The death has been announced of actress Ann Blyth. Blyth, who was probably most famous for playing spoiled brat daughter Veda Pierce in the movie Mildred Pierce, was 98. I should point out that some sources listed her date of birth as 1928, but I believe Blyth talked about being 17 when she did the screen test for Mildred Pierce with Crawford, which would put her date of birth as 1927.
Blyth didn't have the longest of careers, at least not in the movies, as like a lot of actresses of her era, she aged out of roles and got married. The obituary I linked to says that her final feature film was The Helen Morgan Story, which I blogged about only a year ago.
As I write this, there hasn't been any tribute programmed on TCM for Blyth. She was the subject of a Summer Under the Stars day back in 2013, so TCM probably can get the rights to enough movies to do a reasonable tribute on her. I'm not certain if they'll pre-empt a night of programming in July, give her a day in Summer Under the Stars, or wait until September for a tribute.
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