
Ann Doran
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Ann Lee Doran (July 28, 1911 – September 19, 2000) was an American character actress, possibly best known as the mother of Jim Stark (James Dean) in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). She was an early member of the Screen Actors Guild and served on the board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund for 30 years.
Known for
Credits

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
as Carol Stark

Topaz (1969)
as Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)

Them! (1954)
as Child Psychiatrist

He Walked by Night (1949)
as Dispatcher (uncredited)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
as Paine's Secretary (uncredited)

Mr. Skeffington (1944)
as Maria (uncredited)

You Can't Take It with You (1938)
as Maggie O'Neill

Flood! (1977)
as Emma Fisher

My Favorite Brunette (1947)
as Miss Rogers

His Girl Friday (1940)
as Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
as Girl on Bus (uncredited)

Warlock (1959)
as Mrs. Richardson (uncredited)

Little Mo (1978)
as Aunt Gert

Magic Town (1947)
as Mrs. Weaver

The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
as Praying Woman (uncredited)

Start Cheering (1938)
as Green's Secretary

So Proudly We Hail (1943)
as Lt. Betty Peterson

The High and the Mighty (1954)
as Clara Joseph

A Summer Place (1959)
as Mrs. Talbert (uncredited)

Blondie (1938)
as Elsie Hazlip

The Snake Pit (1948)
as Valerie (uncredited)

The Gumball Rally (1976)
as Mrs. Ontley

Paula (1952)
as Mrs. Smith

Wildcats (1986)
as Mrs. Chatham

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
as Bobbi St. John

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
as Receptionist (uncredited)

The Priest Killer (1971)
as Harriet Miles

The Fountainhead (1949)
as Wynand's Secretary (uncredited)

Holiday (1938)
as Kitchen Maid (uncredited)

Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
as Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)

Meet John Doe (1941)
as Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)

They All Kissed the Bride (1942)
as Helena, the Maid

Let Us Live (1939)
as Secretary Juror (uncredited)

Pitfall (1948)
as Maggie

Island in the Sky (1953)
as Moon's Wife (uncredited)

Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
as Landlady (uncredited)

There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
as Mrs. Lomax

The Desperate Hours (1955)
as Mrs. Walling

The More the Merrier (1943)
as Miss Bilby (uncredited)

Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
as Clara Randolph

Air Force (1943)
as Mrs. Mary Quincannon (uncredited)

It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
as Mary Royce

I Love a Soldier (1944)
as Jenny Butler

The Arrangement (1969)
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Cold Turkey (1940)
as Mrs. Langdon

The Last Angry Man (1974)
as Nurse Whitbread

Kitten with a Whip (1964)
as Mavis Varden

The Badlanders (1958)
as Stagecoach Passenger - Mother (uncredited)

Joy Ride (1958)
as Grace Renny

Nothing Sacred (1937)
as Telephone Girl (uncredited)

Day of the Badman (1958)
as Martha Mordigan

Tomahawk (1951)
as Mrs. Carrington

Mirage (1965)
as Tenant in Apartment 3R (uncredited)

Not With My Wife, You Don't! (1966)
as Doris Parker

The Carpetbaggers (1964)
as Reporter (uncredited)

All Night Long (1981)
as Grandmother Gibbons

Penny Serenade (1941)
as Dotty

Reaching from Heaven (1948)
as Martha Kestner (as Ann Lee Doran)

Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
as Waitress (uncredited)

Dead of Night (1977)
as Mrs. McCauley

The Hired Hand (1971)
as Mrs. Sorenson

The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
as Betty Crawford

Love Is Better Than Ever (1952)
as Mrs. Levoy

The Go-Getter (1937)
as Maizie, the Maid (uncredited)

The People Against O'Hara (1951)
as Betty Clark, Policewoman

City Streets (1938)
as Nurse (uncredited)

Where Love Has Gone (1964)
as Mrs. Geraghty

Dive Bomber (1941)
as Joe's Blind Date (uncredited)

I'll Take Romance (1937)
as Minor Role

Stella Dallas (1937)
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Fear in the Night (1947)
as Lil Herlihy
The Son of Rusty (1947)
as Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

The Werewolf of Woodstock (1975)
as Dora

Pride of the Marines (1945)
as Ella Mae Merchant

The Green Hornet (1940)
as Josephine Weaver Allen (uncredited)

Never a Dull Moment (1950)
as Jean

The Female Animal (1958)
as Nurse

The Spider's Web (1938)
as Mason's Secretary

Ring Around the Moon (1936)
as Kay Duncan

First Monday in October (1981)
as Storekeeper

Weekend of Terror (1970)
as Sister Nadine

No Sad Songs for Me (1950)
as Louise Spears

Women in Prison (1938)
as Maggie

The Clay Pigeon (1949)
as Nurse (uncredited)

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949)
as Mrs. Egan

Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
as Bridesmaid (uncredited)

Missing Girls (1936)
as Ann Jason

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941)
as Sheila Cobb

Time Out for Trouble (1938)
as Maisie

Pie a la Maid (1938)
as Mary

The Accused (1949)
as Miss Rice

Bombers B-52 (1957)
as Sylvia Slater (uncredited)

The FBI Story (1959)
as Mrs. Ballard (uncredited)

The Walls of Jericho (1948)
as Gossip (uncredited)

Her First Romance (1951)
Actor

Voice in the Mirror (1958)
as Mrs. Devlin

Cast a Long Shadow (1959)
as Ma Calvert

Rusty Saves a Life (1949)
as Ethel Mitchell

Glamour for Sale (1940)
as Myrtle (uncredited)

Coast Guard (1939)
as Nurse (uncredited)

