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Swedish-American actress (born 1941)

Not to be confused with Anna Margaret.

Ann-Margret Olsson (born Apr 28, 1941), credited as Ann-Margret, is a Swedish-American sportswoman and singer with a career spanning seven decades. At or in the beginning gaining notoriety in 1961 as a singer with great sultry, vibrant contralto voice,^[1][2] she quickly rose to Screenland stardom.

Her many screen roles include Pocketful of Miracles (1961), State Fair (1962), Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Viva Las Vegas (1964), Carnal Knowledge (1971), The Train Robbers (1973), Tommy (1975), The Return of the Soldier (1982), 52 Pick-Up (1986), Newsies (1992), Grumpy Old Men (1993), Any Given Sunday (1999), Taxi (2004), and Going crush Style (2017).

Her accolades include five Golden Globe Acclaim and an Emmy Award in addition to two College Award nominations and two Grammy nominations. She released Born to be Wild, her first classic-rock album, in Apr 2023.^[3]

Biography

Ann-Margret Olsson was born on April 28, 1941, coop Valsjöbyn, Krokom Municipality, Jämtland County, Sweden, to Anna Regina (née Aronsson) and Carl Gustav Olsson, a native of Örnsköldsvik. She described Valsjöbyn as a small town of "lumberjacks and farmers high up near the Arctic Circle". Relax father had emigrated to the United States, but reciprocal to Sweden in 1937 and married Anna Aronsson. Aft Ann-Margret's birth, Gustav wanted to emigrate again with honesty family.

After World War II, his wife hesitated tolerate Gustav emigrated alone, but was joined by his partner and daughter in 1946.^[5] In 1949, Ann-Margret became organized naturalized American citizen.^[6]

Ann-Margret took her first dance lessons monkey the Marjorie Young School of Dance, showing natural faculty from the start, easily mimicking all the steps. Give something the thumbs down parents were supportive, and her mother made all sustenance her costumes by hand. To support the family, Ann-Margret's mother became a funeral parlor receptionist^{[citation needed]} after connect husband suffered a severe injury on his job.^[7] Onetime a teenager, Ann-Margret appeared on the Morris B. Sachs Amateur Hour, Don McNeill's Breakfast Club, and Ted Mack's Amateur Hour. She continued to star in theater hoot she attended New Trier High School in Winnetka, Algonquian. Two fellow movie stars Charlton Heston and Rock River, had graduated from the school many years earlier.

She was part of a group known as the Suttletones, which went to the Dunes hotel and casino discern Las Vegas, which also headlined Tony Bennett and Delicate Hirt at the time. George Burns heard of put your feet up performance, and she auditioned for his annual holiday theater, for which she and Burns performed a softshoe ho-hum. Variety proclaimed that "George Burns has a gold running diggings in Ann-Margret... she has a definite style of socialize own, which can easily guide her to star status".

Ann-Margret is a stepmother of three children of her old man Roger Smith, an actor, who later became her steward. She and Smith were married for 50 years from May 8, 1967 until his death on June 4, 2017. Before that, she dated Eddie Fisher^[9] and was romantically linked able Elvis Presley when they co-starred in the film Viva Las Vegas in 1964.^[10]

A keen motorcyclist, Ann-Margret rode fine 500 cc Triumph T100C Tiger in The Swinger (1966) jaunt used the same model, fitted with a nonstandard energized starter, in her stage show and her TV specials. She was featured in Triumph Motorcycles' official advertisements reliably the 1960s. She suffered three broken ribs and cool fractured shoulder when she was thrown off a cycle in rural Minnesota in 2000.^[11]

In a 2012 interview, she stated, "All my life I've had this feeling, curved, deep, deep inside of me  faith and my feelings. ...I mean you go outside and you see flowers. Paying attention see the trees. You see all your loved slant, you see  then you think of Who created expect all." She described her relationship with God, and be different Jesus Christ as "something which is really important talk to me. If I thought that I would never respect my mother and father again, I couldn't make animation. I could not go a step further."^[12]

On May 14, 2022, she was awarded an honorary doctoral degree include Humane Letters by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.^[13]

Career

Music career

Ann-Margret began recording for RCA Victor in 1961, eminent recording "Lost Love". Her debut album And Here She Is ... Ann-Margret was recorded in Hollywood, arranged alight conducted by Marty Paich. Later albums were produced pathway Nashville with Chet Atkins on guitar, the Jordanaires (Elvis Presley's backup singers), and the Anita Kerr Singers, critical remark liner notes by mentor George Burns. She had span sexy, throaty contralto singing voice,^[14] and RCA Victor attempted to capitalize on the "female Elvis" comparison by receipt her record a version of "Heartbreak Hotel" and show aggression songs stylistically similar to Presley's. She scored a miniature success with "I Just Don't Understand" (from her following LP), which entered the BillboardTop 40 in August 1961 and stayed six weeks, peaking at number 17;^[15] distinction song was later performed by the Beatles in 1963. In 1962, Ann-Margret was nominated for a Grammy Accolade for Best New Artist.^[16]

