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Ann Margret
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Born April 28, 1941, she came to the United States with her mother when she was five, settling in the Chicago area. As a young girl Ann-Margret was discovered by the legendary George Burns and since her film debut, playing Bette Davis' daughter in "A Pocketful of Miracles", "State Fair," "Bye Bye Birdie," "Viva Las Vegas" with Elvis Presley, "Stagecoach," and "The Cincinnati Kid." In the Seventies Ann-Margret as an actress won many Academy Award nominations for her work in "Carnal Knowledge", and "Tommy." Her live performances draw record crowds in the Orient, Las Vegas and Miami. Her body of work expands with more films, TV Specials and awards. The eighties begin with her winning her first Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year Award. She stared in her first of several critically acclaimed TV Dramas, and was nominated for three Best Actress Emmy's. In the nineties she performed live at the Radio City Music Hall. She filmed two classics: "Grumpy Old Men," and its sequel, "Grumpier Old Men" with Walter Mathau, Jack Lemmon and Sophia Loren. Ann-Margret serves as the National Chairperson for the Myasthenia Gravis Division of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and lives with her husband Roger Smith, and their dog Missy in Beverly Hills, California. |
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