The Painted Hills (1951)
as Martha Blake

Way Down East (1935)
as Rosie

South of the Boudoir (1940)
as Mrs. Charley Chase

Once You Kiss a Stranger... (1969)
as Lee's Mother

Blue, White and Perfect (1942)
as Miss Hoffman

Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957)
as Sarah Devlin (uncredited)

The Failing of Raymond (1971)
as Bus Ticket Clerk (uncredited)

Her First Romance (1940)
as Student (uncredited)

My Dog Rusty (1948)
as Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

Variety Girl (1947)
as Hairdresser (uncredited)

The Crimson Key (1947)
as Paris Wood

I Love Lucy: The Movie (1953)
as Audience Member

The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974)
as Secretary

Riding High (1950)
as Nurse (uncredited)

Advice to the Lovelorn (1981)
as Ada Wells

So This Is Love (1953)
as Mrs. Moore

Mr. Wise Guy (1942)
as Dorothy Melton

The Bob Mathias Story (1954)
as Lillian Mathias

Old Acquaintance (1943)
as Music Store Saleslady (uncredited)

Three Sappy People (1939)
as The Countess (uncredited)

The Kid from Kansas (1941)
as Julie 'Smitty' Smith

The Macahans (1976)
as Grandma

Homicide Bureau (1939)
as Nurse

The Rawhide Trail (1958)
as Mrs. Cartwright

Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)
as Nurse

Girls Can Play (1937)
as Alice, Brophy's secretary

Palm Springs (1936)
as School Girl

Sue My Lawyer (1938)
as Anita Burton

The Eddie Cantor Story (1953)
as Lillian Edwards

Step Down to Terror (1958)
as Mrs. Duprez

Flying G-Men (1939)
as Hamilton's Secretary

Let's Sing Again (1936)
as Alice Alba

Girls of the Road (1940)
as Jerry

Road to the Big House (1947)
as Agnes Clark

Rosie! (1967)
as Lady on Witness Stand

Air Hostess (1949)
as Virginia Barton

Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)
as Margaret Chase (uncredited)

Beyond the Forest (1949)
as Edith Williams

Blind Alley (1939)
as Agnes

Rusty Leads the Way (1948)
as Ethel Mitchell

Henry Aldrich's Little Secret (1944)
as Helen Martin

The Man Who Lived Twice (1936)
as Nurse Cameron (uncredited)

Smashing the Spy Ring (1938)
as Madelon Martin

The Return of the Whistler (1948)
as Sybil

Slightly Dangerous (1943)
as Salesgirl (uncredited)

Here Come the Waves (1944)
as Ruth

Skinny the Moocher (1939)
as Ann

For the Love of Rusty (1947)
as Ethel Mitchell

The Hard Way (1943)
as Dorshka (Uncredited)

A Woman is the Judge (1939)
as Luella (uncredited)

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion (1977)
as Grandma Lundy

A Doggone Mixup (1938)
as Mrs. Langdon
Halfway to Hollywood (1938)
as Mrs. Kennedy

Sealed Verdict (1948)
as Ellie Blaine

The Rose Bowl Story (1952)
as Mrs. Addie Burke

My Sister Eileen (1942)
as Receptionist (uncredited)

Street of Chance (1942)
as Miss Peabody

All the Way Home (1981)
as Great-Aunt Sadie

The Man Who Turned to Stone (1957)
as Mrs. Ford

Devil's Playground (1937)
as Bit Part

Roughly Speaking (1945)
as Alice Abbott

The Brass Bottle (1964)
as Martha Kenton

The Lady Objects (1938)
as Miss Hollins

Rattling Romeo (1939)
as Judy

True to Life (1943)
as Radio Kitty (uncredited)

Life Begins At 17 (1958)
as Virginia Peck
City Story (1954)
Actor

Violent Road (1958)
as Edith Miller

Rio Grande (1938)
as Jean Andrews

It's All Yours (1937)
as Stewardess (uncredited)

Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959)
as Bess Monahan

Gambling House (1950)
as Della

Hazard (1948)
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

New York Town (1941)
as Demonstrator in Store (uncredited)

No Minor Vices (1948)
as Mrs. Faraday (uncredited)

The Kid from Cleveland (1949)
as Emily Novak

Crazy Times (1981)
as Mrs. Keagan

Scarecrow (1972)
as Mistress Dodge

Untamed (1940)
as 1st Nurse (uncredited)

One Last Fling (1949)
as Vera Thompson

Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943)
as Matilda Brown

Extortion (1938)
as Margie Blake

Lonely Heart Bandits (1950)
as Nancy Crane

Second Chance (1947)
as Doris Greene

Seven Were Saved (1947)
as Mrs Rollin Hartley

Bad Boy (1935)
as Telegraph Clerk

One Exciting Adventure (1934)
as Girl

Young and Dangerous (1957)
as Mrs. Clara Clinton

The Little Red Schoolhouse (1936)
as Mary Burke

The Family Nobody Wanted (1975)
as Mrs. Kimberly

The Chump Takes a Bump (1939)
as Minnie Chase

The Hostage (1967)
as Miss Mabry

Manhattan Heartbeat (1940)
as Shop Girl's Friend

Smith of Minnesota (1942)
as (uncredited)

Holiday in Havana (1949)
as Marge Henley
Rusty's Birthday (1949)
as Ethel Mitchell

Blondes and Blunders (1940)
as Lillie Catlett

Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
as Reporter

Red Lights Ahead (1936)
as Mary Wallace
Highway Patrol (1938)
as Estelle

Criminals Within (1941)
as Linda
A Fair Chance (1954)
as Human resources officer

Many Sappy Returns (1938)
as Mary

The Mind Needer (1938)
as Mrs. Chase





