Ann-Margret

Ann-Margret (Valsjöbyn, 28 april 1941) is an American actress, singer and dancer, originating from Sweden.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == Ann-Margret was born Ann-Margret Olsson as in Sweden, the daughter of Gustav Olsson and Anna Aronsson. She moved with her family to the United States when she was a child. There she grew up in Wilmette and was naturalized in 1949 to American.
 * 2 Filmography
 * 2.1 Film
 * 2.2 Tv

Ann-Margret was discovered by George Burns when she sang in a nightclub. In 1961 she got a contract with RCA, but that was not a success. The studio wanted to let her break through as the female Elvis Presley and let her sing the single Heartbreak Hotel . They got a small hit, I Just Don't understand. After the only successful album The Beauty and the Beard to have released in 1964, her contract with RCA ended in 1966.

Ann-Margret got her breakthrough in her film career in 1961, when she next to Bette Davis, Glenn Ford and Hope Lange appeared in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles.This was followed by a supporting role in the remake of the musical State Fair in 1962.

Ann-Margret In 1963 was a great Star, when she Kim McAfee, one of the main characters, played in Bye Bye Birdie (a movie based on the Elvis-mania at the time). She was just better known when she during the filming of her next film, Viva Las Vegas, got an affair with fellow Elvis Presley, who, at the time, had a relationship with Priscilla Presley. The affair received a lot of attention in the media. Despite the fact that Presley the affair ended, the two remained good friends until Presleys death.

In 1963 they granted her voice as "Ann-Margrock" on an episode of The Flintstones. Decades later, she sang the title song for The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas .

In addition it was Ann-Margret in 1966 to see next to Dean Martin in murderer's Row. Not much later, in March that year, she decided to go along as an entertainer with theUSOtour to entertain the army in Viet Nam .

In 1971 she changed her getypecaste character as a sex-kitten in musicals to a serious woman in Carnal Knowledge. For this she received a nomination for Academy Award for best supporting actress. The following year, when she acted in Lake Tahoe, she fell about 6.5 metres off the stage. She loved there injuries to over a few months and could no longer work.

Ann-Margret has played many dramatic roles in her career. For all those roles she got good reviews. So she got for her role in Tommy (1975) for a best actress Oscar nomination . In addition, she won 5 Golden Globe Awards in her career and she was there for 10 nominated.

Ann-Margret also had a career in the television. So she got in 1968 at NBC her own show, called The Ann-Margret Show. Further, she was in the 90 's in a series of television films to see.

In 1994 brought Ann-Margret from her own autobiography . In it she describes, among other things, her marriage to Roger Smith, with whom she is married since 1967 . Smith suffers from Myasthenia gravis, making Ann-Margret takes care of him.

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 * 1961:Pocketful of Miracles -Louise
 * 1962:State Fair – Emily Porter
 * 1963:Bye Bye Birdie -Kim McAfee
 * 1964:Viva Las Vegas -Rusty Martin
 * 1964:Kitten with a Whip -Jody Dvorak
 * 1964:The Pleasure Seekers – Fran Hobson
 * 1965:Bus Riley's Back in Town -Laurel
 * 1965:Once a Thief -Kristine Pedak
 * 1965:The Cincinnati Kid -Melba
 * 1966:Made in Paris -Maggie Scott
 * 1966:Stagecoach -Dallas
 * 1966:The Swinger -Kelly Olsson
 * 1966:Murderers ' Row -Suzie
 * 1967:The Tiger and the Pussycat -Carolina
 * 1968:Il Profeta -Maggie
 * 1968:Criminal Affair -Leticia
 * 1969:Rebus -Singer
 * 1970:R.P.M. -Rhoda
 * 1970:C.C. and Company -Ann McCalley
 * 1971:Carnal Knowledge – Bobbie
 * 1972:The Outside Man -Nancy Robson
 * 1973:The Train Robbers -Mrs. Lowe
 * 1975:Tommy -Nora Walker Hobbs
 * 1976:The Twist -Charlie Minerva
 * 1977:Joseph Andrews -Lady Booby
 * 1977:The Last Remake of Beau Geste -Flavia Geste
 * 1978:The Cheap Detective -Jezebel Dezire
 * 1978:Magic -Peggy Ann Snow
 * 1979:The Villain -Charming Jones
 * 1980:Middle Age Crazy -Sue Ann Burnett
 * 1982:The Return of The Soldier -Jenny Baldry
 * 1982:I Ought to Be in Pictures -Steffy Blondell
 * 1982:Lookin' to Get Out -Patti Warner
 * 1985:Twice in a Lifetime – Audrey Minelli
 * 1986:52 pickup -Barbara Mitchell
 * 1988:A tiger's Tale -Rose Butts
 * 1988:A New Life -Jackie Jardino
 * 1992:Newsies -Medda Larkson
 * 1993:Grumpy Old Men -Ariel Truax
 * 1995:Grumpier Old Men -Ariel Gustafson
 * 1999:Any Given Sunday -Margaret Pagniacci
 * 2000:The Last Producer Mira Wexler
 * 2002:Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road -Mrs. James
 * 2004:Taxi -Washburn mother
 * 2005:Mem-o-re -Carol Hargrave
 * 2006:The Break-Up -Charlie Meyers
 * 2006:The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause -Sylvia Newman
 * 2008:The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond -Cornelia
 * 1971:Ladies at Sea -Ruby
 * 1983:Who Will Love My Children? -Lucile Fray
 * 1984:A Streetcar Named Desire -Blanche DuBois
 * 1987:The Two Mrs. Grenvilles -Ann Arden Grenville
 * 1991:Our Sons -Luanne Barnes
 * 1993:Queen -Sally Jackson
 * 1994:nobody's Children -Carol Stevens
 * 1994:Scarlett -Belle Watling
 * 1994:Following Her Heart -Lena
 * 1996:Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story – Diane Kay Borchardt
 * 1996:Blue Rodeo -Maggie Yearwood
 * 1998:Four Corners -Amanda "Maggie" Wyatt
 * 1998:Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story -Pamela Harriman
 * 1999:Happy Face Murders -Lorraine Petrovich
 * 2000:Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder -Nedra Paugh
 * 2000:The 10th Kingdom -Queen Cinderella
 * 2001:Blonde -Della Monroe
 * 2001:A woman's a Helluva Thing -Claire
 * 2004:A Place Called Home -Tula Jeeters