
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

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

Them! (1954)
as Child Psychiatrist

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

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

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

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

Topaz (1969)
as Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)

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

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

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

Mr. Skeffington (1944)
as Maria (uncredited)

The High and the Mighty (1954)
as Clara Joseph

The Arrangement (1969)
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

Wildcats (1986)
as Mrs. Chatham

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

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

The Gumball Rally (1976)
as Mrs. Ontley

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

The Desperate Hours (1955)
as Mrs. Walling

Warlock (1959)
as Mrs. Richardson (uncredited)

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

Cast a Long Shadow (1959)
as Ma Calvert

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

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
as Receptionist (uncredited)

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

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

Kitten with a Whip (1964)
as Mavis Varden

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

Day of the Badman (1958)
as Martha Mordigan

Magic Town (1947)
as Mrs. Weaver

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

First Monday in October (1981)
as Storekeeper

Holiday (1938)
as Kitchen Maid (uncredited)

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

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

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

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

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

Penny Serenade (1941)
as Dotty

Where Love Has Gone (1964)
as Mrs. Geraghty

All Night Long (1981)
as Grandmother Gibbons

The Snake Pit (1948)
as Valerie (uncredited)

Start Cheering (1938)
as Green's Secretary

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

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

My Favorite Brunette (1947)
as Miss Rogers

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

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

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

The Last Angry Man (1974)
as Nurse Whitbread

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

Joy Ride (1958)
as Grace Renny

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

Blondie (1938)
as Elsie Hazlip

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

The Carpetbaggers (1964)
as Reporter (uncredited)

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

Nothing Sacred (1937)
as Telephone Girl (uncredited)

The Accused (1949)
as Miss Rice

So This Is Love (1953)
as Mrs. Moore

Pride of the Marines (1945)
as Ella Mae Merchant

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

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

Blue, White and Perfect (1942)
as Miss Hoffman

Voice in the Mirror (1958)
as Mrs. Devlin

Pitfall (1948)
as Maggie

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

Rusty Saves a Life (1949)
as Ethel Mitchell

Step Down to Terror (1958)
as Mrs. Duprez

Little Mo (1978)
as Aunt Gert

The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974)
as Secretary

The Hired Hand (1971)
as Mrs. Sorenson

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

Advice to the Lovelorn (1981)
as Ada Wells

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

Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
as Clara Randolph

I Love a Soldier (1944)
as Jenny Butler

Flood! (1977)
as Emma Fisher

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

The Return of the Whistler (1948)
as Sybil

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

No Sad Songs for Me (1950)
as Louise Spears

Paula (1952)
as Mrs. Smith

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

The Clay Pigeon (1949)
as Nurse (uncredited)

Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959)
as Bess Monahan

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

The Female Animal (1958)
as Nurse

Girls of the Road (1940)
as Jerry

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

The Eddie Cantor Story (1953)
as Lillian Edwards

Tomahawk (1951)
as Mrs. Carrington

The Priest Killer (1971)
as Harriet Miles

Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
as Waitress (uncredited)

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

Never a Dull Moment (1950)
as Jean

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

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

Dead of Night (1977)
as Mrs. McCauley

Ring Around the Moon (1936)
as Kay Duncan

Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)
as Nurse

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

The Kid from Cleveland (1949)
as Emily Novak

Here Come the Waves (1944)
as Ruth

Untamed (1940)
as 1st Nurse (uncredited)

The Family Nobody Wanted (1975)
as Mrs. Kimberly

Violent Road (1958)
as Edith Miller

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

The Werewolf of Woodstock (1975)
as Dora

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

Coast Guard (1939)
as Nurse (uncredited)

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

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

Fear in the Night (1947)
as Lil Herlihy

The Brass Bottle (1964)
as Martha Kenton

Time Out for Trouble (1938)
as Maisie

I'll Take Romance (1937)
as Minor Role

Rusty Leads the Way (1948)
as Ethel Mitchell

Slightly Dangerous (1943)
as Salesgirl (uncredited)

