Ann Savage | |
|---|---|
 Savage in Detour (1945) | |
| Born | Berniece Maxine Lyon[1] February 19, 1921 Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | December 25, 2008 (aged 87) Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Hollywood Forever Cemetery |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1943–2007 |
| Spouses | |
Ann Savage (born Berniece Maxine Lyon,[1] February 19, 1921 – December 25, 2008) was an American film and television actress. She is best remembered as the greedy cigarette-puffing femme fatale in the critically acclaimed film noir Detour (1945). She was featured in more than 20 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 from the 1950s to the 1970s. She made a number of live appearances at film festivals, especially for screenings of Detour.
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".[4]
- ^ a b c "California County Marriages, 1850-1952", license and certificate of marriage, Clark Bewley Tennyson to Berniece [sic] Maxine Lyon, July 23, 1938, Los Angeles, California; Bureau of Vital Statistics, California State Board of Health, Sacramento; digital image of original two-page (obverse/reverse) document, archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah. On this official record, Savage's birth name is clearly and consistently typed and handwritten "Berniece Maxine Lyon" a total of six times.
- ^ Muller, Eddie. Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir. New York, N.Y.:ReganBooks, 2001, pp. 158-159.
- ^ Muller, p. 165.
- ^ "Ann Savage" (Obituary) in The Daily Telegraph, January 2, 2009 Archived November 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine