The Resume

(February 4, 1914-August 3, 1995)
Portrayed Eve Drake on 'Mr. Adams and Eve'
Was a lead actress in 1952 TV's 'Four Star Playhouse'
Acted in 'My Boys Are Good Boys (1978),' 'Food of the Gods (1976),' 'The Devil's Rain (1975),' 'While the City Sleeps (1956),' 'Women's Prison (1955),' 'Jennifer (1953),' 'Deep Valley (1947),' 'The Man I Love (1946),' 'Devotion (1946),' 'Pillow to Post (1945),' 'Forever and a Day (1943),' 'Moontide (1942),' 'Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942),' 'Ladies in Retirement (1941),' 'Out of the Fog (1941),' 'The Sea Wolf (1941),' 'High Sierra (1941),' 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939),' 'The Lady and the Mob (1939),' 'Let's Get Married (1937),' 'Artists & Models (1937),' 'Sea Devils (1937),' 'Anything Goes (1936),' 'Paris in Spring (1935),' 'Come on Marines (1934),' 'High Finance (1933),' 'I Lived with You (1933)' and 'Money for Speed (1933)'

Why she might be annoying:

She asked Paramount to release her from her contract (1937). It took her over a year to get another role.
She was typecast as a tough lady.
She retired at sixty (1995).
She suffered a stroke that lead to her death.
She was the poor man's Bette Davis.
She was three times divorced.
She failed a screen test for Alice in 'Alice in Wonderland (1933).'

Why she might not be annoying:

She was a pioneer female director (1949).
She directed TV episodes of 'The Fugitive,' 'The Twilight Zone,' 'Have Gun, Will Travel,' 'The Donna Reed Show,' 'Mr. Novak,' 'Dr. Kildare,' 'The Untouchables' and 'Gilligan's Island.'
Acting is in her blood; her parents performed in London's West End.
Since the seventeenth century, there has always been someone in her family acting.
She graduated London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
She was a Paramount contract starlet.
She won the New York Film Critics Best Actress Award for 'The Hard Way.'
She was a guest villain (Cassandra) on 'Batman.'

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Auditioned to Portray Scarlett O'Hara
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [February] (Ranked: 2041918)
• Ed Sullivan Show Guests
• Entertainers Loved by Lesbians
• Errol Flynn's Leading Ladies
• Film Noir Femme Fatales
• Four Star Television Founders
• Hollywood Canteen [1944]
• Humphrey Bogart's Leading Ladies
• I Appeared on Jerry Lewis' MDA Telethon [L]
• I Died in 1995 (Ranked: 81)
• I Had a Stroke [Cerebral Vascular Accident]
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[J-L]
• I Have Colon Cancer
• I Have Polio
• I Portrayed a Psycho-Biddy
• I Probably Banged Howard Hughes
• I'm Buried at Forest Lawn Glendale Cemetery [Calif]
• I've Got a Secret - Guests [1952-67]
• New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (Ranked: 1943)
• Next Stop: The Twilight Zone
• Profiles 6001-6250 (Ranked: 6216)
• Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress [Film] (Ranked: 1975)
• This is Your Life Honorees [L-Z]
• Up and Down Names
• Villains and Heroes of Batman

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 21 Votes: 52.38% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 24 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 354 Votes: 42.94% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 66 Votes: 53.03% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 18 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 59 Votes: 57.63% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 26 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 82 Votes: 48.78% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 33 Votes: 48.48% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 32 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 112 Votes: 44.64% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 127 Votes: 47.24% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 192 Votes: 42.71% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 261 Votes: 50.57% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 515 Votes: 47.57% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 266 Votes: 42.86% Annoying