Ann Southern (Above) born Harriette Arlene Lake on January 22, 1909, in Valley City, North Dakota. Died March 15, 2001, in Ketchum, Idaho. Worked in extra roles for six years before landing a part in Columbia's "The Party's Over" in 1934. Except for a role in Eddie Cantor's popular "Kid Millions" in 1934, she didn't have a success of her own until the 1939 "Maisie" which spawned nine sequels through 1947. During the fifties and into the 1960s she worked with success in television, and her last role onscreen was in the 1987 "Whales of August" in which she appeared with Lillian Gish and Bette Davis. Originally trained as a singer, Southern's mother was a professional singer, and her younger sister (Bonnie Lake) wrote a number of popular pop songs, such as "Sandman." Ann Southern once said of her old films "... you know something? I'm always amazed at what a lousy actress I was. I guess in the old days we just got by on glamour."