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Dorothy Anne Todd (24 January 1907, Hartford, Cheshire – 6 May 1993, London) was an English actress and producer.
She was born in Hartford, Cheshire and was educated at St.
Winifrid's School, Eastbourne.
She became a popular actress from appearing in such films as Perfect Strangers (1945) (as a nurse) and The Seventh Veil (1945) (as a troubled concert pianist).
She is perhaps best known to American audiences as Gregory Peck's long-suffering wife in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947).
She later produced a series of travel films.
Her autobiography is entitled The Eighth Veil, an allusion to the film which made her a star in Britain.
Todd was known as the "pocket Garbo" for her diminutive, blond beauty.
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