Classic Films

Another of the final few performers with links to the Golden Age of Hollywood has left us. Her obituary in Variety has some interesting details.

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/ann-blyth-dead-mildred-pierce-1236790987/

Ann Blyth, who drew a 1946 Oscar nomination for her memorable performance as the spoiled, selfish daughter of Joan Crawford’s hard-working, devoted title character in the classic film “Mildred Pierce,” died Wednesday. She was 98.

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In an interstitial recorded many decades later for Turner Classic Movies, Blyth recalled shooting “Mildred Pierce” with Crawford and declared that despite their characters’ fraught relationship on screen, she and Crawford got along very well, and it was hard for her to slap Crawford for one of the movie’s pivotal scenes.

Crawford won the best actress Oscar for “Mildred Pierce,” which was also nominated for best picture, among other categories.

Here are her credits on IMDB:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001955/?ref_=fn_t_1