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Miss Ann Margaret: 1961 screen test.

Why is this so damn funny?

OK true, the husband and I are shitfaced high but this never gets tired.

Put down the pipe, Annie.

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by Anonymousreply 225March 4, 2021 5:23 AM

It’s an odd performance style choice.

I guess she was going for “insouciance .”

by Anonymousreply 1November 7, 2020 2:31 AM

This is like a bad audition for a high school play (And I actually like Ann-Margret, but you're right that this clip is hilarious)

by Anonymousreply 2November 7, 2020 2:34 AM

Maybe the director just said "Look animated, honey."

by Anonymousreply 3November 7, 2020 2:35 AM

Whenever some older DLer complains about the lack of talent nowadays let's just show this video

by Anonymousreply 4November 7, 2020 2:38 AM

Does anyone still want carnal knowledge of her after seeing this?

Bye Bye Turdie.

by Anonymousreply 5November 7, 2020 2:40 AM

"Honey, when I said to look animated I didn't mean like Daffy Duck."

by Anonymousreply 6November 7, 2020 2:41 AM

She's always been a bit hyper.

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by Anonymousreply 7November 7, 2020 2:42 AM

Here's her doing "Bill Bailey" in the same screen shot

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by Anonymousreply 8November 7, 2020 2:48 AM

^ Whoops, meant screen test

by Anonymousreply 9November 7, 2020 2:48 AM

I wish Don Draper and associates would’ve watched this one for Patio soda. It’s hard to find AM quite so entrancing with these facial tics.

by Anonymousreply 10November 7, 2020 3:12 AM

Who did she blow to get in the biz?

by Anonymousreply 11November 7, 2020 3:16 AM

I love how animated she is

by Anonymousreply 12November 7, 2020 3:17 AM

Courtesy of Dr. Feelgood.

by Anonymousreply 13November 7, 2020 3:19 AM

"Who did she blow to get in the biz?"

George Burns

by Anonymousreply 14November 7, 2020 3:21 AM

If I were as high as you are, OP, I would be going on a bad trip right about at the 28 second mark. Too much facial weirdness. As it is I feel like I'm on acid, watching her teeth grind and her eyes bulge. She reminds me of Ren from Ren and Stimpy.

by Anonymousreply 15November 7, 2020 3:22 AM

Ewww

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by Anonymousreply 16November 7, 2020 3:29 AM

I wonder if it was the same day she shot this screen test. Perhaps she was trying to show off two different styles? (“I can do a show tune, and I can be HEP!”

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by Anonymousreply 17November 7, 2020 3:44 AM

She is quite hammy

by Anonymousreply 18November 7, 2020 5:55 AM

Is she attempting that gibberish thing called Scat Singing? Didn't Ella Fitzgerald do Scat?

Anyway her eye-popping performance isn't as sexy as this man's eye-popping performance.

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by Anonymousreply 19November 7, 2020 7:26 AM

Dear lord in heaven!

by Anonymousreply 20November 7, 2020 7:33 AM

This is her ultimate scat performance:

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by Anonymousreply 21November 7, 2020 7:46 AM

She passed the screen test because she has that IT factor.

by Anonymousreply 22November 7, 2020 8:26 AM

She got much better.

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by Anonymousreply 23November 7, 2020 8:28 AM

[quote] that IT factor

Nowadays we can call it the SEX factor.

by Anonymousreply 24November 7, 2020 8:29 AM

Lucky bitch

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by Anonymousreply 25November 7, 2020 1:52 PM

A sad screen test for what might have been. Judy Garland as Rose and A-M as Louise.

by Anonymousreply 26November 7, 2020 2:44 PM

I thought the screen test was great! The seeds of showbusiness greatness were there and she went on to have a successful nightclub act in later years. Since the camera picks up everything she learned to tone down the over the top animation but on the whole it was a socko performance.

by Anonymousreply 27November 7, 2020 2:55 PM

You can just see how she was well on her way to "Kitten with a Whip". I've often mistakenly thought she was in "Faster, Pussycat, Kill Kill!", too.

by Anonymousreply 28November 7, 2020 3:06 PM

Kitten With a Whip is available on youtube courtesy of the Mystery Science Theater's hilarious commentary.

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by Anonymousreply 29November 7, 2020 3:15 PM

^ That's one my favorite MST3K movies

by Anonymousreply 30November 7, 2020 5:40 PM

She was always a second rate celebrity and performer so I'm not really seeing the seeds of greatness.

by Anonymousreply 31November 7, 2020 6:30 PM

Two oscar noms is achievement. Her awards run the board, some amusing.

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by Anonymousreply 32November 7, 2020 6:44 PM

She’s a dicey performer, overall, but I liked when a review for TOMMY said, “Ann-Margret sings and dances as if the fate of the Western World depends on it.”

You often wished she gave just a little less... ie, she lacked taste.

by Anonymousreply 33November 7, 2020 6:49 PM

She was very pretty

by Anonymousreply 34November 7, 2020 6:59 PM

She is best in CARNAL KNOWLEDGE. But it’s a well written and defined role.

Actresses in general don’t get enough of those.

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by Anonymousreply 35November 7, 2020 7:12 PM

I want to see before and after pictures from the facial restructure.

by Anonymousreply 36November 7, 2020 7:27 PM

God, she was/is such a non-talent.

by Anonymousreply 37November 7, 2020 7:47 PM

[quote]Miss Ann Margaret

Her name is Ann-Margret.

by Anonymousreply 38November 7, 2020 9:06 PM

Her acting career had a lot of ups and downs--I mean drek like Kitten with a Whip shortly after her debut. The screen test suggests that singing wasn't exactly a strength, either. I guess she was a "personality" and Roger Smith did a capable job of finding niches for it.

by Anonymousreply 39November 7, 2020 9:09 PM

It took me a bit to figure out she was singing Mack the Knife.