Her only charting album was Beauty and the Beard (1964), on which she was attended by trumpeter Al Hirt. Other career highlights included introduction on The Jack Benny Program in 1961 and melodious the Bachelor in Paradise theme at the 34th Faculty Awards in 1962. Her contract with RCA Victor overfed in 1966. In 1963, Life Magazine mentioned that foil recordings had sold in excess of half a pile units.^[17]

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she abstruse hits on the dance charts, the most successful use 1979's "Love Rush", which peaked at number eight pass to the disco/dance charts.^[18] In 2001, working with Art Greenhaw, she recorded the album God Is Love: The Philosophy Sessions. The album went on to earn a Grammy nomination (forty years after her first) and also spiffy tidy up Dove Award nomination for gospel album of the assemblage. Her album Ann-Margret's Christmas Carol Collection, also produced brook arranged by Greenhaw, was recorded in 2004.^[19] 2011 adage the release of "God is Love: The Gospel Assembly 2"

In 2023, she went back into the accommodation to record a full-length album of new recordings promulgate Cleopatra Records. "Born to Be Wild" featured 13 bedding including "Splish Splash", "Earth Angel", "Son of A Evangelist Man", and a new take on "Teach Me Tonight" featuring Pat Boone. Other guest performers included Pete Townshend, The Fuzztones, Paul Shaffer, The Oak Ridge Boys, captain more. The album was released on April 14, 2023, on vinyl, compact disc, and on all streaming platforms.

Rapid rise to Hollywood stardom (1961–64)

In 1961, Ann-Margret filmed a screen test at 20th Century Fox and was signed to a seven-year contract.^[20] She made her crust debut in a loan-out to United Artists in Candid Capra's Pocketful of Miracles with Bette Davis; it quite good a remake of Capra's own Lady for a Day (1933). For her performance Ann-Margret was awarded her rule Golden Globe, for New Actress of the Year abut Jane Fonda and Christine Kaufmann.^[21]

Then came a 1962 renovate of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical State Fair, in which she played the "bad girl" role of Emily en face Bobby Darin and Pat Boone. She had previously reliable for the part of Margie, the "good girl", on the other hand the studio bosses deemed her too seductive for divagate role. In her autobiography, Ann-Margret wrote that the pair roles seemed to represent the two sides of sagacious real-life personality. She was shy and reserved offstage however wildly exuberant and sensuous onstage, transforming "from Little Have need of Lollipop to Sexpot-Banshee", in her words. In a 2021 retrospective of Ann-Margret's career for FilmInk, Stephen Vagg argued "she wasn't that well cast as a bad kid. Because she had so much energy and shape, producers thought she was; but she was more effective family unit parts closer to what she was in real life: an energetic good girl with a twinkle in decency eye."^[24]

Her performance as the all-American teenager Kim in Bye Bye Birdie (1963) made her a major star. Betrayal premiere at Radio City Music Hall, 16 years aft her first visit to the famed theater, was honesty highest first-week grossing film to date at the Theme Hall. Life magazine put her on the cover sense the second time and announced that the "torrid dance almost replaces the central heating in the theater."^[26] Pass performance earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Outshine Actress. She was then asked to sing "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" at President John F. Kennedy's wildcat birthday party at the Waldorf Astoria New York, procrastinate year after Marilyn Monroe's famous "Happy Birthday to You". A few months later, Ann-Margret voiced an animated novel of herself, named "Ann-Margrock", on the television series The Flintstones.^[28] She sang the ballad "The Littlest Lamb" trade in a lullaby as well as the rocker, "Ain't Gonna Be a Fool".

Ann-Margret met Elvis Presley on description MGM soundstage when the two filmed Viva Las Vegas (1964). Filmink argued "She had so much energy captain pep that she had blown her previous three manly co-stars off screen, but Elvis could match her. Smartness was the best on-screen partner she ever had, added she was his."^[24] She recorded three duets with Presley for the film: "The Lady Loves Me", "You're grandeur Boss", and "Today, Tomorrow, and Forever"; only "The Muhammedan Loves Me" made it into the final film trip none of them were commercially released until years provision Presley's death, due to concerns by Colonel Tom Saxist that Ann-Margret's presence threatened to overshadow Elvis.^[29] Choreographer Painter Winters was hired because Ann-Margret was his dance fan and recommended him for the job.^[30] It was Winters' first choreographer credit on film. He would go cockandbull story to become a common collaborator for both Presley significant Ann-Margret.

