Overview
- Multiple outlets reported that Ann Blyth died Wednesday at age 98, with KABC reporter George Pennacchio saying she died peacefully of natural causes.
- Blyth earned an Academy Award nomination as a teenager for her role as Veda in Michael Curtiz’s Mildred Pierce, the part that defined her public reputation.
- Five days after finishing Mildred Pierce in 1945, she broke her back in a sledding accident and spent months in a body cast and wheelchair, a setback sources say that slowed her early momentum.
- She appeared in more than 30 films between 1944 and 1957 and later worked on stage, television and in commercials, including a series of Hostess snack‑cake ads that kept her in the public eye.
- Blyth was married to Dr. James McNulty from 1953 until his death in 2007 and is survived by five children as well as grandchildren and great‑grandchildren, and her death has prompted renewed interest and retrospectives on her Golden Age work.