ANN-MARGRET VIVA LAS VEGAS 1964 5X7 COLOR CAMERA TRANSPARENCY BY VIRGIL APGER

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ANN-MARGRET VIVA LAS VEGAS 1964 5X7 COLOR CAMERA TRANSPARENCY BY VIRGIL APGER
DESCRIPTION:
Original vintage 5 in. x 7 in. color camera transparency on Kodak safety film of
ANN-MARGRET
in a gorgeous portrait for the
ELVIS PRESLEY
film,
Viva Las Vegas
(M-G-M, 1964), taken by renowned studio portrait photographer
VIRGIL APGER
. With studio production number 10 A SP PROD 1812 AGER 1 in the left border.
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SIZE:
5" X 7"
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TONE:
color
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ANN-MARGRET BIO
(born April 28, 1941) is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose professional name is
Ann-Margret
. She became famous for her starring roles in
Bye Bye Birdie
,
Viva Las Vegas
,
The Cincinnati Kid
,
Carnal Knowledge
, and
Tommy
. Her later career includes character roles in
Grumpy Old Men
,
Any Given Sunday
,
The Santa Clause 3
, and
The Break-Up
. She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards. On August 21, 2010, she won her first Emmy Award for her guest appearance on
Law & Order: SVU
.
Ann-Margret was born in Stockholm, the daughter of Anna (née Aronsson) and Gustav Olsson, a native of Örnsköldsvik. While young she moved with her parents to Valsjöbyn, Jämtlands län, which she later described as a small town "of lumberjacks and farmers high up near the Arctic Circle". Her father worked in the United States during his youth and moved there again in 1942, working with the Johnson Electrical Company, while his wife and daughter stayed behind.
Ann-Margret and her mother moved to the United States in November 1946, and her father took her to Radio City Music Hall on the day they arrived. They settled just outside of Chicago in Wilmette, Illinois. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1949 and took her first dance lessons at the Marjorie Young School of Dance, showing natural ability from the start, easily mimicking all the steps. Her parents were supportive and her mother handmade all her costumes. Ann-Margret's mother became a funeral parlor receptionist after her husband suffered a severe injury on his job. While a teenager, Ann-Margret appeared on the Morris B. Sachs
Amateur Hour
, Don McNeill's
Breakfast Club
and Ted Mack's
Amateur Hour
.
Through high school, where she graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, she continued to star in theatricals. She attended Northwestern University, where she was a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta but did not graduate. As part of a group known as the "Suttletones," they performed at the Mist, a Chicago nightclub, and went to Las Vegas for a promised club date which fell through after they arrived. They plugged ahead to Los Angeles and, through agent Georgia Lund, secured club dates in Newport Beach and Reno, where Ann-Margret had a chance encounter with Marilyn Monroe, who was on location for
The Misfits
. Monroe noticed the striking girl in a crowd of onlookers, then chatted privately with her, offering her encouragement.
The group finally arrived at The Dunes in Las Vegas, which also headlined Tony Bennett and Al Hirt at that time. George Burns heard of her performance and she auditioned for his annual holiday show, in which she and Burns did a softshoe routine.
Variety
proclaimed, "George Burns has a gold mine in Ann-Margret...she has a definite style of her own, which can easily guide her to star status."
Ann-Margret began recording for RCA in 1961. Her first RCA recording was "Lost Love" from her debut album
And Here She Is: Ann-Margret
, produced in Nashville with Chet Atkins on guitar, the Jordanaires (Elvis Presley's backup singers), and the Anita Kerr Singers, with liner notes by mentor George Burns. She had a sexy, throaty singing voice, and RCA attempted to capitalize on the 'female Elvis' comparison by having her record a version of "Heartbreak Hotel" and other songs stylistically similar to Presley's. She scored the minor hit "I Just Don't Understand" (from her second LP), which entered the Billboard Top 40 in the third week of August 1961 and stayed six weeks, peaking at #17. The song was later covered in live performances by The Beatles, who never officially recorded any version of the song. Her only charting album was
The Beauty and the Beard
(1964), on which she was accompanied by trumpeter Al Hirt. She also sang at the Academy Awards presentation in 1962, singing the Oscar-nominated song "Theme from Bachelor in Paradise." Her contract with RCA ended in 1966. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she had hits on the dance charts, the most successful being 1979's "Love Rush," which peaked at #8 on the disco/dance charts.
