In Remembrance: Anne Gwynne

     Character actress Anne Gwynne, who appeared in such films as Black Friday (1940, with Boris Karloff) and as Princess Sonja in the 1940 serial Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe has passed away on Monday March 31, 2003. She was 84.

     Born Marguerite Gwynne Trice in Waco, Texas, she studied at Stephens College in Missouri. When her father, a wealthy clothing manufacturer, moved the family to Los Angeles, the former Miss San Antonio got work as a model for Catalina swimsuits. She also began acting in regional theatre productions where she was discovered by a Universal talent scout. She signed with the studio in 1939.

     She also appeared in such films as The Black Cat (1940), House of Frankenstein (1944), Murder in the Blue Room (1944), and the 1940 serial The Green Hornet. She played Tess Truehart to Ralph Byrd’s Dick Tracy in 1947’s Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome.

     She sited her favorite films as The Black Cat, the 1942 Abbott and Costello comedy Ride `Em Cowboy and Men of Texas (1942) with Robert Stack.

     Gwynne also appeared in the television’s first filmed dramatic series, Public Prosecutor, from 1947-48.

     She made her final appearance in a motion picture in 1970, cast as Michael Douglas' mother in Adam at 6 A.M.