She’s great in Tommy and really enjoyed her dancing in Bye Bye Birdie and Viva Las Vegas.

She was the perfect sex kitten. I’m a fan.

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by Anonymousreply 40November 7, 2020 9:26 PM

Occasionally her wardrobe choices were questionable.

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by Anonymousreply 41November 7, 2020 9:33 PM

Shania Twain's whole video career was a long tribute to Ann-Margrot. Except that Shania did it all with more style and never came across as slutty. But bitch did steal Ann's look and persona. Ann-Margret makes Joey Heatherton look like a nun. Way too slutty. And she has that terrible whispery syrupy speaking/singing voice. Not very talented and way too slutty. But with age and alcoholism she became a better actress. Do the eldergays of Datalounge not realize that Viva Las Vegas is something to parody in a wink wink way. Blowing Elvis, George Burns, Bob Hope and Eddie Fisher is nothing to be proud of. Thank goodness Ann Margaret had her gay Svengali husband. She and Kim Novak are two of the grossest, unfathomable stars of that time.

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by Anonymousreply 42November 7, 2020 9:48 PM

Better than Ann.

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by Anonymousreply 43November 7, 2020 9:59 PM

I don't know about Roger Smith being gay. He has 3 kids from a previous marriage and zero whoring around Hollywood stories.

by Anonymousreply 44November 7, 2020 10:13 PM

Ann-Margrock

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by Anonymousreply 45November 7, 2020 10:18 PM

This clip has obviously been made after Bobby Darin did his execrable version of Bertolt Brecht's "Mack the Knife".

He imposed doo-wop syncopated rhythms and butchered the sense of the lyrics with extraneous 'do-wahs' and 'ah-has'

by Anonymousreply 46November 7, 2020 10:18 PM

For r46:

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by Anonymousreply 47November 7, 2020 11:12 PM

Thank you, R47, he may have been 'cringy' but he knew how to play.

by Anonymousreply 48November 7, 2020 11:20 PM

[quote]This clip has obviously been made after Bobby Darin did his execrable version of Bertolt Brecht's "Mack the Knife".

Bertold Brecht? He didn't have much to do with Bobby Darin's version. The music was by Kurt Weill, and the English lyrics by Marc Blitzstein.

by Anonymousreply 49November 7, 2020 11:24 PM

[quote]"Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" (German: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer") is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their 1928 music drama The Threepenny Opera

According to Wiki

by Anonymousreply 50November 7, 2020 11:26 PM

I think Pauline Kael said “Ann-Margret does most of her acting inside her mouth.”

by Anonymousreply 51November 7, 2020 11:28 PM

That's the German version, R50. Brecht didn't write the English lyrics.

by Anonymousreply 52November 7, 2020 11:28 PM

My first reaction was how many did she have to fuck to get a part. She is so god awful it's embarrassing. Those faces, through most of the song I can't understand a word she's saying and she is one of the meanest looking people, her mouth, her eyes. Jesus. She had to be a really good fuck. I don't think she's all that pretty either, she has a good body but that's about all I can see she has going for her. I guess talent never really did count for all that much.

by Anonymousreply 53November 7, 2020 11:28 PM

Und der Haifisch, der hat Zähne

Und die trägt er im Gesicht

Und Macheath, der hat ein Messer

Doch das Messer sieht man nicht.

by Anonymousreply 54November 7, 2020 11:31 PM

^ a good, taut rhyming lyric!

by Anonymousreply 55November 7, 2020 11:33 PM

Wasn't this screen test to play one of the strumpets in an Elvis Presley movie?

by Anonymousreply 56November 7, 2020 11:35 PM

Love her! So fun, like a proto manic pixie dream girl. Endearing combination of being embarrassingly keen and balls to the wall, like Celine Dion.

by Anonymousreply 57November 7, 2020 11:44 PM

A strumpet? In an Elvis movie. Ann-Margret was positively unwholesome. You don't have to appear that desperate, demented and fucky to play in an Elvis Movie. And I don't think it was for that anyways. It's more likely some producer she was getting ass fucked by let her do that audition for Bye Bye Birdie. It's really bad and everything else that R53 said. It's not just a bad interpretation - there's something so angry and aggressive and feverish about it. She's fucking embarrassing. Must have been quite the fuck. And don't pretend that she didn't enjoy presenting herself in the most whorish ways possible long after she gained stardom. She wasn't sexy - she was giving a kind of manufactured napalm. Learned early and young. It's possible Ann-Margret was a nymphomaniac. She's quite grotesque.

by Anonymousreply 58November 7, 2020 11:46 PM

She is rather extra, but you can’t take your eyes off of her. I love her.

by Anonymousreply 59November 7, 2020 11:46 PM

With those neck movements she could have had a career as a temple dancer in India.

by Anonymousreply 60November 7, 2020 11:48 PM

Her performance in BBB is the ultimate example of charisma, star quality. AM had the IT factor. It's not something that can be acquired.

by Anonymousreply 61November 7, 2020 11:51 PM

She's quite loved in Hollywood.

by Anonymousreply 62November 7, 2020 11:51 PM

[quote]With those neck movements she could have had a career as a temple dancer in India.

