Ann Margret joined Instagram recently

I never liked her. Never. I found her extremely annoying. Hated her mannerisms. Ugh. She repelled me.

I love her so much in Viva Las Vegas. They don’t make stars like that anymore. She and Elvis had great chemistry. Her memoir is very revealing about that part of her life without sharing too much.

I also loved her performance on Tommy. Crazy she got an Oscar nomination for it but I’m glad she did. RIP Tina. There’s a fun video of them performing together on YouTube.

WTF I have more Instagram followers than Ann fucking Margret - go follow her, Marys, this disturbs me

R3 She doesn’t get enough recognition from the younger generation unfortunately, even from the girlies and gays who are into classic stars.

You are WAY off base, R1.

Gorgeous, juicy girl, brimming with energy and sex in the early ‘60s. Quickly sidelined when her sex kitten image dated badly by 1968. Spectacular comeback (at 30!) as Bobbie in “Carnal Knowledge,” snagging an Oscar nomination and kicking off a career as a serious actress. She deserved that Oscar nomination for “Tommy” — she is fully present and committed to the material and manages to humanize and center the whole thing. When Barbara Stanwyck won an Emmy, sje apologized to Ann-Margret, who was widely consiered to have given the better performance.

I met her once in the’80s — petite, soft-spoken, warm, friendly and polite. She looked very beige: beige sweater, skirt and coat, beige hair and lipstick. She was so overwhelming to see in the movies in “Bye Bye Birdie” and I was so happy to see her in person.

She is wearing the wrong type of foundation make up for a woman her age ! It's caking around her eyes ! Nice implants and or dentures !

This reminds me of when Rose-Marie joined Twitter and then died. Is Ann dying?

That girl *worked*. Too bad she never got to add Desiree Armfeldt to her resume.

Has she always looked like Lisa Welchel?

r7 - i thought the EXACT SAME THING.

Ann-Margret joined Instagram...ok, she's dying in 3...2...1

Not sure why, but it was kind of a knee-jerk reaction.

SNL

I don’t think she’s dying. She’s been doing a lot of interviews lately and she looks healthy and good for her age.

R6 Agreed and this makes me sad. My mother was a very well-dressed, attractive woman, and in her late 70s she started caking on too much makeup like this. The problem was her eyesight had diminished, so she wasn’t seeing clearly enough to notice. I took her aside and told her the days of foundation were over, and we went shopping for tinted moisturizer, which was a lot more forgiving.

I’m guessing Ann wasn’t blessed with a gay child.

R12 See here

I can't find that one video that was making the rounds a year or so ago...where she dances through a party and she's wearing tight, black see-through leggings. It's NOT the one about "Ann-Margret always had fans on her."

It's specific to that scene and that particular movie. it's not a close-up shot, the view is farther away and she does such a great job dancing her way through the entire party. She was dancing her ass off, and pretty sultry for the time.

It was really quite something. That girl could dance. And she was pretty unapologetic in portraying an unabashed go-go'er.

She's not dying anytime soon. She's got a lot of living to do with boys from Yale and Purdue.

as above

The great Ann-Margret

I’m not that fond of her, but it’s kind of sad she’s dying.

She was the hottest thing back then. And she could hold her own with the big boys. Rare in those days.

And now, dying.

Swedish gal

Show some appreciation!

I think she’s one of those who slept her way to the top. She’s talented so I dont know why. There are too many stories out there about her cozying up to important men behind the screen. Joseph Biroc had a thing for her and devoted more camera time on her than anybody else if he was filming, no matter who’s movie it was supposed to be. I read her autobiography and she made herself sound like a virgin when she married Roger Smith.

CLOWN Makeup......less is more Ann

Leave Ann alone!!!

She wasn't even born in the US:

[quote] Born Ann-Margaret Olsson in Stockholm, Sweden on April 28, 1941, the redhead who would one day be known simply as Ann-Margret spent the first five years of her life in her native country before her electrician father was offered a job in stateside.

She looks good. Listen to her voice; it's not an old lady voice. She sounds good.

