Ann Todd

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia 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 Winifrids 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 Pecks longsuffering wife in Alfred Hitchcocks 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia