Ann Savage
Actor
Biography
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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, and in 1986, she returned to film with an appearance in Fire with Fire (AKA Captive Hearts) and as a guest on the television series Saved by the Bell.
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."
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Filmography
My Winnipeg
as Mother 2008
The More the Merrier
as Miss Dalton (uncredited) 1943
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Vera in Detour (archive footage) 2004
Fire with Fire
as Sister Harriet 1986
Woman They Almost Lynched
as Glenda 1953
Apology for Murder
as Toni Kirkland 1945
Midnight Manhunt
as Sue Gallagher 1945
The Last Crooked Mile
as Sheila Kennedy 1946
The Spider
as Florence Cain 1945
Pier 23
as Ann Harmon 1951
Renegade Girl
as Jean Shelby 1946
One Dangerous Night
as Vivian 1943
After Midnight with Boston Blackie
as Betty Barnaby 1943
Passport to Suez
as Valerie King 1943
Dangerous Blondes
as Erika McCormick 1943
Murder in Times Square
as Miss Ruth 1943