In 1961, she filmed a screen test at 20th Century Fox and was signed to a seven-year contract. Ann-Margret made her film debut in a loan-out to United Artists in
Pocketful of Miracles
, with Bette Davis. It was a remake of the 1933 movie
Lady for a Day
. Both versions were directed by Frank Capra.
Then came a 1962 remake of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical
State Fair
, playing the "bad girl" role of Emily opposite Bobby Darin and Pat Boone. She had tested for the part of Margy, the "good girl," but she seemed too seductive to the studio bosses, who decided on the switch. The two roles mimicked her real-life personality ? shy and reserved offstage, but wildly exuberant and sensuous onstage. As she summed up in her autobiography, she would easily transform herself from "Little Miss Lollipop to Sexpot-Banshee" once she stepped on stage and the music began.
Her next starring role, as the all-American teenager Kim from Sweet Apple, Ohio, in
Bye Bye Birdie
(1963) made her a major star. The premiere at Radio City Music Hall, 16 years after her first visit to the famed theater, was a smash hit: the highest first-week grossing film to date at that venue.
Life
magazine put her on the cover for the second time and announced that the "torrid dancing almost replaces the central heating in the theater." She was asked to sing "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" at President John F. Kennedy's private birthday party at the Waldorf-Astoria, one year after Marilyn Monroe's famous "Happy Birthday."
Ann-Margret met Elvis Presley on the MGM soundstage when the two filmed
Viva Las Vegas
(1964).
In 1963, Ann-Margret guest-starred in a popular episode of the animated TV series
The Flintstones
, voicing Ann-Margrock, an animated version of herself. She sang the ballad "
The Littlest Lamb
" as a lullaby and the (literally) rock-ing song, "
Ain't Gonna Be a Fool
." Decades later, she recorded the theme song, a modified version of the
Viva Las Vegas
theme, to the live-action film
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
in character as Ann-Margrock.
While working on the film
Once a Thief
(1965), she met future husband Roger Smith, who, after his successful run on the private-eye television series
77 Sunset Strip
, was performing a live club show at the Hungry i on a bill with Bill Cosby and Don Adams. That meeting began their courtship, which met with resistance from her parents.
Ann-Margret starred in
The Cincinnati Kid
in 1965 opposite Steve McQueen. She also co-starred along with friend Dean Martin in the spy spoof
Murderers' Row
(1966).
Her redhead hair color (she is a "natural brunette") was the idea of Sydney Guilaroff, a hairdresser who changed the hair color of other famous actresses such as Lucille Ball.
She was offered the title role in
Cat Ballou
(1965), but her manager turned it down without telling her. In March 1966, Ann-Margret and entertainers Chuck Day and Mickey Jones teamed up for a USO tour to entertain U.S. servicemen in remote parts of Vietnam and other parts of Southeast Asia. She still has great affection for the veterans and refers to them as "my gentlemen." Ann-Margret, Day and Jones reunited in November 2005 for an encore of this tour for veterans and troops at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
During a lull in her film career in the late 1960s, she performed live in Las Vegas, with her husband Roger Smith (whom she had married in 1967) taking over as her manager after that engagement. Elvis and his entourage came to see her during the show's five-week run and to celebrate backstage. She followed that up with a television special on December 1, 1968, with guest-stars Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Danny Thomas, and Carol Burnett. Then she went back to Saigon as part of Hope's Christmas show. A second television special followed with Dean Martin and Lucille Ball. In 1970, she returned to films with
R.P.M.
and
C.C. and Company
.
In 1971, she starred in Mike Nichols'
Carnal Knowledge
, playing the over-loving girlfriend of a viciously abusive Jack Nicholson and garnering a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
On the set of
The Train Robbers
in Durango, Mexico, in June 1972, she told Nancy Anderson of Copley News Service that she had been on the "grapefruit diet" and had lost almost twenty pounds (134 to 115) eating unsweetened citrus.
On Sunday, September 10, 1972, while performing at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, she fell 22 feet from an elevated platform to the stage and suffered injuries including a broken left arm, cheekbone and jawbone. Husband Roger Smith flew a stolen plane from Burbank, California, to Lake Tahoe in order to get his wife to the surgeons at the medical center at UCLA for treatment. She required meticulous facial reconstructive surgery that required wiring her mouth shut and putting her on a liquid diet. Unable to work for ten weeks, she ultimately returned to the stage almost (some would say miraculously) back to normal.
