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Ann-Margret (born April 28, 1941) is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
-born American actress, singer and dancer. She has won the Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in film and television program....
five times, and has been nominated for the Academy Award, Emmy Award

Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
and Grammy.

Margret was born Ann-Margret Olsson in Valsjöbyn

Jämtland

, or 'Jamtland' , is a historical Provinces of Sweden or landskap in the center of Sweden in northern Europe. It borders to H?rjedalen and Medelpad in the south, ?ngermanland in the east, Lapland, Sweden in the north and Tr?ndelag and Norway in the west....
, Jämtlands Iän

Jämtland

Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
Aronsson) and Gustav Olsson, a native of Örnsköldsvik

Örnsköldsvik

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Ann-Margret (born April 28, 1941) is a Swedish

Sweden

Golden Globe Award

Emmy Award

Biography

Early life

Ann-Margret was born Ann-Margret Olsson in Valsjöbyn

Jämtland

Married and maiden names

Örnsköldsvik

?rnsk?ldsvik is a town in ?ngermanland, Sweden and is the seat of ?rnsk?ldsvik Municipality, V?sternorrland County. Its natural harbour and archipelago is in the Gulf of Bothnia and the northern boundaries of the High Coast area of outstanding natural beauty....
. She was born in a small town "of lumberjacks and farmers high up near the Arctic Circle". Her father worked in the United States during his youth and immigrated back in 1942, working with the Johnson Electrical Company, while his wife and daughter stayed behind.

Ann-Margret and her mother moved to the United States in November 1946, and her father took her to Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city....
on the day they arrived. They settled just outside of Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
in Wilmette, Illinois

Wilmette, Illinois

Wilmette is a village in New Trier Township, Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, Illinois, Illinois, United States. It is located north of Chicago's downtown district and has a population of 27,651....
. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1949. She took her first dance lessons at the Marjorie Young School of Dance, and showed natural ability from the start, easily mimicking all the steps. Her parents were supportive and her mother handmade all her costumes. Ann-Margret's mother worked as a funeral parlour receptionist after her husband suffered a severe injury on his job. While a teenager, Ann-Margret appeared on the Morris B. Sachs Amateur Hour, Don McNeill's Breakfast Club and Ted Mack's Amateur Hour.

Through high school, she continued to star in theatricals and she attended Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a non-sectarian private university research university located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States....
, where she was a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta

Kappa Alpha Theta

Kappa Alpha Theta is an international women's fraternities and sororities founded on January 27, 1870 at DePauw University. Kappa Alpha Theta was the first Greek-letter women's fraternity....
but did not graduate. As part of a group known as the "Suttletones," they performed at the Mist, a Chicago nightclub, and went to Las Vegas for a promised club date which fell through after they arrived. They plugged ahead to Los Angeles and, through agent Georgia Lund, secured club dates in Newport Beach and Reno

Reno

Reno may refer to:...
, where Ann-Margret had a chance encounter with Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model, and a sex symbol.After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946....
, who was on location for The Misfits

The Misfits (film)

The Misfits is a 1961 United States drama film, written by Arthur Miller, directed by John Huston, and starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, and Eli Wallach....
. Monroe noticed the striking girl in a crowd of onlookers, then chatted privately with her, offering her encouragement.

The group finally arrived at The Dunes

Dunes (hotel and casino)

The Dunes Hotel was a Paradise, Nevada, hotel and casino that operated from May 23, 1955 to January 26, 1993, and was the tenth resort to open on the Las Vegas Strip....
in Las Vegas

Las Vegas Strip

The Las Vegas Strip is an approximately 4 mile stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada, Nevada, United States. A small portion of The Strip lies in Las Vegas, Nevada, but most of it is in the unincorporated area areas of Paradise, Nevada and Winchester, Nevada....
, which also headlined Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
and Al Hirt

Al Hirt

Alois Maxwell Hirt was an United States trumpeter and bandleader.Hirt was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of a police officer, and was known as "Al" or "Jumbo." At the age of six, he was given his first trumpet, which had been purchased at a local pawnshop....
at that time. George Burns

George Burns

George Burns was an United States comedy, actor, and comedy writer.His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen....
heard of her performance and she auditioned for his annual holiday show, in which she and Burns did a soft-shoe routine. Variety
Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly entertainment trade newspaper founded in New York in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Hollywood, was founded by Silverman in 1933....
proclaimed, "George Burns has a gold mine in Ann-Margret...she has a definite style of her own, which can easily guide her to star status".She has been married to Roger Smith

Roger Smith (actor)

