Anna Lee Movies
Born Joanna Winnifrith, Anna Lee was a petite, charming, blond British actress. At age 14 she ran away from home to join a circus. After brief stage experience she began appearing in British films in 1932, playing leads and supporting roles; in 1940 she moved to Hollywood and began making films there. She is best remembered as Bronwyn Morgan,
Roddy McDowall's sister-in-law, in
How Green was My Valley (1941). Rarely onscreen after the late '60s, she had a regular role as Lila Quartermaine on the TV soap opera
General Hospital. She married and divorced director
Robert Stevenson. She was the widow of novelist/playwright/poet Robert Nathan and the mother of actors
Jeffrey Byron and
Venetia Stevenson. ~ All Movie Guide
