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Ann Rutherford (November 2, 1920 -  ) is a
Canada|Canadian/United States|American actress in
film, radio, and television.  She has had a long
career starring and co-starring in films.  

Her first film role was in Melody Trail in 1935. 
She appeared in seventeen films between 1935 and
1938.  It was in 1938 that her first notable role
came as Andy Hardy's girlfriend, Polly Benedict,
in Judge Hardy's Children.  In the long-running,
Academy Award-winning Andy Hardy film series, she
played Polly twelve times, with the last
appearance being in Andy Hardy's Double Life in
1942.

Miss Rutherford was born in Toronto, Canada.  At
an early age, she performed in various radio
shows. She began her film career in starring roles
in Waterfront Lady for Mascot Pictures in 1935. 
Mascot merged with Republic Pictures, and Miss
Rutherford soon established herself as a popular
leading lady of Westerns with Gene Autry and John
Wayne.  Afterward, she was placed under contract
with Metro Goldwyn Mayer|MGM.  At MGM, she
appeared in such films as A Christmas Carol (1938)
and Pride and Prejudice (1940).  She was loaned to
Selznick International to appear as Careen O'Hara
in Gone With The Wind (1939).

From 1937 until 1942, she  portrayed Polly
Benedict in the very successful Andy Hardy series.
 She also starred in a series of mystery/comedies
with Red Skelton (Whistling in the Dark (1941),
Whistling in Dixie (1942), and Whistling in
Brooklyn (1943)).

She left MGM to freelance in the early 1940s,
starring in such films as Orchestra Wives (1942)
(with the Glen Miller Orchestra), Two O'Clock
Courage (1945) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
(1947).  

She retired from films in 1950, but returned to
her old studio in 1972 to make They Only Kill
Their Masters on the old Andy Hardy set.

On radio, Ann Rutherford replaced Penny Singleton
as Blondie.

On television, she portrayed Suzanne Pleshette's
mother on the popular Bob Newhart Show during the
1970s.