IMO, too much has been made of her relationship with Elvis.

Yes, the had a passionate, on-set relationship that carried over past the movie. They became friends, probably friends with benefits.

If they had gotten married, he would've continued popping pills, yo-yo dieting, and fucking multiple other women.

[quote]Born Ann-Margaret Olsson

Oh dear, r27.

That was a cut and paste from the source, r29, not MY misspelling. (2nd paragraph down on page)

So you can take your "Oh dear" and s...

She looks a bit like Donna mills. My father loved Ann Margaret, I find her charming but her films don’t interest me.

RIP, Ann-Margret.

R28 Elvis always sent her flowers before her shows opening night for the rest of his life. Clearly they had a special connection that never faded.

[quote]R33 Clearly they had a special connection that never faded.

And she never lets us forget it.

My husband worked at a performing arts center and Ann-Margret, Ian Anderson, and Joan Rivers(!) were the least demanding, most professional, and NICEST guests they had. He said Ann-Margret and Tiger Smith were the nicest of all.

R34 How so? Whenever she’s asked about him in interviews she’s very vague. She doesn’t milk her connection to him.

I was surprised to hear her hold her own, singing and dancing with Tina Turner.

Ann opens the 1977 Oscars

Roger Smith at r35. Damn autocorrect

Was nice to see her get some attention with the release of her album last year, but she doesn't get the respect or recognition she deserves, which is a shame. Her beauty, her legendary kindness, and her work ethic are enough before you throw in the Elvis connection, comeback after her fall, and sheer span of her career. She's one of the last great old sing-and-dance broads, with enough solid dramatic performances to prove her success as an actor wasn't an accident. She dropped off in a big way around the early 2000s (presumably to care for Roger), if she'd only continued her cultural momentum with something more significant than the occasional walk-on nothing role in an indie film, she'd be better remembered by the younger generations. She's still around though-- her Emmy win for Law & Order wasn't that long ago-- it's kind of weird how she floats in and out of the zeitgeist with such little fanfare, whereas someone like Joan Collins never seems to go away.

Her controlling husband concocted a very pliant, retro, “feminine” persona for her (when she’s not on a stupid motorcycle) and that didn’t exactly keep her at the forefront.

The most younger people know her from is probably that running moment about her in Bye Bye Birdie from Mad Men.

R41 misstates the marital relationship and the reasonable branding and marketing that kept her in front of people when her talents were perhaps less suited for another approach.

The older she's gotten the better I like her. Can't take her early work, with Birdie being the lowest as she was pushed as the star despite her role and capacity not really being all that.

I hated Carnal Knowledge.

Really?? It’s about the only good movie she’s in.

Remember when they were calling Lindsay Lohan “the new Ann Margret” in 2005?

What was that quote of hers (in the 70s??) where she said, “When a man tells me I’m sexy I know it’s the highest compliment he can pay me”?

And some are confused as to how she became a relic?

I mean couldn’t that sentence describe most of Marilyn Monroe’s characters? And yet the younger generation loves her.

you just know she'll be posting full frontal nudies and thirst traps before you can say, "nobody does it better"

If Ann were young and acting today you know she’d go crazy on TikTok and Instagram. Ann in her prime shits on the young movie stars today.

Edie Adams once walked into Eddie Fisher’s Las Vegas dressing room and found Ann-Margret on her knees giving Eddie a blow job.

I don’t know if it was patriotic or just garish when she entertained troops in Vietnam in a barely there skirt and thong. Was it really necessary?

I guess she really, really, really wanted that “highest compliment men could give her.”

[quote]R48 I mean couldn’t that sentence describe most of Marilyn Monroe’s characters? And yet the younger generation loves her.

Most people would like to be considered sexy, and performers as a rule strive for it. But women usually resent being valued in only that way - maybe because often it’s the only attention they’re freely given.

Monroe tried to improve her mind and acting skills, risking a lot. Ann-Margret swallowed it hook, line and sinker, willingly disappearing in it, and that makes her extremely old fashioned.