The Truth About Chris Pine's Legendary Grandmother

Publish date: 2024-05-06

As Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen noted, "Universal [put Anne] under contract without a screen test" in 1939, and she continued to pick up roles in various projects and movies. She also worked as a pin-up girl, and as the Los Angeles Times noted, she "was voted the No. 1 pinup girl of World War II servicemen in 1943-44 by Yank magazine."

In that same Los Angeles Times piece, author and horror film expert Tom Weaver explained that Anne's near-universal appeal is what propelled her to stardom in the genre. "[T]o the fans of Universal horror films of the 1940s, Anne was one of the best and most popular leading ladies," Weaver told the outlet. "Anne was the spunky, bubbly, very American girl-next-door type — the stuff of instant crushes for these movies' mostly male audiences."

The Los Angeles Times pointed out that Anne eventually slowed down with the acting gigs after she got married and began to have children, which was typical of the times. The final role of her impressive, decades-spanning career arrived when she appeared alongside Michael Douglas in 1970's Adam at 6 AM.

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