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The daughter of a senior military spent her childhood and youth at various U.S. military bases. Contrary to the express wishes of her father, Ann Harding decided to pursue a career as an actress. Her biggest success on Broadway was able to celebrate the actress in the crime drama The Trial of Mary Dugan. Ann Harding was the beginning of 1929 to Hollywood, but hope to in the film adaptation of the play by MGM to play the main role, however, were shattered at the moment, decided as a Norma Shearer in the role of the chorus girls suspected of murdering her official debut in to give sound film. Harding then closed a contract with Pathé and the company managed to equal in her first film role, the adaptation of Philip Barry's comedy Salon Paris Bound, a sensational success.
Because it had once worked out very well, put the studio Harding immediately in the next film adaptation of a Barry piece. The lively presentation of Holiday brought to Ann Harding, the only nomination for the Oscar as best actress. The piece is now the most fans in the film version by George Cukor in 1938 with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in mind. By the time Harding was, together with the actresses Constance Bennett and Helen Twelvetrees the biggest stars in their home studio Pathé. Its status as the uncrowned queen kept it even after a short time later Pathé merged with other companies for the RKO.
From the beginning, Harding's career suffered a below what is known as type casting: the endless repetition of the same role. After the actress at the box office success was in large as cultured, long-suffering lady from high society, she decided to alter the recipe bit. The range of roles ranged from stale, old-fashioned melodramas like East Lynn or Devotion shrill triangle stories before about an exotic background, a la Studio Condemned, which began as the cool blonde wife of a prison warder in French Guyana, and prestige, with Ann somewhere as cool blonde Indochina in the farthest, or The Conquerors, where Ann langleidende wife of an adventurer than the chaos of the great American land-end of the 19th Century survive, and for their efforts from the studio at least $ 93,500 was awarded to Gesamtgage.
Their delicious flair for sophisticated comedy - a neologism for which there is no adequate German equivalent - is nowhere better than in 1932 in the film adaptation of the play The Animal Kingdom, in turn, by Philip Barry, with Leslie Howard and Myrna Loy. The film was Myrna Loy for the first time the chance to show their flair for light comedy, after they almost exclusively since 1925, Arab women, Chinese girls and other wild sirens had played like hell. 1933 Ann Harding was once seen as a Dame of self-denial of the better society that hides her heart under layers of mink and chinchilla, when it appeared in the film version of Broadwayhits When Ladies Meet, the kind-hearted woman played a publisher, who begins an affair with Myrna Loy. Later that year she was seen even at de side of William Powell in the crime comedy about Double Harness.
After 1933, however, decided to Harding, but still play in a tearful melodramas about. The stories are all similar, Ann falls in love with the wrong man, became pregnant without being married, somewhere, a murder takes place, Ann takes out some obscure reason, the blame goes to jail innocent, suffers a lot, crying even more and at the end there is a happy ending. The suffering is done with the greatest amount of glamor and like the fate of so mercilessly strike, Ann is always perfectly dressed and her beautiful long blonde hair is always coiffed to the most glorious. The climax of this unparalleled romantic Weltschmerz formed two bands of 1934: The elegant and stylishly directed drama The Life of Vergie Winters Harding was a great financial success. She was hired shortly thereafter by the 20th Century and used in Gallant Lady, a tearful saga to an unwed mother. The film was such a success that the studio was not the story four years later, newly titled Always Goodbye with Barbara Stanwyck filmed.
Eventually, the public masochistic stories about female self-sacrifice could no longer bear, and rather hurried into films depicted the lives of the lighter side. Claudette Colbert, Irene Dunne, Carole Lombard and Jean Arthur, all these actresses rendered on the canvas to prove that unlimited capacity for suffering was now completely passé and modern women could have fun in life and were allowed. After the flop of Enchanted April and the demanding, but financially disappointing adaptation of Peter Ibbetson, with fellow actor Gary Cooper, both of 1935, her career soon sank into insignificance. She turned her 1937, a B-movie in England. In 1942 she returned as a character actress in Eyes in the Night for Hollywood.
Ann Harding was married from 1926 to 1936 to actor Harry Bannister and between 1937 and 1962 with the composer Werner Janssen, both marriages were dissolved. She has a daughter from his first marriage.
Born Dorothy Walton Gatley
August 7, 1901
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Died September 1, 1981 (aged 80)
Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation Actress
Years active 1921-1965
Spouse(s) Harry Bannister (1926-1932)
Werner Janssen (1937-1962)
Film list
1929: Paris Bound
1929: Her Private Affair
1929: Condemened
1930: Holiday
1930: The Girl of the Golden West
1930: East Lynne
1931: Prestige
1931: Devotion
1932: Westward Passage
1932: The Conquerors
1932: The Animal Kingdom
1933: When Ladies Meet
1933: Double Harness
1933: The Right to Romance
1934: The Life of Vergie Winters
1934: The Fountain
1934: Gallant Lady
1935: Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935: The Flame Within
1935: Enchanted April
1935: Peter Ibbetson
1936: The Lady Consents
1936: The Witness Chair
1937: Love From A Stranger
