The Resume

(March 2, 1919-December 17, 2009)
Birth Name is Phyllis Flora Isley
Acted in 'New Frontier (1939),' 'Love Letters (1945),' 'Madame Bovary (1949),' 'Carrie (1952),' 'Tender Is the Night (1962)' and 'The Towering Inferno (1974)'
Board of Director 'Norton Simon Museum'

Why she might be annoying:

She wore pin-curl hairdo's.
David O. Selznick felt he could mold her into the proper kind of Hollywood actress.
She divorced one of her husbands to marry David O. Selznick.
She attempted suicide.
She married three times.
She used to model and denied it to a famous photographer.
The angry photographer refused to capture her portrait, causing her to whine about it.
During childhood she worked the ticket booth and refreshment stand for her parents' theater company.

Why she might not be annoying:

She won the 1943 Oscar for Best Actress 'The Song of Bernadette.'
Both of her sons are actors.
She had to cope when her daughter committed suicide.
She worked with several mental health organizations.
She attended New York State's American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Her parents were vaudeville performers.

Credit: Skunk Butt

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• AFI’s 100 Years … 100 Passions [Couples] (Ranked: 85)
• Appeared in Yellow Face
• Best Actress Oscar Winners (Ranked: 1943)
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [March] (Ranked: 3021919)
• Charlton Heston’s Leading Ladies
• Edith Head Models
• Ernst Lubitsch Films
• Fred Astaire’s Dance Partners
• Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress [Drama] (Ranked: 1943)
• Harvard Lampoon's Worst Actress of the Year (Ranked: 1956)
• Humphrey Bogart's Leading Ladies
• I Attended American Academy of Dramatic Arts
• I Attended Michael Jackson's 30th Anniversary [2001]
• I Died in 2009 (Ranked: 90)
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[J-L]
• I Have Breast Cancer
• I Lived in Malibu [Colonyites]
• I Married in 1971
• I Portrayed a Manic Pixie Dream Girl
• I Portrayed a Nun
• I Portrayed a Nurse
• I Portrayed an Amnesiac
• I Won My First Oscar Before Turning 30 (Ranked: 25)
• Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority
• My Character Was Fictionally Raped
• Norman Rockwell Portraits
• One of My Kids Committed Suicide
• People who Have Similar Names on Am I Annoying (Ranked: 52)
• Profiles 7501-7750 (Ranked: 7728)
• Rick Rubin Produced My Album
• Skunk Butt/Rebecca's Profiles [Series 4]
• Smith Versus Jones
• Sour Apple Award (Ranked: 1947)
• Towering Inferno [1974]
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 20091217)
• World War II Pin-up Girls

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 12 Votes: 8.33% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 17 Votes: 64.71% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 54 Votes: 48.15% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 29 Votes: 68.97% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 61 Votes: 77.05% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 17 Votes: 41.18% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 97 Votes: 45.36% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 71 Votes: 42.25% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 21 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 22 Votes: 59.09% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 39 Votes: 51.28% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 179 Votes: 36.31% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 71 Votes: 32.39% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 200 Votes: 45.00% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 136 Votes: 47.79% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 225 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 265 Votes: 49.43% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 411 Votes: 58.88% Annoying