The Two Anns | Visiting with Huell Howser | KCET

Huell revisits French Garden Restaurant & Bistro in downtown Los Angeles, but this time, he brings along two very special lunch dates: Hollywood legends Ann Rutherford and Anne Jeffreys.
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[@piddles11]

I love old Hollywood! Such Glamour and Class!!!❤

[@YvonE5]

Rest their beautiful souls 😔Legends Ann, Anne & Huell ❤️

[@lanadale1479]

Loved Loved Loved this episode. Great ladies!

[@keithnichols7926]

In 2023 I'm seeing these three chatting at the French Garden, followed by the same scene, but with all of them absent, gone for good, leaving only three glasses of tea and our memories of a Hollywood that's gone forever. And it appears that the French Garden is gone, as well.

[@Hevynly1]

Oh, they should have made this interview at least twice as long. How gorgeous they both were even then! Such a treat! :)

[@PalmSpringsDiva1]

I was lucky enough to meet these two ladies on more than one occasion, talk a litle, and also meet June Haver, the FABulous Ann Miller, Phyllis Diller, Rhonda Fleming (incredibly beautiful even now). It was so exciting, I had seen them all in movies and Ann Miller on Broadway with Mickey Rooney in Sugar Babies, even had the tshirt and wish I still did. All of them so lovely; it was an exciting time around the year 2000 in Los Angeles.

[@PalmSpringsDiva1]

And, how could I forget to add that I had just moved to Palm Springs when I was fortunate enough to see and meet Huell, he was one of a kind; very handsome, tall and magnetic with the great voice and Southern accent. His shows did not receive the global respect they should have, but he was loved by his viewers and locals in Palm Springs who knew him personally. What a loss of a smart man with a body of tremendous work.

[@bethelle9099]

Wow! How fortunate were you!? I am a child of the fifties and sixties and was raised watching the old films with my mother who loved film. Phyllis Diller was such a hoot!!! Mickey Rooney, incredibly talented! Such a shame that his offspring ripped him off. And was not June Haver to die for!!!? The face of an angel! I am glad that she found a good man in MacMurray. He was a VERY lucky man to have June! I guess their daughters sold the estate to a winery. It may have been Gallo. I can't recall off hand. The only celebrity that I have met and been to his house was George Benson.... Super nice and incredibly beautiful in person. He didn't even look real!!! Have a good one!

[@stepawayful]

Hey @palmspringsdiva1 - meeting Ann Miller was one of the absolute high points of my time in LA. And now, I guess you're my PS neighbor!

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

Please tell us stories

[@bbb103]

According to IMDB this episode first aired June 24th 2010.

[@javimu111]

Makes sense because Anne Rutherford mentions that if anyone in 1939 "had told me that 71 years later 'Gone With The Wind'..." etc. So, yes, that would make it 2010.

[@MountainFisher]

Ann Jeffreys still was quite pretty. Lots of makeup, but still pretty. I remember watching Topper on TV. She was 94 when she died in 2017.

[@designsonyouinparis]

Absolutely delightful! Miss them both and Ann Miller! Thank you for posting.

[@JoeinSeattle.]

What a class in elegance & aging gracefully. 💙

[@ColleenDaumen2]

What a UNIQUE interview... Lunch in Hollywood with the stars of the golden age. Simply wonderful!!! Thank you so much ❤❤❤

[@rickriddle]

WoW! That is GREAT.... SO GLAD I SEEN THIS. LIFE IS ABOUT LIVING & FUN.

[@dosereviewschannel2230]

Rip to all 3 there

[@deesandiego]

What a hoot. Thank you for posting

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

...Anne Jeffreys had a stately yet modest colonial home, at 121 S. Bentley Ave. in Westwood; just below Sunset Blvd. She was a lovely and elegant woman...also a native of my home state of North Carolina. -Anne Jeffreys (1923-2017)

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

As was Ava

[@mmjhcb]

Thank you for this. I had never seen my cousin's (Bob Sterling's) house. Always an address with no visual. Lovely home.

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

...Robert Sterling & Anne Jeffreys had a stately yet modest colonial home, at 121 S. Bentley Ave. in Westwood; just below Sunset Blvd. I just yesterday watched your cousin Robert & wife Anne's joint appearance on Murder She Wrote...very handsome couple & so elegant!

[@javimu111]

This was GREAT!

[@ceciliamoreno7337]

This was just wonderful ❤

[@tinklvsme]

Their adorable!! 3-21

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

Ann Rutherford is awesome

[@donbrittsan9591]

In the immortal words of Huel Howser " That's Amazing! "

[@roberttelarket4934]

I saw this on PBS when it first aired. Since then both Ann's and Huell have passed on.

[@mohamadfaiz6935]

This episode was air in mid 2008 or early 2009

[@veggiedisease123]

Huell passed away before Ann Jefferys which makes me sad

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

Talk about G r a c e ....

[@beachbuddy8888]

What was the date of this lunch?

[@cmcb09]

dewey defarqua Ann Rutherford passed away in 2012 and had been homebound for the last almost a year of her life, so at least 2011 or before.

[@twalkertf]

Ann R. says GWTW 1939 and 71 years later.....puts this around 2010.

[@Sojourning_]

🌹🌹👍

[@wingnut049]

I recognized Jeffries but not Rutherford.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

She played Polly Benedict in Andy hardy and one of the sisters in gone with the wind

[@mickeybitsko1676]

Heuelll “hog the conversation “ howser at it again

[@danielstanwyck2812]

Both Ann and Anne are lovely and the "interviewer" is big boor.