Ann Blyth, an Oscar nominee and one of the final remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood, has died at 98.
Blyth died on Wednesday, June 24, of natural causes, KABC’s George Pennachio announced on Facebook on Thursday, while noting that she was just two months shy of her 99th birthday.
The late star began her career as a child star in the 1930s with appearances on radio, before she transitioned to film and starred in several classic films throughout a career spanning more than 70 years.
The most iconic of her appearances was as the daughter of Joan Crawford’s title character in 1945’s classic film noir, Mildred Pierce.
The Michael Curtiz-directed melodrama helped make Blyth a star, and it earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Blyth played the wife of Burt Lancaster in Brute Force (1947), an even grittier noir crime film that featured some of the most extreme violence featured on screen up to that time.
Ann Blyth, an Oscar nominee and one of the final remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood, died Wednesday at 98, according to KABC’s George Pennachio; pictured in 2013 in Hollywood
The most iconic of her appearances was as the daughter of Joan Crawford’s title character in 1945’s classic film noir, Mildred Pierce (pictured)