The Little Red Schoolhouse (1936)
as Mary Burke

Beyond the Forest (1949)
as Edith Williams

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

For the Love of Rusty (1947)
as Ethel Mitchell

Life Begins At 17 (1958)
as Virginia Peck
Cold Turkey (1940)
as Mrs. Langdon

Glamour for Sale (1940)
as Myrtle (uncredited)

The Rawhide Trail (1958)
as Mrs. Cartwright

Crazy Times (1981)
as Mrs. Keagan

My Sister Eileen (1942)
as Receptionist (uncredited)

Variety Girl (1947)
as Hairdresser (uncredited)

Pie a la Maid (1938)
as Mary

Let's Sing Again (1936)
as Alice Alba

Smashing the Spy Ring (1938)
as Madelon Martin

I Love Lucy: The Movie (1953)
as Audience Member
The Son of Rusty (1947)
as Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

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

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

Sealed Verdict (1948)
as Ellie Blaine

The Macahans (1976)
as Grandma

Way Down East (1935)
as Rosie

The Hard Way (1943)
as Dorshka (Uncredited)

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

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

Air Hostess (1949)
as Virginia Barton

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

The Painted Hills (1951)
as Martha Blake

City Streets (1938)
as Nurse (uncredited)

Rattling Romeo (1939)
as Judy

Mr. Wise Guy (1942)
as Dorothy Melton

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

Road to the Big House (1947)
as Agnes Clark

Gambling House (1950)
as Della

Young and Dangerous (1957)
as Mrs. Clara Clinton

Missing Girls (1936)
as Ann Jason

Women in Prison (1938)
as Maggie

The Bob Mathias Story (1954)
as Lillian Mathias

Street of Chance (1942)
as Miss Peabody

Her First Romance (1951)
Actor

The Crimson Key (1947)
as Paris Wood

Rosie! (1967)
as Lady on Witness Stand

A Doggone Mixup (1938)
as Mrs. Langdon

Hazard (1948)
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

Blind Alley (1939)
as Agnes

The Hostage (1967)
as Miss Mabry
Highway Patrol (1938)
as Estelle

Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
as Reporter

Weekend of Terror (1970)
as Sister Nadine

Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943)
as Matilda Brown

Roughly Speaking (1945)
as Alice Abbott

Seven Were Saved (1947)
as Mrs Rollin Hartley

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

Riding High (1950)
as Nurse (uncredited)

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

Manhattan Heartbeat (1940)
as Shop Girl's Friend

Extortion (1938)
as Margie Blake

Devil's Playground (1937)
as Bit Part

The Chump Takes a Bump (1939)
as Minnie Chase

Scarecrow (1972)
as Mistress Dodge

Homicide Bureau (1939)
as Nurse

The Lady Objects (1938)
as Miss Hollins

Her First Romance (1940)
as Student (uncredited)

Palm Springs (1936)
as School Girl

Bad Boy (1935)
as Telegraph Clerk

Criminals Within (1941)
as Linda

My Dog Rusty (1948)
as Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

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

Sue My Lawyer (1938)
as Anita Burton

One Last Fling (1949)
as Vera Thompson

Lonely Heart Bandits (1950)
as Nancy Crane

Holiday in Havana (1949)
as Marge Henley
Rusty's Birthday (1949)
as Ethel Mitchell
City Story (1954)
Actor

Skinny the Moocher (1939)
as Ann

The Mind Needer (1938)
as Mrs. Chase

Many Sappy Returns (1938)
as Mary

One Exciting Adventure (1934)
as Girl

Smith of Minnesota (1942)
as (uncredited)
Halfway to Hollywood (1938)
as Mrs. Kennedy

Second Chance (1947)
as Doris Greene

Rio Grande (1938)
as Jean Andrews

Red Lights Ahead (1936)
as Mary Wallace

Blondes and Blunders (1940)
as Lillie Catlett
A Fair Chance (1954)
as Human resources officer