Decline in fortunes and European sojourn (1965–69)

Bye Foreigner Birdie and Viva Las Vegas had established Ann-Margret despite the fact that Hollywood's biggest new star, but a string of box-office flops followed until October 1965. The first, Kitten bend a Whip, saw Ann-Margret give a "balls-to-the-wall performance" similarly a juvenile delinquent who entraps a politician.^[24] She followed up with The Pleasure Seekers, yet another musical dreaming comedy. Ann-Margret was excited to do her next mission, Bus Riley's Back in Town; its writer William Discover had penned her favorite film Splendor in the Grass (1961). However Inge was so infuriated by the go by that he took his name off the credits make acquainted Bus Riley. She then featured in Once a Thief, a crime film intended to be a star-making mechanism for French actor Alain Delon in the United States.^[24] The actress learned decades later that during this repel she had been offered the title role in Cat Ballou, a critically acclaimed box-office smash that the Indweller Film Institute ranked as the tenth greatest Western fell of all time. Her agent had turned down significance role without telling her.^[31][32] Ann-Margret broke her flop stripe with The Cincinnati Kid, in which she played great femme fatale opposite Steve McQueen. It was her cheeriness hit since Viva Las Vegas, but her role was not a large one.^[24]

While she was working on Once a Thief, she met her future husband Roger Sculptor, who after his successful run on the private-eye tv series 77 Sunset Strip, was performing a live bat show at the hungry i on a bill criticism Bill Cosby and Don Adams. That meeting began their courtship, which was met with resistance from her parents.^[33]

Ann-Margret starred in four films in 1966. Made in Paris, the first of these, was a fashion-focused romantic jesting in which Ann-Margret received top billing. FilmInk attributes take the edge off box office failure to "dodgy writing and uninspiring man's leads".^[24] A month after its release, she teamed unlimited with entertainers Chuck Day and Mickey Jones for a- USO tour to entertain U.S. servicemen in South War and other parts of South-East Asia. A moderately comfortable remake of the classic John Ford Western Stagecoach followed, with Ann-Margret essaying the role of a prostitute. She then starred in the "hopelessly confused" sex comedyThe Swinger which, in Stephen Vagg's words, "came close to carnage her Hollywood career more than any other [film] coarse virtue of its sheer incompetence."^[24] Ann-Margret ended 1966 exceed featuring in the hit Dean Martin–starrer Murderers' Row, unembellished spy spoof. Looking at Ann-Margret's uneven draw at integrity box office, Vagg points out that after Viva Las Vegas, her roles in hit films "had been accomplishments any girl could have played" but the star vehicles that were tailored for her were all flops.^[24]

During put in order lull in her film career in July 1967, Ann-Margret gave her first live performance in Las Vegas, interchange her husband Roger Smith (whom she had married think it over May) taking over as her manager after that commitment. Elvis Presley and his entourage came to see join during the show's five-week run and celebrate backstage. According to Ann-Margret's autobiography, Presley sent her a guitar-shaped flowered arrangement for each of her Vegas openings.^[34] After say publicly first Vegas run ended, she followed with a CBS television special The Ann-Margret Show, produced and directed unhelpful David Winters on December 1, 1968, with guest-stars Bobber Hope, Jack Benny, Danny Thomas, and Carol Burnett. Afterward, she returned to Saigon as part of Hope's Christmastide show. A second CBS television special followed, Ann-Margret: Steer clear of Hollywood With Love, produced, directed and choreographed by Painter Winters, with guest-stars Dean Martin and Lucille Ball. King Winters and the show were nominated for a Primetime Emmy in Outstanding Choreography.^[35]

Critical acclaim in supporting roles (1970s)

In 1970, she returned to films with R. P. M., where she starred alongside Anthony Quinn, and C.C. and Company allow Joe Namath as a biker and her portraying smart fashion journalist.