Throughout the 1970s, Ann-Margret balanced her live musical performances with a string of dramatic film roles that played against her glamorous image. In 1973 she starred with John Wayne in
The Train Robbers
. Then came the musical
Tommy
in 1975, for which she was nominated the Academy Award for Best Actress. In addition, she has been nominated for 10 Golden Globe Awards and has won five, including her Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for
Tommy.
She also did a string of successful TV specials, starting with
The Ann-Margret Show
for NBC in 1968.
In 1978, she co-starred with Anthony Hopkins in the horror/suspense thriller
Magic
.
In 1982, Ann-Margret co-starred with Walter Matthau and Dinah Manoff in the film version of Neil Simon's play
I Ought to Be in Pictures
. That same year, she appeared with a six-year-old Angelina Jolie in
Lookin' to Get Out
, playing Jolie's mother. To round out 1982, she appeared alongside Alan Bates, Glenda Jackson, and Julie Christie in the film adaptation of
The Return of the Soldier
. She also starred in the TV movies
Who Will Love My Children?
(1983) and a remake of
A Streetcar Named Desire
(1984). These performances collectively won her two Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy nominations. She appeared as the wife of Roy Scheider's character in the 1986 crime thriller
52 Pick-Up
.
In 1989, an illustration was done of Oprah Winfrey that was on the cover of "TV Guide Magazine," and although the head was Oprah's, the body was referenced from a 1979 publicity shot of Ann-Margret. The illustration was rendered so tightly in color pencil by freelance artist Chris Notarile that most people thought it was a composite photograph.
In 1992 she co-starred with Robert Duvall and Christian Bale in the Disney musical,
Newsies
. In 1993, Ann-Margret starred in the hit comedy
Grumpy Old Men
reuniting with Matthau and Jack Lemmon. Her character returned for
Grumpier Old Men
(1995), the equally successful sequel which this time co-starred none other than Sophia Loren.
Ann-Margret published an autobiography in 1994 titled
Ann-Margret: My Story
, in which she publicly acknowledged her battle with and ongoing recovery from alcoholism. In 1995, she was chosen by
Empire
magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history; she ranked 10th.
She also filmed
Any Given Sunday
(1999) for director Oliver Stone, portraying the mother of football team owner Cameron Diaz. She filmed a cameo appearance for The Limey but her entire performance was cut from the movie.
Ann-Margret also starred in several TV movies, including
Queen: The Story of an American Family
(1993) and
Life of the Party
(1999), the latter of which she received nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
She made guest appearances on the television shows
Touched by an Angel
in 2000 and three episodes of
Third Watch
in 2003. In 2001, she made her first appearance in a stage musical, playing the character of brothel owner Mona Stangley in a new touring production of
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
. She played Jimmy Fallon's mother in the 2004 comedy
Taxi
, co-starring Queen Latifah. In 2001, Ann-Margret worked with Art Greenhaw on the album
God Is Love: The Gospel Sessions
. The critically acclaimed project resulted in her first Grammy Award nomination and first Dove Award nomination for Best Album of the Year in a Gospel category. They teamed up again in 2004 for the album
Ann-Margret's Christmas Carol Collection
. She performed material from the album at two auditorium church services at Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, and broadcast worldwide on the program
Hour of Power
.
In 2006, Ann-Margret had supporting roles in the box-office hits
The Break Up
with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn, and
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
with Tim Allen. She also starred in several independent films, such as
Memory
(2006) with Billy Zane and Dennis Hopper. In 2009, she appeared in the comedy
Old Dogs
with John Travolta and Robin Williams.
Ann-Margret guest-starred in an episode of
Law & Order: SVU
, "Bedtime," which first aired on March 31, 2010. She received her sixth Emmy nomination for her performance. She also appeared in the Lifetime series
Army Wives
, in the episode "Guns and Roses" (Season 4, Episode 5), which originally aired May 9, 2010. On August 29, 2010, she won an Emmy Award for Guest Performance by an Actress for her "SVU" performance. It was the first Emmy win of her career, and she received a standing ovation from the Emmy venue audience as she approached the stage to receive her award.