She's okay.

by Anonymousreply 63November 7, 2020 11:56 PM

R53. A-M started her career at a young age without much training (she dropped out of Northwestern after a year after being discovered by George Burns). She grew over the years from someone with charisma and talent (as she demonstrated in BBB) to a genuinely good actress in such films as Csrnal Knowledge and her Blanche in the TV streetcar. She’s also supposed to be a good Joe—I won’t have you speaking I’ll of s fellow Wildcat!

by Anonymousreply 64November 8, 2020 12:07 AM

I can't think of anyone who comes across so whorish in all of Hollywood stars. Certainly not Marilyn or even the slutty Elizabeth Taylor. Her fine features saved her from being exposed.

Ann-Margret may well have been bipolar. There's something not right about her. I heard she was a lifelong exhibitionist AND personal recluse. Addicted to painkillers and booze. Coy and whispery and fake innocent about her life while thrusting her tits and ass into everyone's face. She's a terrible singer. Not out of tune, just really bad. Tan Mom kind of singing. She later promoted herself as a happy part of that bridge to old Hollywood. Yeah, she was the road most travelled.

I'm sorry. But no one presents themselves so often in there personal and professional parts as such a fucking slut without being a bit messed up. Combined with her facial expressions - she looks like a porn star not entirely enjoying herself.

I liked the Two Mrs. Grenvilles. Saw it on YouTube. She looks slutty and sounds completely on pills through her whole performance though. How much was performance. Ann Margret loved her booze and pain pills, big hair and showing off her TITS. No matter what she was doing.

by Anonymousreply 65November 8, 2020 12:08 AM

[quote]R64 She grew over the years from someone with charisma and talent (as she demonstrated in BBB)

I keep reading this as Big Black Cock

by Anonymousreply 66November 8, 2020 12:09 AM

Stop slut shaming her, asshole.

by Anonymousreply 67November 8, 2020 12:13 AM

Bye-Bye Bird-hee!

by Anonymousreply 68November 8, 2020 12:18 AM

Yes, R67, we need to be proud of our Sluts!

And don't forget our distinguised Strumpets.

by Anonymousreply 69November 8, 2020 12:20 AM

She (almost) topped the disco charts!

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by Anonymousreply 70November 8, 2020 12:21 AM

Gee OP 2 Oscar Nominations, 6 Emmy nominations and a win, 10 Golden Globe nominations with 5 wins, I guess the screen test worked.

by Anonymousreply 71November 8, 2020 12:25 AM

Don't forget she also loves Jesus

by Anonymousreply 72November 8, 2020 12:25 AM

Are you drunk R65?

by Anonymousreply 73November 8, 2020 12:26 AM

[quote] she was the road most travelled

That is a poetic description.

by Anonymousreply 74November 8, 2020 12:33 AM

Nah, I'm not drunk R73. Maybe you don't know what it's like to be a handsome well built man under 40? Ann-Margret reminds me of a few slurry crooked mouth cross eyed tits out whores who try to get my attention in some social and business situations. Even now. Though they dress better. When she was young in OP's clip - she appears deeply disturbed. A sexual fever that is ugly - she looks like she's inviting a gang bang. I find it vaguely familiar and very unattractive porn. I'm not an eldergay so have no attachment to her alleged talent. But I did post the Shania Twain comparisons. Shania had the look without the history or obvious disturbance of Anne Margaret. So now I get Carnal Knowledge and her other middle age parts I've seen, not to mention her terrible attempts to sing with Tina Turner. Type casting. Even Jack Nicholson wouldn't touch that. Ann Margret is the opposite of sexy. She's slutty and a bit disturbing. Nice legs. Nothing special about her looks otherwise. She's more fraudulently sexual than Raquel Welch. I wonder who was the first man to take advantage of her? She's obviously a ruined woman. Tramp in everything she does. It's kind of gross. Weird what people perceived as wholesome or talented 70 years ago.

Cheers.

by Anonymousreply 75November 8, 2020 12:39 AM

^^ Put down the pipe, hon.

by Anonymousreply 76November 8, 2020 12:44 AM

I've always liked her and she's turned in some really great performances. Her Blanche in Streetcar was surprisingly good and I liked that she didn't make the mistake of playing her as completely insane and hopeless from the start as many others have done. It was a performance that built as it went along.

by Anonymousreply 77November 8, 2020 12:45 AM

She used to regularly ride this bike around Hollywood with other female bikers.

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by Anonymousreply 78November 8, 2020 12:55 AM

Ah. Of course she's a biker chick. She enjoys the initiation.

by Anonymousreply 79November 8, 2020 1:01 AM

Hubby Roger Smith was sexy in 50s/60s TV series "77 Sunset Strip," and adorable as grown-up nephew Patrick to Rosalind Russell's "Auntie Mame."

Top drawer!

by Anonymousreply 80November 8, 2020 1:03 AM

Good friends with Tina Turner. When Tina was having troubles, AM took her in.

by Anonymousreply 81November 8, 2020 1:04 AM

Met them a couple of times. They were married for 50 years and you could really tell they adored each other.

by Anonymousreply 82November 8, 2020 1:13 AM

Ann-Margret, Carol Lynley, and Pamela Tiffin in "The Pleasures Seekers” – fun trash. Also with a sadly matronly, forty-something Gene Tierney and a very handsome Gardner McKay. (A-M's musical numbers are hammy spectacles!)

by Anonymousreply 83November 8, 2020 1:18 AM

Good Lord

by Anonymousreply 84November 8, 2020 1:20 AM

[quote]and her Blanche in the TV Streetcar.