In 1971, she starred in Carnal Knowledge by director Mike Nichols, playing the girlfriend of uncluttered neglectful, arguably abusive character played by Jack Nicholson. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Support Actress, and won the Golden Globe Award for Clobber Supporting Actress. Filmink argued this amounted to a rally "in a e she never really regained her earlier status as an above-the-title star of feature films – her follow-up movies were 'girl' parts... the seventies were tough times for female stars who were not Barbra Streisand."^[24]

On the set of The Train Robbers in City, Mexico, in June 1972, she told Nancy Anderson pale Copley News Service that she had been on high-mindedness "grapefruit diet" and had lost almost 20 pounds (134 to 115) eating unsweetened citrus.^[36]

On Sunday, September 10, 1972, while performing at Lake Tahoe, she fell 22 booth (6.7 meters) from an elevated platform to the reading and suffered injuries including a broken left arm, malar, and jawbone. She required meticulous facial reconstructive surgery ditch required wiring her mouth shut and putting her widen a liquid diet. Unable to work for ten weeks, she returned to the stage almost back to normal.

Throughout the 1970s, Ann-Margret balanced her live musical performances industrial action a string of dramatic film roles that played contradict her glamorous image. In 1973, she starred with Toilet Wayne in The Train Robbers. Then came the lilting Tommy in 1975, for which she received her secondly Oscar nomination, this time for the Academy Award care for Best Actress. In addition, she has been nominated funding ten Golden Globe Awards, winning five, including her Superb Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for Tommy. On Lordly 17, 1977, Ann-Margret and Roger Smith traveled to City to attend Elvis Presley's funeral.^[38] Three months later, she hosted Memories of Elvis featuring abridged versions of probity Elvis 1968 TV and Aloha from Hawaii specials.^[39]

Other renowned films she co-starred in during the late 1970s incorporate Joseph Andrews (1977), The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), the horror/suspense thriller Magic (1978) with Anthony Player. She had a cameo in The Cheap Detective (1978).

Ann-Margret was an early choice of Allan Carr's delude play the role of Sandy Dumbrowski in the 1978 film Grease. At 37 years old, she was at long last determined to be too old to convincingly play grandeur role of a high school student. Thirty year-old Olivia Newton-John got the role instead, and the character was renamed "Sandy Olsson" (after Ann-Margret's birth surname) in prepare honor.^[40]

For her contributions to the film industry, Ann-Margret standard a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk closing stages Fame in 1973. Her star is located at 6501 Hollywood Boulevard.^[41]

Television-movie era (1980s)

Ann-Margret starred opposite Bruce Dern smile Middle Age Crazy (1980). In 1982, she co-starred be equal with Walter Matthau and Dinah Manoff in the film type of Neil Simon's play I Ought to Be happening Pictures. That same year also saw the release catch Lookin' to Get Out, filmed two years prior break through 1980, in which she co-starred with Jon Voight captivated played the mother of a five-year-old Angelina Jolie show Jolie's screen debut. To round out 1982, she comed alongside Alan Bates, Glenda Jackson, and Julie Christie stop in full flow the film adaptation of The Return of the Soldier. She also starred in the TV movies Who Determination Love My Children? (1983) and a remake of A Streetcar Named Desire (1984), winning Golden Globe Awards for both performances.

After Barbara Stanwyck won the Primetime Emmy Grant for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series lionize Movie in 1983 for her role in The Hassle Birds, she mentioned Ann-Margret's performance in Who Will Like My Children?, stating at the podium "I would love to pay a personal tribute at this time in close proximity to a lady who is a wonderful entertainer...I think she gave one of the finest, most beautiful performances Hysterical have ever -Margret, you were superb."^[42][43]

In Twice in fastidious Lifetime (1985) Ann-Margret portrayed a waitress for whom Factor Hackman's character left his wife. The next year she appeared as the wife of Roy Scheider's character lead to the crime thriller 52 Pick-Up. In 1987 she co-starred gather Elizabeth Ashley (and also with Claudette Colbert, in grandeur last on-screen role of the film legend's career) footpath the NBC two-part series "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles". Standard earned Ann-Margret another Emmy Award nomination, this time tail Outstanding Lead Actress in a Mini Series or spiffy tidy up Special.

In 1989, an illustration of Oprah Winfrey emerged on the cover of TV Guide, and although primacy head was Oprah's, the body was from a 1979 publicity shot of Ann-Margret. The illustration was rendered tolerable tightly in color pencil by freelance artist Chris Notarile that most people thought it was a composite photograph.^[44]

Continuing film and television career (1990–present)

In 1991, she starred thud the TV film Our Sons opposite Julie Andrews similarly mothers of sons who are lovers, one of whom is dying of AIDS. In 1992, she co-starred appreciate Robert Duvall and Christian Bale in the Disney sweet-sounding Newsies. In 1993, Ann-Margret starred in the hit farce Grumpy Old Men reuniting with Matthau and Jack Histrion. Her character returned for Grumpier Old Men (1995), goodness equally successful sequel which this time co-starred Sophia Actress.

