Dorothy Walton Gatley Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Ann, born Dorothy Gatley, spent most of her childhood as an "army brat" constantly moving around before the family finally settled in New York. Ann first appeared on the stage while she spent a year attending Bryn Mawr College. She became a clerk and freelance script reader with a film company before she made her stage debut in Greenwich Village. ...
I believe that the actress who wears her profession on her sleeve, as it were, outside of her work, is, as a rule, merely dramatizing herself. When she acts off-stage as well as on, she is wasting her talent. It is like using nectar to quench a casual thirst.
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Fact
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She joined the NAACP in 1934, having been disgusted by what she considered racism in her 1932 movie Prestige. In 1935, she attended a benefit in support of the group's Anti-Lynching bill.
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[May 4, 1933] Was saved, along with traveling companions Alexander Kirkland and Marie Lombard, from shark infested waters off the coast of Havana, Cuba, when their sailboat overturned. They were accompanied by a sailor, Magin Alvarez Prieda, who did not survive the incident.
3
Her father was Brig. Gen. George Grant Gatley, commander of the U.S. Rainbow Division in France during World War I. Mother Bessie Crabbe Gatley's father was also a military man. She had an older sister named Edith.
4
Attended high school in East Orange High in New Jersey.
5
Was once a Dictaphone operator for the welfare division of Metropolitan Life.
6
Met actor Harry Bannister while she at Detroit's Garrick Theatre in 1926 as its lead actress, producer, casting director and business manager. She hired him as a last-minute replacement leading man and they married later that year (daughter Jane was born in 1928). Their divorce in 1932 led to a year-and-a-half-long custody battle.
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Unlike most film stars at that time, Ann dressed down off-camera and had little concern for her outwardly appearance. She often attended premieres without makeup or fancy hair-dos. Gossip maven Adela Rogers St. Johns claimed that Ann was "...the worst dressed woman I ever saw in my life!".
8
Was estranged from her only child Jane for several years before her death in 1981.
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Her vehicle The Life of Vergie Winters (1934), portraying an unwed woman who carries on an illicit love affair with a married man and bears his child, was banned in Chicago and placed on the Catholic Church's films to be boycotted.
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Was the first major female star to join the Screen Actors Guild and later held the rank of 2nd Vice-President.
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Her daughter Jane was born in 1928 and died in December 2005. She had another daughter, Grace Kaye Janssen, with her second husband.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Ben Casey
1965
TV Series
Edith Sommers
Dr. Kildare
1964
TV Series
Mae Priest
The Eleventh Hour
1963
TV Series
Mrs. Green
Burke's Law
1963
TV Series
Annabelle Rogers
Armstrong Circle Theatre
1963
TV Series
The Defenders
1963
TV Series
Helen Bernard
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1961
TV Series
Sarah Hale
Westinghouse Presents: Come Again to Carthage
1961
TV Movie
Play of the Week
1960-1961
TV Series
Mrs. Califer / Cora
Sunday Showcase
1960
TV Series
Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
TV Series
Naomi
Matinee Theatre
1955-1958
TV Series
Minnie Sweeney
Kraft Theatre
1957
TV Series
The 20th Century-Fox Hour
1955-1957
TV Series
Abigail Clay / Mrs. Apley
Climax!
