After graduating from Smith College, Bridgers became a public school teacher and part of the Selective Service Bureau. She later opened her own gift shop and also became the president of the Raleigh Community Players. She sold her gift shop in 1923 and then moved to New York where she attended drama school. For a while after 1923, she gained success as a theater actress as understudy to Lynn Fontanne on Broadway in Dulcy. Her next two successful roles were in the plays Fall Guy and Broadway. The first play she wrote was Norma, then Coquette, which was made into a 1929 film Coquette. The Theatre Club awarded the play Coquette as "the most pleasing play of 1927–28". After leaving Broadway, she moved back to Raleigh in 1933 after traveling around Europe. She was a member of the board of the Literary and Historical Association, an editor of the Survey of Federal Records, wrote for the Raleigh Times, and wrote for the News and Observer. She helped form the Raleigh Little Theatre.
The Ann Preston Bridgers Papers, 1915-1946 are housed in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina. It contains "correspondence, writings, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and other materials" from Bridgers.[1]
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^ ab. UNC University Libraries. University of North Carolina. Archived from the original on 19 February 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
^"Bridgers, Ann Preston". NCPedia. Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. 1979. Retrieved October 20, 2018.
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