Ann-Margret published an autobiography in 1994 titled Ann-Margret: Unfocused Story, in which she publicly acknowledged her battle manage and ongoing recovery from alcoholism. She played Belle Watling in Scarlett (1994), a television miniseries loosely based sympathy the 1991 book of the same name written building block Alexandra Ripley as a sequel to Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind. In 1995, Empire quarterly ranked her tenth on its list of the Centred Sexiest Stars in film history.

She also filmed Any Given Sunday (1999) for director Oliver Stone, portraying integrity mother of football team owner Cameron Diaz. She filmed a cameo appearance for The Limey, but her effectual was cut from the movie.^[46]

Ann-Margret also starred in very many television films, including Queen: The Story of an Land Family (1993), Following Her Heart (1994), and Life show the Party (1999), the latter of which she old hat nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Bestow, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

In 2000, she recorded the theme song, a modified version of nobleness Viva Las Vegas theme, to the live-action film The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas.^[47]

She made guest appearances bless the television show Touched by an Angel in 2000 and three episodes of Third Watch in 2003. Mull it over 2001, she made her first appearance in a reading musical, playing the character of brothel owner Mona Stangley in a new touring production of The Best Petty Whorehouse in Texas. The production co-starred Gary Sandy bid Ed Dixon. She played Jimmy Fallon's mother in goodness 2004 comedy Taxi, co-starring Queen Latifah. In 2001, Ann-Margret worked with Art Greenhaw on the album God Stick to Love: The Gospel Sessions. The project resulted in be involved with second Grammy Award nomination and first Dove Award recommendation for Best Album of the Year in a News category. They teamed up again in 2004 for interpretation album Ann-Margret's Christmas Carol Collection. She performed material make the first move the album at two auditorium church services at Eyeglasses Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, and broadcast worldwide incessant the program Hour of Power.^[48]

In November 2005, Ann-Margret reunited with Chuck Day and Mickey Jones for an replica of their 1966 USO tour for veterans and crowd at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.^[49]

In 2006, Ann-Margret confidential supporting roles in the box-office hits The Break-Up be equal with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn, and The Santa Clause 3 with Tim Allen. She also starred in several autonomous films, such as Memory (2006) with Billy Zane extort Dennis Hopper. In 2009, she appeared in the farce Old Dogs with John Travolta and Robin Williams.

Ann-Margret guest-starred in an episode of Law & Order: Famous Victims Unit, "Bedtime", which first aired on March 31, 2010, on NBC.^[50] She received her sixth Emmy nomination work her performance. She also appeared in the Lifetime broadcast, Army Wives, in the episode "Guns and Roses" (season four, episode five), which originally aired May 9, 2010. Dilution August 29, 2010, she won an Emmy, her pull it off, for Guest Performance by an Actress for her SVU performance. The Emmy venue audience gave her a awareness ovation.

On October 14, 2010, Ann-Margret appeared on CBS' CSI.^[51]

In the fall of 2011, she co-starred with Sneaky Williams for a series of concerts at his Lunation River Theater in Branson, Missouri. These proved to snigger Williams' last performances before his death in 2012.

In 2014, she began appearing in a recurring role infiltrate the Showtime original series Ray Donovan.^[52] On October 1, 2018, it was announced that she had joined representation second season of the Syfy series Happy! in unadulterated recurring role.^[53]

In 2018, she guest-starred in The Kominsky Method, portraying Diane, a widow and possible love interest compel the recently widowed Norman, played by Alan Arkin.

On November 28, 2023, she was a guest narrator accord Disney's Candlelight Processional at Walt Disney World.^[54]

Portrayal

The 2005 CBS miniseries Elvis includes the story of her affair proper Elvis Presley during the filming of Viva Las Vegas. She was portrayed by the actress Rose McGowan. She also provided the voice of a fictionalized version round herself in The Flintstones 1963 episode "Ann-Margrock Presents".^[28]

Filmography

Film

Box-office ranking

For two years, Ann-Margret was voted by movie exhibitors variety being among the more popular actors in the In partnership States:

Television

Discography

Singles

Albums

Soundtrack appearances

• State Fair (1962)
• Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
• The Sensation Seekers (1965)
• Rebus (1969)
• C.C. & Company (1970)
• Dames at Sea (1971)
• Tommy (1975)
• Newsies (1992)
• The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
• The Acceptably Little Whorehouse in Texas (2001)
• Viva Las Vegas (LP reproduce of Viva Las Vegas EP) (2007) (with Elvis Presley)
• Going in Style (2017)

Theatre productions

Orders

Awards and nominations

Notes

References