On October 14, 2010, Ann-Margret appeared on CBS'
CSI
.
Ann-Margret was raised Lutheran. She has been married to Roger Smith since May 8, 1967. He was an actor who later became her manager; Smith is now semi-retired due to myasthenia gravis.
She rode a 500cc Triumph T100C Tiger motorcycle in
The Swinger
(1966) and the same model fitted with a non-standard electric starter in her stage show. A keen motorcyclist, she was featured in Triumph Motorcycles' official advertisements in the '60s. She suffered three broken ribs and a fractured shoulder when she was thrown off a motorcycle she was driving in rural Minnesota in 2000.
In the 2005 CBS miniseries
Elvis
, she is portrayed by Rose McGowan, which depicted her affair with Elvis Presley (played by Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) during the filming of
Viva Las Vegas
. In the 1987 movie Full Metal Jacket Ann-Margret is depicted entertaining troops stationed in Vietnam.
Filmography
Movies
Pocketful of Miracles
(1961)
State Fair
(1962)
Bye Bye Birdie
(1963)
Viva Las Vegas
(1964)
Kitten with a Whip
(1964)
The Pleasure Seekers
(1964)
Bus Riley's Back in Town
(1965)
Once a Thief
(1965)
The Cincinnati Kid
(1965)
Made in Paris
(1966)
Stagecoach
(1966)
The Swinger
(1966)
Murderers' Row
(1966)
The Tiger and the Pussycat
(1967)
The Prophet
(1968)
Seven Men and One Brain
(1968)
Rebus
(1969)
R.P.M.
(1970)
C.C. and Company
(1970)
Carnal Knowledge
(1971)
The Outside Man
(1972)
The Train Robbers
(1973)
Tommy
(1975)
The Twist
(1976)
Joseph Andrews
(1977)
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
(1977)
The Cheap Detective
(1978)
Magic
(1978)
The Villain
(1979)
Middle Age Crazy
(1980)
The Return of the Soldier
(1982)
Lookin' to Get Out
(1982)
I Ought to Be in Pictures
(1982)
Twice in a Lifetime
(1985)
52 Pick-Up
(1986)
A Tiger's Tale
(1988)
A New Life
(1988)
Newsies
(1992)
Grumpy Old Men
(1993)
Grumpier Old Men
(1995)
The Limey
(Scenes deleted, 1999)
Any Given Sunday
(1999)
The Last Producer
(2000)
Interstate 60
(2002)
Taxi
(2004)
Mem-o-re
(2005)
Tales of the Rat Fink
(Voice, 2006)
The Break Up
(2006)
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
(2006)
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
(2008)
All's Faire in Love
(2009)
Old Dogs
(2009)
TV
The Jack Benny Program (1961)
The Flintstones: Ann-Margrock Presents
(1963)
Ann-Margret: Made in Paris
(Short subject, 1965)
The Ann-Margret Show
(1968)
Ann-Margret: From Hollywood with Love
(1969)
Here's Lucy
(1970)
Dames at Sea
(1971)
Ann-Margret: When You're Smiling
(1973)
Ann-Margret Olsson
(1975)
Ann-Margret Smith
(1975)
Ann-Margret: Rhinestone Cowgirl
(1977)
Ann-Margret: Hollywood Movie Girls
(1980)
Who Will Love My Children?
