Ann Savage

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Ann Savage in diversion (1945)

Ann Savage (* 19th February 1921 as Bernice Maxine Lyon in Columbia , South Carolina ; † 25. December 2008 in Hollywood , California ) was an American film actress .

Life

After the early death of her father, Bernice Maxine Lyon moved with her mother from South Carolina to Los Angeles. She took acting lessons from Max Reinhardt , who also gave her the stage name Ann Savage . The attractive blonde made her film debut with Columbia Pictures in 1943 . She was denied significant roles in big films, instead she mostly worked as a leading lady in B-films and as a popular pin-up model. The actress achieved lasting fame in 1945 in the role of the vicious hitchhiker Vera in the film noir diversion from Edgar G. Ulmer . With other, mostly cheaply produced crime films, she established her image as a femme fatale .

In total, Savage appeared in nearly 40 films between 1943 and 1955; thereafter she was only seen twice on the big screen: 1986 in Fire with Fire and in a celebrated comeback in 2007 in My Winnipeg by director Guy Maddin . After the death of her third husband in 1969, she worked as a legal assistant, and in 1979 she obtained a pilot's license. Most recently she lived in a retirement home for actors in Los Angeles, where she died at Christmas 2008 at the age of 87. She was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1943: One Dangerous Night
  • 1943: Always more, always happier (The More the Merrier)
  • 1943: Passport to Suez
  • 1944: Dancing in Manhattan
  • 1945: Midnight Manhunt
  • 1945: diversion (detour)
  • 1946: Lady Chaser
  • 1946: Renegade Girl
  • 1949: Cisco I - Cisco, Satan's Cradle
  • 1950: Bush devil in the jungle (Pygmy Island)
  • 1950–1952: Fireside Theater (TV series, four episodes)
  • 1953: On the death over (Woman They Almost Lynched)
  • 1986: Fire with Fire - Forbidden Passion (Fire with Fire)
  • 1991: California High School (TV series, episode)
  • 2007: My Winnipeg

Web links

Commons : Ann Savage  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jan/07/obituary-ann-savage
  2. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4077273/Ann-Savage.html
personal data
SURNAME Savage, Ann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lyon, Bernice Maxine (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbia , South Carolina , United States
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2008
Place of death Hollywood , Los Angeles , California , United States