Ann Richards (actress)

Ann Richards
Richards in Lost Honeymoon (1947)
Born	Shirley Ann Richards (1917-12-13)13 December 1917 Sydney, Australia
Died	25 August 2006(2006-08-25) (aged 88) Torrance, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1937–1960
Spouse	Edmond Angelo ​ ​ (m. 1949; died 1983)​
Children	Juliet, Christopher, Mark

Shirley Ann Richards (13 December 1917 – 25 August 2006) was an Australian actress and author who achieved notability in a series of 1930s Australian films for Ken G. Hall before moving to the United States, where she continued her career as a film actress, mainly as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starlet. Her best known performances were in It Isn't Done (1937), Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938), An American Romance (1944), and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). In the 1930s, she was the only Australian actor under a long-term contract to a film studio, Cinesound Productions. She subsequently became a lecturer and poet.^[1]