Recording career

Ann-Margret started recording for RCA

RCA

RCA Corporation, founded as Radio Corporation of America, was an electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. Today, the RCA is owned by the France conglomerate Thomson SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Thomson....
in 1961 but her recording career was not as successful as her concurrent movie career. Her first RCA recording was "Lost Love" from her debut album And Here She Is: Ann-Margret, produced in Nashville with Chet Atkins

Chet Atkins

Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins was an influential American guitarist and record producer.His picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers both within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally....
on guitar, the Jordanaires (Elvis Presley's backup singers), and the Anita Kerr Singers, with liner notes by mentor George Burns. She had a sexy throaty singing voice and RCA attempted to capitalize on the 'female Elvis' comparison by having her record a version of "Heartbreak Hotel

Heartbreak Hotel

"Heartbreak Hotel" is a rock and roll song performed by Elvis Presley, with Bill Black , Scotty Moore , D.J. Fontana , Floyd Cramer and Elvis on rhythm guitar as the main supporting musicians....
" and other songs stylistically similar to Presley's. She scored the minor hit "I Just Don't Understand" (from her debut album) which entered the Billboard Top 40 in the third week of August 1961 and stayed six weeks, peaking at 17. The song was later covered in live performances by The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
, who never officially recorded any version of the song. Her only charting album was The Beauty and the Beard (1964) on which she was accompanied by trumpeter Al Hirt

Al Hirt

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
presentation in 1962, singing the Oscar-nominated song "Bachelor in Paradise", which caused a sensation and brought her offers for television and live concerts. Her contract with RCA

RCA

Film career

1960s

In 1961, at nineteen, she filmed a screen test at 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation , also known as 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, or simply Fox, is one of the six Worldwide major film studios....
and was signed to a seven-year contract. Ann-Margret made her film début in a loan out to United Artists

United Artists

United Artists Entertainment LLC is an United States film studio. The current United Artists was formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company....
in Pocketful of Miracles
Pocketful of Miracles

Pocketful of Miracles is a 1961 in film comedy film. The screenplay was based on a story by Damon Runyon called "Madame La Gimp" and an earlier screenplay by Frank Capra and Robert Riskin for Capra's Lady for a Day ....
, with Bette Davis

Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
. It was a remake of the 1933 movie Lady for a Day
Lady for a Day

Lady for a Day is a 1933 in film film which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Robert Riskin, based on the Damon Runyon story Madame la Gimp....
. Both versions were directed by Frank Capra

Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
.

Then came a 1962 remake of Rodgers and Hammerstein

Rodgers and Hammerstein

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were a well-known United States songwriter duo, usually referred to as Rodgers and Hammerstein....
's musical State Fair
State Fair (1962 film)

State Fair is a 1962 in film directed by Jos? Ferrer. The film is a remake of the State Fair .It was considered to be a financially and critically unsuccessful film....
playing the "bad girl" role of Emily opposite Pat Boone

Pat Boone

Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
. She had tested for the part of Margy, the "good girl," but she seemed too seductive to the studio bosses who decided on the switch. The two roles mimicked her real-life personality — shy and reserved off stage but wildly exuberant and sensuous on stage. As she summed up in her autobiography, she would easily transform herself from "Little Miss Lollipop to Sexpot-Banshee" once she stepped on stage and the music began.

Her next starring role, as the all-American teenager Kim from Sweet Apple, Ohio, in Bye Bye Birdie
Bye Bye Birdie (film)

The stage musical Bye Bye Birdie was first adapted to film in 1963 in film. The screenplay was written by Michael Stewart and Irving Brecher, with music by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams....
(1963) made her a major star. The premiere at Radio City Music Hall, 16 years after her first visit to the famed theater, was a smash hit--the highest first-week grossing film to date at that theater. Life magazine put her on the cover for the second time and announced that the "torrid dancing almost replaces the central heating in the theater". She was asked to sing "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" at President John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1961 until John F....
's private birthday party at the Waldorf-Astoria, one year after Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
on the MGM soundstage when the two filmed Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas

Viva Las Vegas is an United States musical film motion picture co-starring United States singers Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret. The movie is regarded by fans as one of Presley's best and is noted for the on-screen chemistry between Presley and Ann-Margret....
(1964). They began a one-year affair that received considerable attention from the gossip columnists. The reports led to a showdown with Priscilla Presley

Priscilla Presley

Priscilla Beaulieu Presley is an United States actress and businesswoman. She is the ex-wife of singer and actor Elvis Presley, and the mother of singer/songwriter Lisa Marie Presley....
, described by Priscilla in her 1985 book, Elvis and Me
Elvis and Me

