Victoria Principal

She still works as an actress and producer, and has also created a line of skin care products and written three books about beauty and skin-care. On television, she portrayed Suzanne Pleshette's mother on the popular Bob Newhart Show during the 1970s. She left the show after nine years, and began her own production company, Victoria Principal Productions. On radio, Ann Rutherford replaced Penny Singleton as Blondie. She agreed - and then landed the role of Pamela Ewing on Dallas. 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. Principal planned on going to law school and later become a studio executive, but Aaron Spelling offered her one year's tuition to accept a role in the pilot of Fantasy Island. 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).

Four years later, disappointed with her career, she quit acting and for the next three years worked as an agent. 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)). Her first film was as a Mexican mistress in Paul Newman's The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. From 1937 until 1942, she portrayed Polly Benedict in the very successful Andy Hardy series. She studied at RADA in London, and moved to Los Angeles in 1971. She was loaned to Selznick International to appear as Careen O'Hara in Gone With The Wind (1939). She moved to New York, and worked as a model and actress. At MGM, she appeared in such films as A Christmas Carol (1938) and Pride and Prejudice (1940).

She enrolled at Miami-Dade Community College, and wanted to study chiropractic medicine, but serious injures in a car crash at age 18 made her refocus her energy on acting. Afterward, she was placed under contract with MGM. She acted in a commercial when five and began modeling in high school. Mascot merged with Republic Pictures, and Miss Rutherford soon established herself as a popular leading lady of Westerns with Gene Autry and John Wayne. Air Force, moved constantly, and she grew up in London, Florida, Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, and Georgia, among other places, attending 17 different schools. She began her film career in starring roles in Waterfront Lady for Mascot Pictures in 1935. Her father, a sergeant in the U.S. At an early age, she performed in various radio shows.

Victoria was the elder of two daughters born to Victor Principal and Ree Veal. Miss Rutherford was born in Toronto, Canada. She is also well-known for her line of cosmetic products. 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. Victoria Principal (born January 3, 1946 in Fukuoka, Japan) is an American actress, best known for her role as Pamela Barnes Ewing on the CBS nighttime drama Dallas from 1978 to 1987. It was in 1938 that her first notable role came as Andy Hardy's girlfriend, Polly Benedict, in Judge Hardy's Children. She appeared in seventeen films between 1935 and 1938.

Her first film role was in Melody Trail in 1935. She has had a long career starring and co-starring in films. Ann Rutherford (November 2, 1920 - ) is a Canadian/American actress in film, radio, and television.