GOWNS by TRAVILLA!

by Anonymousreply 85November 8, 2020 1:25 AM

The older Ann Margaret gets the better I like her as a performer.

If she makes it to 100 I may be able to call her "mediocre."

As a person, though, I do like her and as a child had a crush on her late husband.

by Anonymousreply 86November 8, 2020 1:31 AM

Her mouth movements look like a concoction of Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey.

by Anonymousreply 87November 8, 2020 1:47 AM

I’m glad to think about ann Margaret right now. Pure escapism.

by Anonymousreply 88November 8, 2020 1:47 AM

That interview of her talking about Elvis (where she wouldn't actually talk about Elvis,) she behaved like a complete prisspot and seemed rather bitter over Elvis not getting the recognition she felt he deserved.

by Anonymousreply 89November 8, 2020 1:54 AM

Bless you r83. The Pleasure Seekers is on Youtube. I'll be smoking weed and watching this tonight.

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by Anonymousreply 90November 8, 2020 1:58 AM

Gardner McKay's IMDB photo is classic – look at that big boat thing he’s gripping…

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by Anonymousreply 91November 8, 2020 2:05 AM

The Pleasure Seekers is a hoot

by Anonymousreply 92November 8, 2020 2:06 AM

Why is anyone slut-shaming her? Sluts are way more fun and interesting than someone who has been with one guy from 18-100 years old. Would you rather hang with and hear stories from Queen Elizabeth or (the late) Elizabeth Taylor?

by Anonymousreply 93November 8, 2020 2:07 AM

I’m only in my 30s and didn’t know who she was growing up but she definitely has star quality.

by Anonymousreply 94November 8, 2020 2:08 AM

Light up, and enjoy, R90! Pamela Tiffin is a virgin! And along with Mr. McKay, A-M's foreign romantic interest Dr. Andres is hot, too!

by Anonymousreply 95November 8, 2020 2:17 AM

Nudies... NUDIES!

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by Anonymousreply 96November 8, 2020 3:53 AM

[quote] N. O’H

Neely O'Hara?

by Anonymousreply 97November 8, 2020 4:04 AM

Who the fuck is Neely O'Hara?

by Anonymousreply 98November 8, 2020 4:14 AM

I remember her comeback in the early seventies after falling 23 feet from a platform onstage in Las Vegas - one side of her face was completely smashed and she had to have extensive cosmetic surgery. Have never been able to find it, but I think she had a TV special after her recovery called "Ann-Margret, Good as New" from Caesar's Palace. She looked sensational and better than ever. Love her for that triumph alone.

by Anonymousreply 99November 8, 2020 4:15 AM

Oh dear.

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by Anonymousreply 100November 8, 2020 4:18 AM

Her performance in BBB is my favorite performance by anyone in anything ever. Is it the greatest? No. You want great try Callas in Tosca, Garland in Wizard of Oz, Leigh in Streetcar or Clift in From Here to Eternity. But for pure pleasure nobody is more gifted than Ann in this movie.

And Miss Lindsey R75 go back to your bible, your gin and your rent boys.

by Anonymousreply 101November 8, 2020 4:55 AM

I can't read the whole thread cuz it's after 1am and I'm tired, so maybe this has been mentioned, but didn't she get her start on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour?

As for people not understanding why she was popular, she was sexy and midwest-wholesome at the same time. She was kind of innocently sexual, the juxtaposition of the two made her fascinating because it was a little different from the Doris Day or Marilyn Monroe type. She could do bumps and grinds in State Fair and still seem like there was something cornfed. She was supposed to play the nice girl, Margie Frake, but came across as too sexual, so was given the role of Emily, the "bad" girl the brother meets at the fair.

She was shy offstage and uninhibited onstage. Her first movie was for Frank Capra, playing Bette Davis's daughter in Pocketful Of Miracles.

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by Anonymousreply 102November 8, 2020 5:21 AM

Her basic whorishness shone through in everything she did. Except perhaps “The Return of the Soldier”.

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by Anonymousreply 103November 8, 2020 5:27 AM

R65/75 needs to unclench. Jesus Christ. You come off as very prissy for someone so well-built and handsome and in his 30s.

Anyway, Ann-Margaret has always appealed to me, and it’s never occurred to me to put her under a microscope and judge her for any pills or booze she might enjoy (she’s still alive, so... whatever!) or how slutty she might have been (I guarantee I’ve been sluttier).

And it seems especially silly to judge her so harshly for a single fucking screen test from 1961 (which by the way was 59 years ago, not 70, dumbass R75).

I can’t believe no one’s mentioned her performance in the psychotic-ventriloquist thriller MAGIC (1978) with Anthony Hopkins. She’s great!

I also just realized she’s who MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle reminds me of.

by Anonymousreply 104November 8, 2020 5:48 AM

[quote] “The Return of the Soldier”.

R103 I saw that when I was young and couldn't quite see the point. I guess it was directed at fraus and feminists.

by Anonymousreply 105November 8, 2020 6:33 AM

Oh, please, as Constance Ford would have snorted in "A Summer Place", she's just a common harlot. That SNL clip is hilarious and really gets to the core of her and why her camp sluttiness is so entertaining, while the screen test is a reminder that at best she did "song stylings" (the sort of thing Mamie Van Doren also did). Nichols got a semblence of a performance out of Candice Bergin, so of course he managed with Ann-Margaret, too. She got her Golden Globes back in the day when the award was a joke and basically bought by publicists. Trotting out Oscars and Emmys as proof of quality is just delusional---lots deserve them, lots don't and win for reasons of show business politics or because of a divided vote on better perfomances.

by Anonymousreply 106November 8, 2020 1:09 PM

She received great reviews as Blanche in the TV version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1984).

