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Ann Sothern (born Harriette Arlene Lake) was an actress from the 1920s to the 1980s. She had small uncredited showgirl-like parts from 1927 to 1933, and then she started getting much better roles, and she was a leading lady in the 1930s, and stayed a top star through the 1950s. Some of her movies include: A Letter to Three Wives, Footlight Parade, The Best Man, The Whales Of August (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and scores of others, and she is also well remembered from the "Private Secretary" and "The Ann Sothern Show" TV series in the 1950s. She passed away in 2001 at the age of 92.

Important Added Info: Note that this is one of a special set of 25 "color-glos" 11" x 14" portrait stills created by MGM in 1941 (see below for what "color-glos" means). They took wonderful portraits by top Hollywood photographers of their top stars (some had been taken prior to 1941, and were re-used at this time) and they put them into this special set of portraits, each of which has a facsimile autograph that is within the printing of the still (the still has not been personally autographed). THESE ARE THE NICEST SUCH PORTRAITS I HAVE EVER SEEN! I have seen a tiny number of these over the past decades, but I was never aware that there was an entire set of them, until a consignor surfaced with this set, which was mailed to a theater in an MGM envelope. We don't know the exact date of these stills, but it seems extremely likely that they are from 1941, both based on the stars pictured, and their ages, and also because Greta Garbo was included, and she made her final movie in 1941. We are auctioning each of the 25 in its own individual auction. This is a likely once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire any or all of these wonderful portraits. Note that on a few of them, we were able to identify the photographer who took the image, and on those we put that information at the start of this text. But we are certain that all of them are from "name" Hollywood photographers, and we ask anyone who knows who took the unidentified ones to please share that information with us! More about "color glos" stills: they are printed on a photo type of paper and have a glossier front, with more vivid colors. This is something the studios experimented with in the late 1930s and early 1940s, for both 8x10 stills and 11x14 stills, and it was primarily used with the very best movies, including Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Citizen Kane..

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