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Ann Savage is a Actor American born on 19 february 1921 at Columbia (USA)
Ann Savage (February 19, 1921 – December 25, 2008) was an American film and television actress. She is best-remembered as the cigarette-puffing femme fatale in the critically acclaimed film noir Detour (1945), and starred in more than twenty B movies between 1943 and 1946.
Effectively leaving the film business in the mid-1950s, Savage made occasional appearances on television and worked for industrial and inspirational film producers during the 1950s–1970s. She made a number of live appearances at film festivals, especially for screenings of Detour.
In 2007, she was cast by director Guy Maddin as his mother in My Winnipeg, "a part that had been tipped to bring her an Academy Award and which introduced her to a legion of new fans".
After her husband's death, Savage returned to Los Angeles to be near her mother, and "took odd jobs to finance flying lessons", becoming a licensed pilot in 1979. Her manager quoted her as saying that she "loved flying because it put her 'closer to God and Bert'." She also became "part-owner of a small tool company", and later "took a secretarial course" and became "a docket clerk receptionist and then a secretary at the law firm [Loeb & Loeb] in Los Angeles".
Having grown up and worked through the latter part of Hollywood's 'Golden Age', Savage was very keen on the "preservation and celebration of all things Hollywood", becoming a volunteer and advisory board member of Hollywood Heritage.
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Ann Savage
Birth name Bernice Maxine Lyon
Nationality USA
Birth 19 february 1921 at Columbia (USA)
Death 25 december 2008 (at 87 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 19 february 1921 at Columbia (USA)
Death 25 december 2008 (at 87 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Effectively leaving the film business in the mid-1950s, Savage made occasional appearances on television and worked for industrial and inspirational film producers during the 1950s–1970s. She made a number of live appearances at film festivals, especially for screenings of Detour.
In 2007, she was cast by director Guy Maddin as his mother in My Winnipeg, "a part that had been tipped to bring her an Academy Award and which introduced her to a legion of new fans".
Biography
Savage was "a popular World War II pin-up model, an Esquire centerfold shot by Hurrell [and] a tireless barnstorming seller of War Bonds on two tours". She was briefly married to Clark Tennesen between 1939 and 1941, before marrying her agent (and the Max Reinhardt school manager) Burt (or Bert) D'Armand c. 1942–45. The two lived in New York throughout the latter part of the 1950s and the 1960s until his sudden death in 1969.After her husband's death, Savage returned to Los Angeles to be near her mother, and "took odd jobs to finance flying lessons", becoming a licensed pilot in 1979. Her manager quoted her as saying that she "loved flying because it put her 'closer to God and Bert'." She also became "part-owner of a small tool company", and later "took a secretarial course" and became "a docket clerk receptionist and then a secretary at the law firm [Loeb & Loeb] in Los Angeles".
Having grown up and worked through the latter part of Hollywood's 'Golden Age', Savage was very keen on the "preservation and celebration of all things Hollywood", becoming a volunteer and advisory board member of Hollywood Heritage.
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My Winnipeg (2008)
, 1h20Directed by Guy Maddin
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Fantasy, Historical
Actors Guy Maddin, Darcy Fehr, Ann Savage
Roles Mother
Rating74%
Although ostensibly a documentary, My Winnipeg contains a series of fictional episodes and an overall story trajectory concerning the author-narrator-character "Guy Maddin" and his desire to produce the film as a way to finally leave/escape the city of Winnipeg. "Guy Maddin" is played by Darcy Fehr but voiced by Maddin himself (in narration): Fehr appears groggily trying to rouse himself from sleep aboard a jostling train as Maddin wonders aloud "What if?" What if he were able to actually rouse from the sleepy life he lives in Winnipeg and escape? Maddin decides that the only possible escape would be to "film my way out," thus motivating the creation of the "docu-fantasia" already underway.
Fire with Fire (1986)
, 1h43Directed by Duncan Gibbins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Craig Sheffer, Virginia Madsen, Kari Wuhrer, Jon Polito, Tim Russ, D. B. Sweeney
Roles sœur Harriet
Rating63%
In this fact-based adolescent melodrama, Joe Fisk is a juvenile delinquent who falls in love with Lisa Taylor, a beautiful Catholic girl's school student, in an Oregon forest. The two meet by accident when the troubled young man stumbles upon her while being chased by his peers in a training exercise, and sees the lovely girl floating in a small lake as she works on a photography assignment, recreating the Pre-Raphaelite painting Ophelia by John Everett Millais. The two are immediately drawn to each other, but neither of their custodians encourage contact with the opposite sex, and when their relationship is discovered there is trouble all around, forcing the young lovers to flee. The question then remains: Will they be able to escape the law and other authorities long enough to find happiness?
Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)
, 1h30Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Musical, Western
Actors John Lund, Brian Donlevy, Audrey Totter, Joan Leslie, Ben Cooper, James Brown
Roles Glenda
Rating64%
Civil War factions along the Arkansas-Missouri border are warned by Border City's mayor, Delilah Courtney, to stay five miles from her neutral town or risk arrest. Quantrill, a former Confederate officer gone rogue, brings his gang of marauders to the region, including wife Kate, who he kidnapped from Border City two years ago.