Treat Williams made a delicious Stanley.

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by Anonymousreply 107November 8, 2020 1:31 PM

Its a new day. Let the slut shaming recommence.

by Anonymousreply 108November 8, 2020 2:36 PM

R107, I don’t remember “raves” for that. Her Blanche was competent; no more, no less.

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by Anonymousreply 109November 8, 2020 2:55 PM

^^ She received a Golden Globe and an Emmy nomination for her Blanche.

by Anonymousreply 110November 8, 2020 3:08 PM

She wasn’t “slutty” or “whorish” in Grumpy Old Men.

by Anonymousreply 111November 8, 2020 3:14 PM

So many noms.....

by Anonymousreply 112November 8, 2020 3:19 PM

And most of them for Golden Globes back when it was a joke.

by Anonymousreply 113November 8, 2020 4:33 PM

[quote]I’m only in my 30s and didn’t know who she was growing up but she definitely has star quality.

Here Sweetie behold....

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by Anonymousreply 114November 8, 2020 5:12 PM

She has won 5 Golden Globes in her career, including one for her debut performance as Bette Davis' daughter in A Pocketful of Miracles (1961).

by Anonymousreply 115November 8, 2020 5:32 PM

Again with the joke awards, alt least leas with the Oscar noms, fangirl.

by Anonymousreply 116November 8, 2020 5:33 PM

I always found her accent in those old movies a little strange. I know she was an immigrant, and grew up in Illinois. I don't know if that explains it.

by Anonymousreply 117November 8, 2020 5:40 PM

Bitch stole my dolls.

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by Anonymousreply 118November 8, 2020 5:47 PM

And dear god she and Elvis in VLV. No pair of stars in a movie musical had more youth, beauty, charisma and electricity.

by Anonymousreply 119November 8, 2020 5:55 PM

[quote]I remember her comeback in the early seventies after falling 23 feet from a platform onstage in Las Vegas

That happened at Lake Tahoe, not Las Vegas.

by Anonymousreply 120November 8, 2020 7:05 PM

The bitch was fierce in her youth.

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by Anonymousreply 121November 8, 2020 9:25 PM

^ That is reckless unsafe behaviour. I hope it wasn't similarly reckless behaviour that led to her face being smashed up in the 70s.

by Anonymousreply 122November 8, 2020 9:28 PM

Her face getting smashed wasn't due to her carelessness, but the stage crew. She fell from a not so sturdy platform during her act and landed on her face.

by Anonymousreply 123November 8, 2020 9:37 PM

My high school Speech teacher went to Northwestern with her and was in her dorm room when she got the call that she'd been cast in State Fair.

by Anonymousreply 124November 8, 2020 9:40 PM

Annie was always landing on her face, according to many.

by Anonymousreply 125November 8, 2020 9:41 PM

[quote] said, “Ann-Margret sings and dances as if the fate of the Western World depends on it.”

Wow, talk about a relic of a wisecrack. Remember when “the western world” used to mean something?

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by Anonymousreply 126November 8, 2020 9:52 PM

[quote] sings and dances as if the fate of the Western World depends on it.

I thought that description was meant for Tina Turner and her OTT performances

by Anonymousreply 127November 8, 2020 9:59 PM

Tina Turner sang from her soul with great artistry, confidence and abandon. Ann Margret can't sing.

by Anonymousreply 128November 8, 2020 10:19 PM

I remember when Sugar was being cast Merrick claimed she was a possibility. I knew it was PR bs because she was incredibly hot at the time and would never commit to Broadway for 8 perfs a week for comparatively so little money. But she would have been great and added star power luster to a dreary tired musical.

by Anonymousreply 129November 8, 2020 10:29 PM

Hkool

by Anonymousreply 130November 8, 2020 10:41 PM

Michael Bennett wanted AM for a Broadway version of "Love Me Or Leave Me". It might have been a true Broadway event and I think Bennett could have brought something really new out in her. She was used to several performances a week in Vegas so she might have been fabulous

by Anonymousreply 131November 9, 2020 1:15 AM

She was not a very polished actress or singer but she was just an unstoppable force of nature onscreen and had the kind of "it" factor you could never pick up in an acting school. I'd take Miss Margret over hams like Meryl Streep anytime.

And remember the time Barbara Stanwyck won an Emmy and made her whole speech about the greatness of Ann's performance in "Who Will Love My Children"? I guess people bashing her in this thread think they know better than Miss Stanwyck, huh?

by Anonymousreply 132November 9, 2020 1:19 AM

Tina Turner. On a great night when times weren't so good. In her Vegas costume and bad balloon set. But she had Kenny Moore! She was FIRE. Lord Jesus fucking Christ. Watch the whole fucking thing and don't talk about Ann Margaret's grotesque singing or dancing or sex appeal no more. Tina is without glossy help here and she's a bit worn down. And she's amazing. Janis Joplin said that Tina was the best in the world.

Don't mention Ann Margaret in the same sentence as Tina Turner again. It makes the gods mad.

