Ann Savage

Ann Savage

1921-02-19 – 2008-12-25 (age 87) Columbia, South Carolina, USA
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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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Fire with Fire
Fire with Fire

1986

as Sister Harriet

Detour
Detour

1945

as Vera

The More the Merrier
The More the Merrier

1943

as Miss Dalton (uncredited)

Satan's Cradle
Satan's Cradle

1949

as Lil

Pier 23
Pier 23

1951

as Ann Harmon

Lady Chaser
Lady Chaser

1946

as Inez Marie Polk/Palmer

Klondike Kate
Klondike Kate

1943

as Kathleen O'Day

Dangerous Blondes
Dangerous Blondes

1943

as Erika McCormick

The Unwritten Code
The Unwritten Code

1944

as Mary Lee Norris

Footlight Glamour
Footlight Glamour

1943

as Vicki Wheeler

Two-Man Submarine
Two-Man Submarine

1944

as Pat Benson

The Last Crooked Mile
The Last Crooked Mile

1946

as Sheila Kennedy

Renegade Girl
Renegade Girl

1946

as Jean Shelby

Midnight Manhunt
Midnight Manhunt

1945

as Sue Gallagher

Apology for Murder
Apology for Murder

1945

as Toni Kirkland

My Winnipeg
My Winnipeg

2008

as Mother

Passport to Suez
Passport to Suez

1943

as Valerie King

Woman They Almost Lynched