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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

40

Gender

Female

Birthday

1921-02-19

Day of Death

2008-12-25 (87 years old)

Place of Birth

Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Also Known As

Berniece Maxine Lyon

Ann Savage

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ann Savage (February 19, 1921 – December 25, 2008) was an American film and television actress. She is best-remembered as the cigarette-puffing femme fatale in the critically acclaimed film noir Detour (1945), and starred in more than twenty B movies between 1943 and 1946. Effectively leaving the film business in the mid-1950s, Savage made occasional appearances on television and worked for industrial and inspirational film producers during the 1950s - 1970s. She made a number of live appearances at film festivals, especially for screenings of Detour, and in 1986, she returned to film with an appearance in Fire with Fire (AKA Captive Hearts) and as a guest on the television series Saved by the Bell. In 2007, she was cast by director Guy Maddin as his mother in My Winnipeg, "a part that had been tipped to bring her an Academy Award and which introduced her to a legion of new fans." Description above from the Wikipedia article Ann Savage (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Acting

Footlight Glamour

1943

Footlight Glamour

as

Vicki Wheeler

Detour

1945

Detour

as

Vera

Midnight Manhunt

1945

Midnight Manhunt

as

Sue Gallagher

My Winnipeg

2008

My Winnipeg

as

Mother

Apology for Murder

1945

Apology for Murder

as

Toni Kirkland

Scared Stiff

1945

Scared Stiff

as

Sally Warren

The Spider

1945

The Spider

as

Florence Cain

Los Angeles Plays Itself

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself

as

Vera in Detour (archive footage)

The Last Crooked Mile

1946

The Last Crooked Mile

as

Sheila Kennedy

Pier 23

1951

Pier 23

as

Ann Harmon

Renegade Girl

1946

Renegade Girl

as

Jean Shelby

Passport to Suez

1943

Passport to Suez

as

Valerie King

Pygmy Island

1950

Pygmy Island

as

Capt. Ann R. Kingsley

What a Woman

1943

What a Woman

as

Jane Hughes

Jungle Flight

1947

Jungle Flight

as

Laurey Roberts

Two-Man Submarine

1944

Two-Man Submarine

as

Pat Benson

Saddles and Sagebrush

1943

Saddles and Sagebrush

as

Ann Parker

The Unwritten Code

1944

The Unwritten Code

as

Mary Lee Norris

Klondike Kate

1943

Klondike Kate

as

Kathleen O'Day

Dancing in Manhattan

1944

Dancing in Manhattan

as

Valerie Crawford

The Dark Horse

1946

The Dark Horse

as

Mary Burton

The More the Merrier

1943

The More the Merrier

as

Miss Dalton (uncredited)

The Last Horseman

1944

The Last Horseman

as

Judy Ware

Ever Since Venus

1944

Ever Since Venus

as

Janet Wilson

Dangerous Blondes

1943

Dangerous Blondes

as

Erika McCormick

Lady Chaser

1946

Lady Chaser

as

Inez Marie Polk/Palmer

Murder in Times Square

1943

Murder in Times Square

as

Miss Ruth

Fire with Fire

1986

Fire with Fire

as

Sister Harriet

Saved by the Bell

Saved by the Bell

as

Mrs. Thornhill (uncredited)

Death Valley Days

Death Valley Days

as

Diamond Babe

Production

Crew

Directing