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by Anonymousreply 133November 9, 2020 2:01 AM

[quote] Ann-Margret Olsson (b.1941), known mononymously as Ann-Margret, is a Swede

Mononymous names don't seem proper to me. You give mononymous names to horses.

by Anonymousreply 134November 9, 2020 2:01 AM

R132, if you think Meryl Streep is a "ham" but Ann-Margret isn't then I question your judgment

I mean, I love Ann-Margret, but subtle, she ain't

by Anonymousreply 135November 9, 2020 2:13 AM

[quote]R114 Here, Sweetie, behold.... the second she became a Star.

Jebus but her voice is annoying!

by Anonymousreply 136November 9, 2020 3:07 AM

Who Will Love My Children? is a DL classic

by Anonymousreply 137November 9, 2020 3:11 AM

R135 The difference is that Margret's overacting seems totally natural and is therefore kind of endearing to watch. You can totally see how much that woman enjoys being in front of the camera and that she doesn't take herself too seriously as an actress. Meanwhile Mary Louise's hamminess feels more like the result of overanalyzing the hell out of every single movement she makes onscreen. And that's the bad kind of ham!

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by Anonymousreply 138November 9, 2020 3:17 AM

Good Lord we have an AnnBot. He must be Latino, Latinos go ape shit over redheads

by Anonymousreply 139November 9, 2020 3:32 AM

[quote]Don't mention Ann Margaret in the same sentence as Tina Turner again. It makes the gods mad.

Ya got that right.

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by Anonymousreply 140November 9, 2020 2:06 PM

We're fine, we send our love.

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by Anonymousreply 141November 9, 2020 2:42 PM

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by Anonymousreply 142November 9, 2020 3:33 PM

^ Gangbang granny porn. ^

by Anonymousreply 143November 9, 2020 4:13 PM

R142 is from a film A-M’s husband wrote and produced, CC & COMPANY. Touchingly, he arranged for his bride to have her very first nude scene in it.

Gene Siskel wrote in his review, [italic]”Ann-Margret has a brief nude scene in which she proves that in addition to having a foul mouth she is fat.”

by Anonymousreply 144November 9, 2020 4:42 PM

I'll have to get it on bluray.

by Anonymousreply 145November 9, 2020 5:27 PM

Dancing in Vegas. If one could go back in time...

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by Anonymousreply 146November 9, 2020 5:28 PM

Gene Siskel is a twat!

by Anonymousreply 147November 9, 2020 5:42 PM

in what world was Ann Margaret fat in that movie?!

by Anonymousreply 148November 10, 2020 10:23 PM

None. Siskel was being a dick

by Anonymousreply 149November 10, 2020 10:28 PM

A-M performed a scorching rendition of the song "Bachelor in Paradise" at the 1962 Oscars, but the Academy will not post it on their YouTube channel.

by Anonymousreply 150November 10, 2020 10:50 PM

Personally, I think the hat is pushing it.

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by Anonymousreply 151November 11, 2020 4:16 AM

Jugs ahoy...

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by Anonymousreply 152November 11, 2020 4:19 AM

Hello. Have you met my breasts?

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by Anonymousreply 153November 11, 2020 4:22 AM

My breasts again...

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by Anonymousreply 154November 11, 2020 4:23 AM

These are my breasts. I have two of them.

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by Anonymousreply 155November 11, 2020 4:27 AM

You are very mean.

by Anonymousreply 156November 11, 2020 4:28 AM

[quote] Who Will Love My Children?

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by Anonymousreply 157November 11, 2020 4:31 AM

In the Bill Bailey clip you can see she was destined to become a star. She's awful, she doesn't know what she's doing but she does have the "it" factor.

by Anonymousreply 158November 11, 2020 4:39 AM

DL sinking lower than low, who thought it possible. All those trashing A-M here are assholes.

by Anonymousreply 159November 11, 2020 4:45 AM

She is a Swede.

The Catholic Hitchcock would lubriciously lick his lips and wobble his jowls whenever a Swedish woman (such as Anita Bjork and Ingrid Bergman) was mentioned. He knew the Lutheran Swedes were matter-of-fact about the body, nudity and fornication.

They suggested the sexual sublimity he never got with Alma.

by Anonymousreply 160November 11, 2020 4:46 AM

Ann started off as a lightweight singing and dancing tart, so she was perfect for stuff like Bye Bye Birdie, but she did eventually show her range in the 70's and 80's with several critically acclaimed performances and she picked up a few nominations and awards for her work. She's wonderful in Carnal Knowledge, Tommy, A Streetcar Named Desire, Magic, and Who Will Love My Children. There was also one she did with Julie Andrews and Hugh Grant about her son dying of AIDS where she was really good. I can't remember the name of that one.

by Anonymousreply 161November 11, 2020 5:06 PM

^^ Our Sons (1991)

by Anonymousreply 162November 11, 2020 5:09 PM

Thank you R162 That's the one!

by Anonymousreply 163November 11, 2020 5:40 PM

Is she slutty while her son dies of AIDS? Are her breasts nicely exposed? Does she whisper and squint her eyes alot?

by Anonymousreply 164November 11, 2020 6:49 PM

It's interesting to see her back then. She had a great body and a very expressive face, but the naturally dark hair did not do her no favors, and she looked much prettier as the Sixties wore on and she lightened her hair and got softer makeup.

As for her performing style: she is over the top, but that's because she started her career as a stage entertainer, not as a screen actress. It took her years to learn how to tone it down for the camera. Her Blanche duBois is to this day (deservedly) considered among the very best performances of that role ever.

by Anonymousreply 165November 11, 2020 6:58 PM

All the actresses back then had to do cheesecake and sex pot photos. She’s not shameful like you’re trying to make her out to be.

by Anonymousreply 166November 11, 2020 7:14 PM

[quote]r164 Is she slutty [in that movie] while her son dies of AIDS? Are her breasts nicely exposed? Does she whisper and squint her eyes a lot?