Satan's Cradle (1949)
, 1hDirected by Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Leo Carrillo, Duncan Renaldo, Ann Savage, Douglas Fowley, Byron Foulger, Claire Carleton
Roles Lil
Rating57%
This script must be run from the command line
Jungle Flight (1947)
, 1h7Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Robert Lowery, Ann Savage, Barton MacLane, Douglas Fowley, Robert Kent, Curt Bois
Roles Laurey Roberts
Rating57%
Renegade Girl (1946)
, 1h5Directed by William Berke
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Edward Brophy, Ann Savage, Jack Holt, Alan Curtis, Harry Cording, Russell Wade
Roles Jean Shelby
Rating48%
Taking place in rural Missouri, 1864, the area is far from the front lines and has been torn apart by partisan and guerrilla warfare, leaving it at the mercy of outlaws. Jean Shelby (Ann Savage) comes from a family of southern sympathizers, herself included. She gets information from Union soldiers and provides it to her brother with hopes of helping the confederacy. The film begins with Shelby riding on the road with her horse, as she passes flaming ruins she is approached by some Union troops who demand they meet with their superior officer, Major Barker (Jack Holt). Shelby attempts to flee, but is corned by more northern soldiers and she complies to meet with Major Barker.
Detour (1945)
, 1h8Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Esther Howard, Claudia Drake, Don Brodie, Harry Strang
Roles Vera
Rating72%
Piano player Al (Tom Neal) is bitter about having to work in a New York nightclub. After his girlfriend Sue (Claudia Drake) leaves to seek fame in Hollywood, he decides to join her. With little money, he has to hitchhike his way across the country.
Scared Stiff (1945)
, 1h5Directed by Frank McDonald
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror
Actors Jack Haley, Ann Savage, Barton MacLane, Veda Ann Borg, Roger Pryor, George E. Stone
Roles Sally Warren
Rating49%
Not the sharpest tool in the shed, chess reporter Larry Elliot is confronted with an ultimatum if he wants to keep his job as a newspaper reporter. He is forced to cover a big harvest festival held at a winery in Grape City. At the paper he is known to miss out on bigger stories to cover more trivial events of minor interest.
The Spider (1945)
, 1h3Directed by Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Richard Conte, Kurt Kreuger, Faye Marlowe, John Harvey, Martin Kosleck, Mantan Moreland
Roles Florence Cain
Rating59%
A private detective is pursued by both police and a mysterious killer.
Midnight Manhunt (1945)
, 1h4Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors William Gargan, Ann Savage, Leo Gorcey, George Zucco, Paul Hurst, Don Beddoe
Roles Sue Gallagher
Rating53%
Midnight Manhunt begins with the shooting death of a master criminal who expires in a wax museum. Reporter Sue Gallagher (Ann Savage) is first on the scene, but she is soon in competition with her boyfriend, fellow reporter Pete Willis (William Gargan). The killer traps Sue in the wax museum when he returns there looking for the body. Leo Gorcey plays the caretaker of the wax museum.
Apology for Murder (1945)
, 1h7Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Ann Savage, Hugh Beaumont, Russell Hicks, Pierre Watkin, Sarah Padden, Eva Novak
Roles Toni Kirkland
Rating56%
Tough reporter Kenny Blake (Beaumont) falls in love with sultry Toni Kirkland (Savage) who is married to a much older man (Hicks). She seduces him to murder her husband. City editor Ward McKee (Brown), Kenny's boss and best friend, begins to pursue the tangled threads of the crime relentlessly and gradually closes the net on Kenny. In the end Tony and Kenny shoot each other. As he dies, Kenny types out his confession to the crime.
The More the Merrier (1943)
, 1h44Directed by George Stevens, Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines, Bruce Bennett, Frank Sully
Roles Miss Dalton (uncredited)
Rating75%
During World War II, retired millionaire Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn) arrives in Washington, D.C. as an adviser on the housing shortage and finds that his hotel suite will not be available for two days. He sees an ad for a roommate and talks the reluctant young woman, Connie Milligan (Jean Arthur), into letting him sublet half of her apartment. Comedy ensues when the two clumsily get in each other's way while arising and preparing for work. Connie makes things work by keeping to an exacting schedule, including eating breakfast and leaving for work at precise times. Then Dingle runs into Sergeant Joe Carter (Joel McCrea), who has no place to stay while he waits to be shipped overseas. Dingle generously rents him half of his half.
, 1h5Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Richard Lane, Ann Savage, George E. Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Cy Kendall
Roles Betty Barnaby
Rating63%
When "Diamond" Ed Barnaby (an uncredited Walter Baldwin) is paroled, he sets out to give $100,000 worth of diamonds to his daughter, Betty (Ann Savage). Aware that several shady characters know he has the jewels, he stashes them in a safe deposit box in the Arcade Building. Betty later receives a call asking her to meet him there, but he never shows up. She contacts her father's only real friend: Horatio Black, better known as Boston Blackie. He agrees to help and drops Betty off at the apartment of his wealthy friend, Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan), for safekeeping. His sidekick, "the Runt" (George E. Stone), has to postpone his wedding to statuesque bubble dancer Dixy Rose Blossom.
Passport to Suez (1943)
, 1h12Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Warren William, Sheldon Leonard, Ann Savage, Eric Blore, Lloyd Bridges, Sig Arno
Roles Valerie King
Rating61%
Michael Lanyard (Warren William), the Lone Wolf, agrees to go to Alexandria to help the Allied cause during World War II. There, he and his valet, Llewellyn Jameson (Eric Blore), are met by his old friend, nightclub owner Johnny Booth (Sheldon Leonard).
What a Woman (1943)
Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Willard Parker, Alan Dinehart, Sr., Ann Savage, Edward Fielding
Roles Jane Hughes
Rating64%
Henry Pepper (Brian Aherne), top writer for Knickerbocker magazine, is assigned to write a profile on Carol Ainsley (Rosalind Russell), who has been named the outstanding career woman of the year. Carol, a super agent and star-maker, has just scooped her competition by selling the movie rights to the romance novel Whirlwind and is spending a fortune to find the perfect actor to play the male lead. When Carol learns that the book's author, Anthony Street, may be the man to play his own hero, she searches him out and discovers that he is actually Professor Michael Cobb (Willard Parker) of Buxton College.