I have come across two interesting video clips on YouTube. The first features a short interview with Ms Savage about Detour from a documentary on the film’s director Edgar G. Ulmer. The second is the official trailer for My Winnipeg. Of interest also is Eddie Muller‘s book Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir which has a chapter on Ms Savage based on a mid-90s interview.
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Hi! Tony,
Wow!…both clips and the mentioning of The Czar of Film Noir, author Eddie Muller’s book “Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir” “tie(s)” in perfectly!…Speaking of, “tie(s)” in,” I do own a copy of this book,(but of course!) and maybe giving away a copy next month on my blog as, I countdown in the month of January along with Alexander Coleman, (From over there at Coleman Corner in Cinema) 31 days of Films that are considered Noir, in honor of author Eddie Muller’s NoirCity 7 knock! knock! …
…Btw, Happy New Year! Tony, to you and your Family!here’s wishes you the best in 09′
Tks,
darkcitydame aka dcd ;)
Princess Oops! said,”I meant to say here’s wishing(Not “wishes”) you the best in 09″…Tony, I will now “grab” your TCM schedule for the month of January 09 and leave!!… and will return on February 01, 2009 …When once again, I will “grab” your TCM schedule. :)
Tks,
dcd ;)
Princess Oops! said, You don’t have your January 09′ TCM schedule listed yet!…Oops!I am so sorry!
Tks,
dcd ;)
Thanks Dcd for the news of the noiratho. Sorry, I am running behind – the January TCM noir schedule will be up soon. Best wishes for 2009!
Terrific clips, Tony!
January will be one incredibly dark month at the Dame’s pad, as well as Coleman’s Corner.
The UK Sunday Telegraph has today printed a great obituary for Ann Savage.
This extract is very interesting:
“When Ann Savage’s husband, Burt D’Armand, died in 1969, he left her broke. She took odd jobs to finance flying lessons, and in 1979 became a licensed pilot and part-owner of a small tool company. Later she took a secretarial course, became a docket clerk receptionist and then a secretary at a law firm in Los Angeles.
In 1983 Ann Savage turned up unexpectedly at a screening of Detour as part of a film tribute to its director, Edgar Ulmer. At the end of the screening there was the usual audience discussion and Shirley Ulmer, his widow, announced: ‘We have no idea where Ann Savage is, or if indeed she is alive.’ Standing up, Ann Savage quickly responded: ‘I’m right here.’ “
That anecdote there where Ulmer’s widow announces that Ann Savage may not even be alive when she’s sitting right there is a classic!!! LOL!!!
Amazing that Ann was left broke, and further still that she flew planes!