Elvis and Me is a 1985 biography written by Priscilla Presley . In the book, Priscilla talks about meeting Elvis, their marriage, and the factors that led up to the couple's divorce....
, including a discussion of Ann-Margret's attempt to "cut her off at the pass" with a press announcement that she and Elvis were engaged to be married. Ann-Margret states that although they discussed marriage, she and Presley were never engaged and they both knew that the affair would run its course. Comparisons of Ann-Margret as the "female Elvis" were not confined to the publicity agencies. The two of them were truly similar in many ways--both were quiet and shy offstage and electric onstage, treasured their families and believed strongly in God, loved speed and motorcycles, could be defiant of danger, and could be self-destructive at times. After the affair ended, Presley remained a very close friend and continued to send Ann-Margret flowers at the opening of each of her stage appearances.

In 1963, Ann-Margret guest-starred in a popular episode of the animated TV series

Animated cartoon

An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn film for the Movie theater, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot . This is distinct from the term "animation" or "animated film", as not all follow the definition....
The Flintstones
The Flintstones

The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on American Broadcasting Company.Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions , The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend....
, voicing Ann-Margrock, an animated version of herself. She sang the (literally) rock-ing song, "Ain't Gonna Be A Fool." Decades later, she recorded the theme song, a modified version of the Viva Las Vegas theme, to the live-action film The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas is a 2000 feature film based on Hanna-Barbera's animated television classic, The Flintstones, produced by Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures....
in character as Ann-Margrock.

While working on the film Once a Thief (1965), she met Roger Smith

Roger Smith (actor)

Roger LaVerne Smith is an United States television and film actor and scriptwriter. He is best known for his starring role in the television detective series 77 Sunset Strip and for his long marriage to actress Ann-Margret....
, who after his successful run on the private-eye television series 77 Sunset Strip
77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip is an hour-length American television Private investigator#PIs in fiction series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith , and Edd Byrnes....
was performing a live club show at the Hungry i

Hungry i

The hungry i was a legendary San Francisco nightclub operated in the mid-1950s and early 1960s by Enrico Banducci at 599 Jackson Street in the North Beach, San Francisco, California district....
on a bill with Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby

William Henry "Bill" Cosby Jr. is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a vanguard role in the 1960s action show I Spy....
and Don Adams

Don Adams

Don Adams was an United States actor, comedian, game show panelist and occasional Film director, who in his five decades of television was best known for his role as Maxwell Smart in the TV situation comedy Get Smart , for which he also directed and wrote....
. That meeting began their courtship, which met with resistance from her parents.

Ann-Margret starred in The Cincinnati Kid
The Cincinnati Kid

The Cincinnati Kid is a 1965 in film. It tells the story of Eric "The Kid" Stoner, a young Great Depression-era poker player, as he seeks to establish his reputation as the best....
in 1965 opposite Steve McQueen. She also co-starred along with friend Dean Martin

Dean Martin

Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
in the spy spoof Murderers' Row
Murderers' Row (film)

Murderers' Row is the title of a 1966 United States comedy-spy-fi motion picture starring Dean Martin and very loosely based upon the Matt Helm spy novel Murderers' Row by Donald Hamilton, which was published in 1962....
(1966).

Her redhead hair color (she is a "natural brunette") was the idea of Sydney Guilaroff, a hairdresser who changed the hair color of other famous actresses such as Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball was an United States comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model , film industry, and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy....
.

She was offered the title role in Cat Ballou
Cat Ballou

Cat Ballou is a 1965 in film comedy-western film which tells the story of a woman who hires a famous gunman to protect her father's ranch, and later to avenge his murder, but finds that the man she hires is not what she expected....
(1965) which would go to Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
, but her manager turned it down without telling her. In March 1966, Ann-Margret and entertainers Chuck Day and Mickey Jones

Mickey Jones

Mickey Jones is an United States musician and actor. Jones' career as a drummer had him backing up such artists as Trini Lopez and Johnny Rivers....
teamed up for a USO

United Service Organizations

The United Service Organizations Inc. is a private, nonprofit organization that provides morale and recreational services to members of the Military of the United States worldwide....
tour to entertain U.S. servicemen in remote parts of Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
and other parts of Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India and north of Australia....
. She still has great affection for the veterans and refers to them as "my gentlemen." Ann-Margret, Day and Jones reunited in November 2005 for an encore of this tour for veterans and troops at Nellis Air Force Base

Nellis Air Force Base

Nellis Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Clark County, Nevada, Nevada. It is seven nautical miles northeast of the central business district of Las Vegas, Nevada....
, Nevada

Nevada

Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada....
.