You tell us.

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by Anonymousreply 167November 11, 2020 7:56 PM

[quote]R166 All the actresses back then had to do cheesecake and sex pot photos.

I do like the quote from Sophia Loren back then, when she said, “I am more than just a sexy pot!”

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by Anonymousreply 168November 11, 2020 8:57 PM

[quote]r165 Her Blanche duBois is to this day (deservedly) considered among the very best performances of that role ever.

Please stop trying to rewrite history.

Christian Science Monitor 02/29/84 [italic] Perhaps it is unfair to judge any actor against the memory of superb performances by Tandy, Leigh, and Brando. But the fact is that while 'Streetcar' was unforgettable in the hands of those performers, it is merely an interesting try in the hands of Ann-Margret and Treat Williams - interesting but somehow lacking in the fire and passion that Tennessee Williams infused into this character study of the human search for loving relationships.

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by Anonymousreply 169November 11, 2020 9:12 PM

Well, if anyone knows anything about acting, it is the Christian Science Monitor!

by Anonymousreply 170November 11, 2020 10:05 PM

I love our Ann-Margret hate troll!

by Anonymousreply 171November 12, 2020 5:22 AM

This is what you need to know: Bo Derek’s mother was Ann-Margret’s hairdresser.

It is through her that Bo met her future husband John Derek.

Bo and John Derek were Republicans. Connect the dots, people!

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by Anonymousreply 172November 12, 2020 5:56 AM

She was always a One-Trick Pony.

by Anonymousreply 173November 12, 2020 6:44 AM

I had no idea her hair wasn't actually red.

by Anonymousreply 174November 12, 2020 6:49 AM

She flashed her pussy enough - you should have noticed.

by Anonymousreply 175November 12, 2020 6:53 AM

[quote] Bo and John Derek were Republicans. Connect the dots, people!

Republicans of the 80's were not the deplorables of today. It started slowly with Regan, but Hollywood supported him because he was one of their own.

by Anonymousreply 176November 12, 2020 12:05 PM

Bottle red head.

by Anonymousreply 177November 12, 2020 12:33 PM

R176: Oh, please. You might be able to say that about GOPers of the 50s or 60s, but the Reaganites were plenty deplorable.

by Anonymousreply 178November 12, 2020 12:46 PM

^^ WTF? This is Miss Ann-Margret's thread.

by Anonymousreply 179November 12, 2020 12:51 PM

I blocked one Ann-Margret troll comment and they all went away. The 'Christian Science Monitor' comment was the winner from the troll, though. Good fuck...who the hell would get their acting new from 'CSM'? Not even Christian Scientists!

by Anonymousreply 180November 12, 2020 2:16 PM

I always get her confused with Angie Dickinson especially in their later years, they were sort of built in the same mold. Their popularity rested with appealing to traditional male fantasy of sexpot, but with a ‘I’m part of the boys club’ persona. An actress-performer with a broader appeal would have projected much more of a persona than that, one that’s more relatable to different groups of people.

by Anonymousreply 181November 12, 2020 3:21 PM

She did seem to have a gut while filming her nude scene in "CC and Company."

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by Anonymousreply 182November 12, 2020 3:54 PM

Boy, was her leading man homely.

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by Anonymousreply 183November 12, 2020 3:55 PM

Angie and A-M are both adored in Hollywood. They're considered sweethearts.

by Anonymousreply 184November 12, 2020 5:12 PM

In a way, Britney Spears is the 21st century Ann-Margret.

by Anonymousreply 185November 12, 2020 5:13 PM

Britney will never be nominated for an Oscar in her wildest dreams, so.....no

by Anonymousreply 186November 12, 2020 5:19 PM

[quote]R180 I blocked one Ann-Margret troll comment and they all went away. The 'Christian Science Monitor' comment was the winner from the troll, though.

Well, A-M is a big time Christian who’s been on [italic]The 700 Club, [/italic]etc. jawing about her religious faith, so, really, it’s fitting.

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by Anonymousreply 187November 12, 2020 10:39 PM

I wonder if she cussed out God for her lack of lips.

by Anonymousreply 188November 12, 2020 10:42 PM

What is jarring about Ann-Margret, looking back, is how even as the tide was turning in the 1960s and 70s, she clung to this “frail womanhood” public image. For instance, she said, “When a man tells me I’m sexy, that’s the highest compliment he can give me.”

REALLY?? Jesus. Okay, fembot. Serena Joy will see you now.

I have a copy of The Celebrity Cookbook (which is a total hoot) and in their segment Ann’s husband says, “I have to watch what she eats, so she doesn’t get too fat.” And she dithers something like, “Yes, Roger has to do that.”

The idea of a manager/husband decreeing what his spouse/mealticket can and cannot eat is rather chilling. Hopefully he gave her an extra bone to gnaw on in the corner once in a while, as he popped open another beer.

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by Anonymousreply 189November 12, 2020 10:52 PM

That's only jarring if you exist in a feminist/equality bubble.

by Anonymousreply 190November 12, 2020 11:02 PM

no one on the DL is in a "feminist bubble"

by Anonymousreply 191November 12, 2020 11:16 PM

There are people on DL who believe in equality.

by Anonymousreply 192November 12, 2020 11:17 PM

Eldergays, could someone tell me who the blonde woman with huge hair and the guy in a white suit are in this pic from R189's link? I can identify the others but not these two. The white suit guy looks crazy familiar.

