Ann-Margret, S/D

She turned 71 yesterday.

On George Burns, the legendary entertainer who gave Ann-Margret her first break as a singer and dancer in a Vegas show: When she auditioned for Burns, she said, she “wore the light blue lambswool sweater and the black stockings and little black one-inch shoes that I had worn all through the summer, because that’s all I had! And that’s the way Mr. Burns saw me. So on opening night, that’s what I wore. But then I searched all over the place for something that I thought would be really nice in Las Vegas, and it was more money than I had ever spent. It was an orangey-red velvet pantsuit, and pantsuits were just coming into style. And at dress rehearsal Mr. Burns saw this outfit, and he said [mimicking Burns' famous rasp], ‘Where’s the sweater and pants that you wore on the audition — the tight sweater and the tight pants?’ And I said, ‘Well, I thought that this was really nice and that you’d like it.’ And he said, ‘People don’t want to only hear your voice, they want to see where it’s coming from!’” She laughs. “I never forgot that one.”

http://life.time.com/culture/ann-margret-a-legend-looks-back/#1

ann-margret is the real deal.

Search: her appearance on "The Flintstones" and the underrated The Return of the Soldier.

I'm going to post about my big record haul today in the dollar-thread, but I got a still-sealed Ann-Margaret album from '63 for $2: Bachelor's Paradise.

http://www.vinyl45s.com/thumbnail.asp?file=http://thursdaysrecords.com/pic/annmargretbachlp.jpg&maxx=300&maxy=0

omg

she was a good Blanche DuBois on TV too

Opposite Treat Williams, wasn't it?

Even if she only acted in Viva Las Vegas and Carnal Knowledge she would be 100% all-time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXCiS2FpmIc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhFrSwSIgc4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBdx_aSfuKc

two-time Oscar nominee

Also search for this album:

http://criterionmusiccorp.com/wp-content/media/The-Cowboy-And-The-Lady.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPODKEBhGrY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChGxwRq3YcI

always always essential.

And, er, damn...

http://www.rippin-kitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/am_easy.jpg

Feiffer’s Carnal Knowledge is a festival of mixed emotions, inasmuch as you get to see her sitting in bed topless for about an hour, but you have to take her being miserable, depressed, and psychologically abused by Nicholson throughout

Totally want that Lee/Ann album up there

major dance moves in here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFEe4PWY9wE

she is so sexy in this flick (NSFW)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd9AyZvV3hM

Tights are not pants, Ann-Margret.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxTCHg0r9uY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysewAJUWw5Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBQ9FRRghuQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9xrcZKvUUg

She is the worst part of Newsies.
Than Ann-Margret & Lee albu8m is so good.

forgot that there's even more Pete Townsend mid-70s synth weirdness in the movie version

major dance moves in here

zomg tbh

watched all of that trailer buzza posted thinking it might be the source of the comments about the tights, no such luck but it looks like a pretty cool movie, roy scheider running n shooting, plus cop cars jump off ramps, it was a good era i think.

Bus Riley's Back in Town meanders a bit towards the end, but lots of interesting stuff along the way. Seems to have been totally forgotten--I'd have to look at them side by side, but I think I liked it better than Splendor in the Grass. The most interesting thing to me was Michael Parks in the lead. Couldn't place him at all--he basically did TV in the '70s, has had a bit of a comeback recently via Tarantino. There was one role I did know him from, but I didn't make the connection: he's casually scary as Jean Renault in Twin Peaks. His James Dean mannerisms notwithstanding, he's very good in Bus Riley--when the film began, I assumed he'd be a standard comic goofball, but he's instead slyly intelligent and funny the whole way. Ann-Margret's an eyeful as always, and I've now got Janet Margolin (in Take the Money and Run) on my desktop.

Something odd. The film came out in '65, and it manages to diegetically work in muzaky versions of both "Downtown" and "I Know a Place" only months after they were on the charts. I didn't think movies did that sort of thing then.

i have to see that, where did you find a copy?

i've heard it's one of the better movies from the worst year hollywood ever had

As I mentioned on another thread, I managed to hook up my VCR to the big-screen and I'm hauling out old tapes from downstairs. Had a sealed copy of Bus Riley that I probably bought for a dollar or two when VHSs were in their dying days. Looks like it's not on DVD going by Amazon (and the VHS has one of those silly prices).

i think it might be in the torrentsphere, I'll give it a try

The original Times review is online:

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B06E7D8153CE733A2575BC0A9629C946491D6CF

"Mr. Parks uncorks a set of James Dean mannerisms"--they're that blatant (didn't find the review until after I posted). Anyway, the reviewer (not Bosley Crowther) does the film justice. The director, Harvey Hart, is from Toronto; he made a weird horror film in the '70s called The Pyx.

i feel like james dean imitators were a whole major subcategory of aspiring actors in the 1960s. i imagine casting directors had lots of in-jokes about it.