Ann Savage, RIP

December 29th, 2008 at 08:12am Will Pfeifer

Actress Ann Savage died in her sleep on Christmas Day at the age of 87. Though she starred in more than 30 films in the 1940s and 1950s, she’d been unseen on screen for more than half a century until Canadian director Guy Maddin cast her (as his own mother!) in his 2008 film, MY WINNIPEG.

Among film fans, though, she’s best known for her role as maybe the hardest-boiled hard-boiled dame of all time in the 1945 no-budget noir classic, DETOUR. Here’s a sample of her performance…

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