobiography is entitled The Eighth Veil, an allusion to the film which made her a star in Britain. Todd was known as the \"pocket Garbo\" for her dimi…
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Dorothy Anne Todd (24 January 1907, Hartford, Cheshire – 6 May 1993, London) was an English actress and producer. She was born in Hartford, Cheshire and was educated at St. Winifrid's School, Eastbourne. She became a popular actress from appearing in such films as Perfect Strangers (1945) (as a nurse) and The Seventh Veil (1945) (as a troubled concert pianist). She is perhaps best known to American audiences as Gregory Peck's long-suffering wife in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947). She later produced a series of travel films. Her autobiography is entitled The Eighth Veil, an allusion to the film which made her a star in Britain. Todd was known as the \"pocket Garbo\" for her diminutive, blond beauty. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ann Todd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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I Am Alfred Hitchcock
as Self (archive footage)
The McGuffin
as Mrs. Forbes-Duthie
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
as Self - Interviewee (uncredited)
The Human Factor
as Castle's Mother
The Fiend
as Birdy Wemys
90° in the Shade
as Mrs. Kurka
The Son of Captain Blood
as Arabella Blood
Taste of Fear
as Jane Appleby
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
as Helen
No Poster
The Lady of the Camellias
as Marguerite Gautier
Time Without Pity
as Honor Stanford
The Green Scarf
as Solange Vauthier
The Sound Barrier
as Susan Garthwaite
Madeleine
as Madeleine Hamilton Smith
The Passionate Friends
as Mary Justin
So Evil My Love
as Olivia Harwood
Daybreak
as Frances "Frankie" Tribe
The Paradine Case
as Gay Keane
Gaiety George
as Kathryn Davis
The Seventh Veil
as Francesca Cunningham
Perfect Strangers
as Elena
No Poster
We Serve
Ships with Wings
as Kay Gordon
Danny Boy
as Jane Kaye
Poison Pen
as Ann Rider
South Riding
as Madge Carne
The Squeaker
as Carol Stedman
Action for Slander
as Ann Daviot
Things to Come
as Mary Gordon
The Return of Bulldog Drummond
as Phyllis Drummond
The Water Gipsies
as Jane Bell
No Poster
Keepers of Youth
as Millicent
The Ghost Train
as Peggy Murdock
These Charming People
as Pamela Crawford