Ann Sothern

• Birthplace: Valley City, North Dakota, USA
• Birthday: January 22, 1909

Classically trained singer who briefly appeared in several films from the late 1920s before making her mark on Broadway. Sothern joined Columbia in 1933 and coasted as a star of B vehicles there; she also teamed five times with Gene Raymond for a series of modest programmer comedies and musicals at RKO. Sothern signed on with MGM in 1939 and emerged as the slightly dizzy but wisecracking lead of the popular, long-running comedy-adventure series, "Maisie." She also went on to enliven a number of musical comedies (even though she was mi…more