Hollywood has lost one of its last Golden Age stars.

Ann Blyth, the actress best remembered for her unforgettable role as Joan Crawford’s vicious daughter in the 1945 classic “Mildred Pierce,” has died. She was 98.

Blyth died Wednesday of natural causes, according to media reports.

The brunette beauty became a Hollywood standout as a teenager, earning an Oscar nomination for playing Veda Pierce, the cold, spoiled and scheming daughter who helped make “Mildred Pierce” one of the most talked-about dramas of its era.

She was only 16 when she delivered the performance that would follow her for the rest of her life.

In the film, Blyth went toe-to-toe with Crawford, who played her long-suffering mother. Their explosive scenes helped turn the movie into a classic, with Blyth playing a daughter so cruel and calculating that audiences never forgot her.

At one point in the film, Blyth’s character even slaps Crawford’s character across the face, sending her crashing down.

“Get out before I kill you,” Crawford’s character fires back.

The movie became a major hit and earned several Academy Award nominations. Crawford won the Oscar for Best Actress, while Blyth was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Her co-star Eve Arden was also nominated in the same category.

Film historian Alan Rode once told the Los Angeles Times that Blyth’s performance was impossible to ignore.

“She just blew everybody away,” he said, calling her “the epitome of the film noir daughter from hell.”

Though “Mildred Pierce” became her most famous role, Blyth was far more than a one-film wonder.

She appeared in more than 30 movies during a career that stretched from 1944 to 1957, showing off a rare range that allowed her to move between dark dramas, sunny musicals, comedies and big-screen spectacles.

Her career, however, nearly came to a devastating halt after “Mildred Pierce” when she suffered a broken back in a toboggan accident. Still, Blyth returned to the screen and continued working with some of Hollywood’s biggest names.

She starred alongside Burt Lancaster in “Brute Force,” Mickey Rooney in “Killer McCoy,” Bing Crosby in “Top o’ the Morning,” Mario Lanza in “The Great Caruso,” Gregory Peck in “The World in His Arms,” Robert Mitchum in “One Minute to Zero” and Paul Newman in “The Helen Morgan Story.”

Blyth was also a trained singer with a lovely soprano voice, which made her a natural fit for musicals. She appeared in films such as “Kismet” and “The Student Prince,” and earlier in life had performed on the operatic stage.

One of her more unusual roles came in the 1948 comedy “Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid,” where she played — yes — a mermaid opposite William Powell.

Blyth’s final film role came in 1957 with “The Helen Morgan Story.” She later appeared on television, including roles in “The Twilight Zone” in 1964 and “Murder, She Wrote” in 1985.

Born Ann Marie Blyth on Aug. 16, 1928, in Mount Kisco, New York, she began training as a singer and actress as a child. Her path to Hollywood began when she was touring as a teenager with a Broadway play in Los Angeles and was given a screen test.

That test opened the door to a film career that placed her among the most memorable stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Blyth was married to James McNulty, with whom she had five children. McNulty died in 2007.

For generations of movie fans, Blyth will forever be remembered as the young actress who stood up to Joan Crawford on screen — and nearly stole the whole movie.