During a lull in her film career in the late 1960s, she performed live in Las Vegas, with her husband Smith (whom she had married in 1967) taking over as her manager after that engagement. Elvis and his entourage came to see her during the show's five-week run and to celebrate backstage. She followed up with a television special on December 1, 1968 starring Bob Hope

Bob Hope

Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
, Jack Benny

Jack Benny

Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudeville, and actor for radio programming, television, and film.Widely recognized as one of the leading American entertainers of the 20th century, Benny was known for his comic timing and his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated "...
, Danny Thomas

Danny Thomas

Danny Thomas was an United States nightclub comedian and television and film actor, best known for starring in the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy....
and Carol Burnett

Carol Burnett

Carol Creighton Burnett is an United States actress, comedienne, singer, dancer and writer. Burnett started her career in New York. After becoming a hit on Broadway theatre, she debuted on television....
. Then she went back to Saigon as part of Hope's Christmas show. A second television special followed with Dean Martin and Lucille Ball. In 1970, she returned to films with R.P.M. and C.C. and Company (featuring her first nude scenes, although as with Carnal Knowledge
Carnal Knowledge (film)

Carnal Knowledge is a 1971 United States drama film. The film was Film director by Mike Nichols and screenwriter by Jules Feiffer....
in 1971, it is possible that a body double

Body double

A body double is a general term for someone who substitutes for the credit ed actor of a character in any recorded visual medium, whether videotape or film....
was at least partially used).

1970s and 1980s

In 1971, she starred in Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols is an United States television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. Nichols is one of the few people to have won List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards: an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award....
's Carnal Knowledge
Carnal knowledge

Carnal knowledge is an Archaism or legal euphemism for sexual intercourse....
, marking a significant change from her sex-kitten musical roles and garnering a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
.

On September 9, 1972, while performing at Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe is a large Fresh water lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains of the United States. It is located along the border between California and Nevada, west of Carson City, Nevada....
, Nevada

Nevada

Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada....
, she fell 22 feet from an elevated platform to the stage and suffered injuries including a broken left arm, cheekbone and jawbone. Smith flew a stolen plane from Burbank, California

Burbank, California

Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 100,316 at the United States Census, 2000.Burbank is located in the eastern region of the San Fernando Valley, north of Downtown Los Angeles, California....
to Lake Tahoe and back to get his wife to surgeons at UCLA

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, California, United States....
for treatment, which included meticulous facial reconstructive surgery

Plastic surgery

Plastic surgery is a medical :Category:Surgical specialties concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. While famous for aesthetic surgery, plastic surgery also includes a variety of fields such as craniofacial surgery, hand surgery, burn surgery, microsurgery, and reconstructive surgery....
that required wiring her mouth shut and putting her on a liquid diet. Unable to work for ten weeks, she ultimately returned to the stage almost back to normal.

Throughout the 1970s, Ann-Margret balanced her live musical performances with a string of dramatic film roles that played against her glamorous image. In 1973 she starred with John Wayne

John Wayne

John Wayne was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film actor. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon....
in The Train Robbers
The Train Robbers

The Train Robbers is a 1973 Western film starring John Wayne and Ann-Margret. The movie was written and directed by Burt Kennedy....
. Then came the musical Tommy
Tommy (film)

Tommy is a 1975 in film musical film, based on The Who 1969 in music rock opera album musical Tommy . It was directed by Ken Russell and featured a star-studded cast, including the band members themselves....
in 1975, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress

Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
. In addition, she has been nominated for ten Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in film and television program....
s and has won five times, including her Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
for Tommy. She also did a string of successful TV specials, starting with The Ann-Margret Show for NBC in 1968.

In 1978, she co-starred with Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, Order of the British Empire is a Welsh People film, theater and television actor. Considered by many to be one of film's greatest living actors, he is best known for his portrayal of cannibalism serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 in film blockbuster The Silence of the Lambs , its sequel, Hannibal ,...
in the horror/suspense thriller Magic
Magic (film)

Magic is a 1978 film starring Anthony Hopkins and Ann-Margret. It was written by William Goldman, who also wrote the Magic ....
.

In 1989, an illustration was done of Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Gail Winfrey is an United Statesn television presenter, Media proprietor and philanthropist. Her television syndication talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, has earned her multiple Emmy Awards and is the highest-rated talk show in the history of television....
that graced the cover of TV Guide
TV Guide

TV Guide is the name of a North American weekly magazine about Broadcast programming.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews....
, and although the head was Oprah's, the body was referenced from a 1979 publicity shot of Ann-Margret. The illustration was rendered so tightly in color pencil by freelance artist Chris Notarile that most people thought it was a composite photograph.

