Ann Savage
Ann Savage, the actress who played an evil, unredeemable femme fatale who makes life hell for Tom Neal in the 1945 B-noir Detour (see clip), died in her sleep at a nursing home on Christmas Day from complications following a series of strokes. She was 87.
Savage had a minor career in films of the 1940s, with Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour as her sole claim to fame — unless one also counts her latter-day comeback in Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg, playing the director’s mother, which was released last year.
Among Savage’s other features are the B musical Ever Since Venus (1944); Sam Newfield’s film noir Apology for Murder (1945), in which she plays another schemer; the crime thriller The [...]
by Andre Soares | December 29, 2008
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