1955-1957
TV Series
Mrs. Roach / Lady Bertha Wetherby
Cavalcade of America
1957
TV Series
Mrs. Milgrim
General Electric Theater
1955-1956
TV Series
Julia Courtney
Strange Intruder
1956
Mary Carmichael
I've Lived Before
1956
Mrs. Jane Stone
Celebrity Playhouse
1956
TV Series
Playwrights '56
1956
TV Series
Augusta
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956
Helen Hopkins
Front Row Center
1956
TV Series
Grammie
Studio 57
1955
TV Series
Martha Halstead
Crossroads
1955
TV Series
Hulda Lund
Damon Runyon Theater
1955
TV Series
The Ford Television Theatre
1953-1955
TV Series
Louise Potter
Lux Video Theatre
1954-1955
TV Series
Cathy Cook / Nora Walling / Henrietta Mekker
Stage 7
1955
TV Series
Harriet Gates Adams
Schlitz Playhouse
1953-1954
TV Series
Julia Courtney
Hollywood Opening Night
1952
TV Series
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
1952
TV Series
Jane Carver
It's a Big Country: An American Anthology
1951
Undetermined role / deleted episode (scenes deleted)
The Unknown Man
1951
Stella Masen
The Magnificent Yankee
1950
Fanny Bowditch Holmes
Two Weeks with Love
1950
Katherine Robinson
Christmas Eve
1947
Aunt Matilda
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947
Mary O'Connor
Janie Gets Married
1946
Lucille Conway
Those Endearing Young Charms
1945
Mrs. Brandt (Captain)
Janie
1944
Lucille Conway
Nine Girls
1944
Gracie Thornton
The North Star
1943
Sophia Pavlov
Mission to Moscow
1943
Mrs. Marjorie Davies
Eyes in the Night
1942
Norma Lawry
A Night of Terror
1937
Carol Howard
The Witness Chair
1936
Paula Young
The Lady Consents
1936
Anne Talbot
Peter Ibbetson
1935
Mary, Duchess of Towers
The Flame Within
1935
Dr. Mary White
Enchanted April
1935
Mrs. Lotty Wilkins
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935
Marion Forsythe
The Fountain
1934
Julie von Marwitz
The Life of Vergie Winters
1934
Vergie Winters
Gallant Lady
1933
Sally Wyndham
The Right to Romance
1933
Dr. Margaret Simmons
Double Harness
1933
Joan Colby
When Ladies Meet
1933
Clare
The Animal Kingdom
1932
Daisy Sage
The Conquerors
1932
Caroline Ogden Standish
Westward Passage
1932
Olivia
Prestige
1932
Therese Du Flos
Devotion
1931
Shirley
East Lynne
1931
Lady Isabella
The Girl of the Golden West
1930
Minnie
Holiday
1930
Linda Seton
Condemned!
1929
Madame Vidal
Her Private Affair
1929
Vera Kessler
Paris Bound
1929
Mary Hutton
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Two Weeks with Love
1950
performer: "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" - uncredited
The Lady Consents
1936
performer: "My Blue Heaven" 1927, "I Love You So Much It's a Wonder You Don't Feel It" 1930, "I Surrender Dear" 1931, "Paradise" 1931, "Isn't This a Night for Love" 1933, "The Continental You Kiss While You're Dancing" 1934, "The Object of My Affection" 1934 - uncredited
Double Harness
1933
performer: "The King Kong March" - uncredited
When Ladies Meet
1933
performer: "I Love But Thee Jeg elsker Dig!" 1864 - uncredited
The Conquerors
1932
performer: "Long, Long Ago" 1883 - uncredited
Westward Passage
1932
performer: "What'll I Do?" - uncredited
Prestige
1932
performer: "Etude in E Op.10 No.3" 1832 - uncredited
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
TV Club
1950
TV Series documentary
Herself
Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 1
1936
Documentary short
Herself
The Hollywood Gad-About
1934
Documentary short
Herself (uncredited)
The Voice of Hollywood No. 12
1930
Short
Herself (uncredited)
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
2016
Documentary
Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Documentary
Herself
Complicated Women
2003
TV Movie documentary
Herself
General Electric Summer Originals
1956
TV Series
The Art Director
1949
Documentary short
Herself - edited from unidentified film (uncredited)
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1960
Star on the Walk of Fame
Walk of Fame
Motion Picture
On 8 February 1960. At 6201 Hollywood Blvd.
1960
Star on the Walk of Fame
Walk of Fame
Television
Awarded February 8, 1960 at 6850 Hollywood Blvd.
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1931
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Holiday (1930)
Known for movies
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) as Mary O'Connor
$20 Million