(1983)
A Streetcar Named Desire
(1984)
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
(1987)
Our Sons
(1991)
Queen: The Story of an American Family
(Miniseries, 1993)
Following Her Heart
(1994)
Scarlett
(Miniseries, 1994)
Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story
(1996)
Blue Rodeo
(1996)
Four Corners
(1998)
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
(1998)
Happy Face Murders
(1999)
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
(2000)
Touched by an Angel
(2000)
The 10th Kingdom
(Miniseries, 2000)
Popular
(2000)
Blonde
(Miniseries, 2001)
A Woman's a Helluva Thing
(2001)
A Place Called Home
(2004)
Third Watch
(2003)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(2010)
Army Wives
(2010)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
(2010)
Discography
Singles
"I Just Don't Understand" (1961) U.S #17
"It Do Me So Good" (1961) U.S #97
"What Am I Supposed To Do" (1962) U.S #85, #19 Adult Contemporary Chart
"Sleep In the Grass" (1969) U.S #113 (Bubbling Under Chart)
"Love Rush" (1979) U.S #8 (Club Play Chart)
"Midnight Message" (1980) U.S #12 (Club Play Chart)
"Everybody Needs Somebody Sometimes" (1981) U.S. #22 (Club Play Chart)
EPs
And Here She Is...Ann-Margret
(1961)
·         Side 1: "I Just Don't Understand"/"I Don't Hurt Anymore"
·         Side 2: "Teach Me Tonight"/"Kansas City"
More and More American Hits
(compilation) (1962)
·         Side 2: "What Am I Supposed To Do"
Albums
And Here She Is...Ann-Margret
(1961)
On the Way Up
(1962)
The Vivacious One
(1962)
Bachelor's Paradise
(1963)
Beauty and the Beard
(1964) (with Al Hirt) U.S. #83
David Merrick Presents Hits from His Broadway Hits
(1964) (with David Merrick) U.S #141
Songs from "The Swinger (And Other Swingin' Songs)
(1966)
The Cowboy and the Lady
(1969) (with Lee Hazlewood)
Ann-Margret
(1979)
God Is Love: The Gospel Sessions
(2001)
Ann-Margret's Christmas Carol Collection
(2004)
Love Rush
(reissue of
Ann-Margret
) (2007)
Everybody Needs Somebody Sometimes
(single, reissue) (2007)
All's Faire In Love
(2008)
Soundtracks
State Fair
(1962) U.S #12
Bye Bye Birdie
(1963) U.S #2
The Pleasure Seekers
(1965)
Tommy
(1975) U.S #2
Newsies
(1992) U.S #149
Theatre productions
Love Letters
, with Burt Reynolds
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
(2001, touring production)
Honors
Year
Award
Category
Result
For
1962
Grammy Award
Best New Artist
Nominated
1962
Golden Laurel
Top Female New Personality
Won
1962
Golden Globe
Most Promising Newcomer ? Female
Won
1963
Golden Laurel
Top Female Musical Performance
Won
State Fair
1963
Golden Laurel
Top Female Star
Nominated
1964
Golden Laurel
Top Female Comedy Performance
Won
Bye Bye Birdie
1964
Golden Laurel
Top Female Star
Nominated
1964
Golden Globe
Best Motion Picture Actress ? Musical/Comedy
Nominated
Bye Bye Birdie
1964
Photoplay Award
Most Popular Female Star
Won
1965
Golden Laurel
Musical Performance, Female
Won
Viva Las Vegas
1966
Golden Laurel
Musical Performance, Female
Won
Made in Paris
1967
Golden Laurel
Top Female Star
Nominated
1972
Academy Award
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated
Carnal Knowledge
1972
Golden Globe
Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role
Won
Carnal Knowledge
1975
Academy Award
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated
Tommy
1975
Golden Globe
Best Motion Picture Actress ? Musical/Comedy
Won
Tommy
1978
Golden Globe
Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated
Joseph Andrews
1979
Saturn Award
Best Actress
Nominated
Magic
1981
Genie Award
Best Performance by a Foreign Actress
Nominated
Middle Age Crazy
1983
Emmy
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special
Nominated
Who Will Love My Children?
1983
Golden Apple Award
Female Star of the Year
Won
1984
Emmy
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special
Nominated
A Streetcar Named Desire
1984
Golden Globe
Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV
Won
Who Will Love My Children?
1985
Golden Globe
Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV
Won
A Streetcar Named Desire
1987
Emmy
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Mini Series or a Special
Nominated
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
1987
Crystal Award
Women in Film Award
Won
1988
Golden Globe
Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV
Nominated
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
1993
Emmy
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Mini Series or a Special
Nominated
Queen: The Story of an American Family
1994
Golden Globe
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV
Nominated
Queen: The Story of an American Family
1999
Emmy
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
1999
Golden Globe
Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV
Nominated
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
1999
SAG Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries
Nominated
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
2001
Grammy Award
Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album
Nominated
God is Love: The Gospel Sessions
2002
GMA Dove Award
Best Country Album
Nominated
God is Love: The Gospel Sessions
2005
CineVegas International Film Festival
Centennial Award
Won
2010
Emmy
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Won
Law & Order: SVU
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