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by Anonymousreply 193November 12, 2020 11:34 PM

It just occurred to me: the guy must be Sean Connery but I still have no idea who the woman is.

by Anonymousreply 194November 12, 2020 11:36 PM

It ees Ricardo Montalban...

by Anonymousreply 195November 12, 2020 11:38 PM

Thanks. I take my Sean Connery comment back.

by Anonymousreply 196November 12, 2020 11:40 PM

Is the woman Dolly Parton?

by Anonymousreply 197November 12, 2020 11:41 PM

Sorry - did not read the fine print R195.

by Anonymousreply 198November 12, 2020 11:43 PM

It doesn't resemble Dolly facially. Maybe Loni Anderson? Carol Wayne?

by Anonymousreply 199November 12, 2020 11:43 PM

She's a singer and a dancer and her career is/was very important. They have to worry about every ounce under lights and cameras so yes you are living in a feminist/equality bubble. It has nothing to do with believing in equality or not.

by Anonymousreply 200November 12, 2020 11:44 PM

I'm still going with Dolly,r199. Loni and Carol weren't at the same level as the others on the cover were....

by Anonymousreply 201November 12, 2020 11:48 PM

Not sure how this will load - but interesting celebrity list from an inside page of the book on e-bay

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by Anonymousreply 202November 12, 2020 11:52 PM

You're probably right but Dolly didn't have a big, garish smile like that (before whatever procedures she'd eventually have on her face). Fawcett did have that oddly rectangular smile as in the cartoon image above.

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by Anonymousreply 203November 12, 2020 11:54 PM

You're probably right but Dolly didn't have a big, garish smile like that (before whatever procedures she'd eventually have on her face). Fawcett did have that oddly rectangular smile as in the cartoon image above.

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by Anonymousreply 204November 12, 2020 11:54 PM

Someone who made Bette Davis’ mustard gelatin ring from that cookbook:

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by Anonymousreply 205November 12, 2020 11:55 PM

Perhaps it's meant to look like she's singing, r203.

by Anonymousreply 206November 13, 2020 12:03 AM

Among the recipes I remember is Mary Tyler Moore’s hamburger stroganoff.

She comes across as an utter pill, bitching about how depressing it is to spend her precious time cooking something only to having it devoured in 5 minutes. So she browns ground beef, stirs in sour cream and a can of mushrooms and calls it a day.

It did make me wonder why someone as successful and busy as MTM was cooking dinner for her husband every night. Couldn’t they just hire a cook?

by Anonymousreply 207November 13, 2020 12:10 AM

[Quote] It did make me wonder why someone as successful and busy as MTM was cooking dinner for her husband every night. Couldn’t they just hire a cook?

Female stars lied about cooking all the time. I guess it was considered not relatable to say "I don't cook."

by Anonymousreply 208November 13, 2020 12:11 AM

If I were wealthy I’d like a cook to drop off dinner about 5 nights a week. They wouldn’t need to live in (which might be invasive) but I’d like to have stews, casseroles etc delivered, with salad and side dishes.

Are their services like this? It’s not exactly catering, but something less formal.

by Anonymousreply 209November 13, 2020 12:16 AM

Meals on Wheels or Care Of The Elderly.

by Anonymousreply 210November 13, 2020 12:20 AM

You bitch!

by Anonymousreply 211November 13, 2020 12:21 AM

I think Ann-Margret’s contribution to the cookbook may be pancakes. Maybe someone can make it out? And I seem to remember she talks about liking bread.

Sorry this is the only image I could find[bold] : (

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by Anonymousreply 212November 13, 2020 12:25 AM

She was good in Bus Riley's Back in Town. I saw it on TCM at, like, 3 in the morning a few years back

by Anonymousreply 213November 13, 2020 12:29 AM

[quote]R220 She's a singer and a dancer and her career is/was very important. They have to worry about every ounce under lights and cameras

That’s true. But it’s tacky for her husband to say in an interview that she gets fat if HE doesn’t control her food.

by Anonymousreply 214November 13, 2020 12:43 AM

Well, suitcase pimps have to exert their dominance, don't they.

by Anonymousreply 215November 13, 2020 12:49 AM

Bus Riley

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by Anonymousreply 216November 13, 2020 12:50 AM

I seem to remember thinking, as she came back from her accident, that she had MUCH bigger tits.

by Anonymousreply 217March 1, 2021 6:17 PM

I am so surprised reading this thread to see how much faith some people put in awards.

Does anyone really use them to gauge what is good? I guess so.

by Anonymousreply 218March 1, 2021 6:46 PM

The blond lady in the comic on the cookbook is Farrah Fawcett or Charro.

by Anonymousreply 219March 1, 2021 7:27 PM

She can dance.

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by Anonymousreply 220March 1, 2021 7:42 PM
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by Anonymousreply 221March 1, 2021 7:46 PM
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by Anonymousreply 222March 1, 2021 7:47 PM

I love The Threepenny Opera and I love Brecht and Weill. I go to every production that's on, and bitches I have been living in London for 30 years so I have seen a few. But I have never seen a better rendition of Mack the Knife than this:

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by Anonymousreply 223March 1, 2021 7:54 PM

Joey Heatherton sang better.

by Anonymousreply 224March 1, 2021 8:30 PM

R197, I bet that's Ellie May from The Beverly Hillbillies.

by Anonymousreply 225March 4, 2021 5:23 AM
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