1990s and 2000s

In 1993, she starred in the comedy Grumpy Old Men
Grumpy Old Men

Grumpy Old Men refers to:* Grumpy Old Men , a 1993 comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau* Grumpy Old Men , a 2000s BBC Two television programme...
with Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau

Walter John Matthau was an United States award-winning actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with fellow Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon....
and Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon

'John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III' was an United States actor known principally for his comedic roles. He starred in over 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses , Irma La Douce, The Odd Couple , The Out-of-Towners , Glengarry Glen Ross , The China Syndrome and JFK ....
. Her character returned for Grumpier Old Men
Grumpier Old Men

Grumpier Old Men is a 1995 in film Warner Bros. romantic comedy film starring Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Ann-Margret, and Sophia Loren, with Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Katie Sagona, Ann Morgan Guilbert....
(1995), the sequel.

Ann-Margret published an autobiography

Autobiography

An autobiography is a biography written by its subject . The term was first used by the poet Robert Southey in 1809 in the English language Periodical publication Quarterly Review, but the form goes back to antiquity....
in 1994 titled Ann-Margret: My Story (ISBN 0-399-13891-9), in which she publicly acknowledged her recovery from alcoholism

Alcoholism

Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions to describe the detrimental effects of alcohol intake.In common and historic usage, alcoholism refers to any condition that results in the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages despite health problems and negative social consequences....
. In 1995, she was chosen by Empire
Empire (magazine)

Empire is a United Kingdom film magazine published monthly by Bauer Verlagsgruppe. From the first issue in July 1989, the magazine was edited by Barry McIlheney and published by Emap....
magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history; she ranked 10th.

In 2001, she made her first appearance in a stage musical, playing the character of brothel

Brothel

A brothel, also known as a bordello, cathouse or whorehouse, is an establishment specifically dedicated to prostitution, providing the prostitutes a place to meet and to have sex with clients....
owner Mona Stangley in a new touring production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a Musical theatre with a book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson and music and lyrics by Carol Hall....
.

She also filmed Any Given Sunday
Any Given Sunday

Any Given Sunday is a 1999 in film directed by Oliver Stone featuring an ensemble cast, consisting of Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, James Woods, LL Cool J, Matthew Modine, John C....
(1999) for director Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone is an United Statesn film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially....
, portraying the mother of football team owner Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Michelle Diaz is an United States actress. In August 2008, Forbes listed Diaz as the highest paid actress in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
. In Memory
Memory

In psychology, memory is an organism's mental ability to store, retain and recall information. Traditional studies of memory began in the fields of philosophy, including techniques of mnemonic....
(2006), she starred with Billy Zane

Billy Zane

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and Dennis Hopper

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. Also in 2006, Ann-Margret had a small role in The Break Up starring Jennifer Aniston

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and Vince Vaughn

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.

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.

Filmography

Pocketful of Miracles
Pocketful of Miracles

Pocketful of Miracles is a 1961 in film comedy film. The screenplay was based on a story by Damon Runyon called "Madame La Gimp" and an earlier screenplay by Frank Capra and Robert Riskin for Capra's Lady for a Day ....
(1961)
State Fair
State Fair (1962 film)

State Fair is a 1962 in film directed by Jos? Ferrer. The film is a remake of the State Fair .It was considered to be a financially and critically unsuccessful film....
(1962)
Bye Bye Birdie
Bye Bye Birdie

Bye Bye Birdie is a stage musical theater with a book by Michael Stewart , lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse.Originally titled Let's Go Steady, the satire on United States society is set in 1958....
(1963)
Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas

Viva Las Vegas is an United States musical film motion picture co-starring United States singers Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret. The movie is regarded by fans as one of Presley's best and is noted for the on-screen chemistry between Presley and Ann-Margret....
(1964)
Kitten with a Whip
Kitten with a Whip

Kitten with a Whip is a 1959 Pulp fiction novel by "Wade Miller ", a pseudonym used by the writing team Robert Wade and William Miller . The novel was published by Fawcett Publications's Gold Medal imprint....
(1964)
The Pleasure Seekers
The Pleasure Seekers

The Pleasure Seekers is a 1964 in film 20th Century Fox film starring Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, and Carol Lynley, with Gardner McKay, Pamela Tiffin, Brian Keith, and Gene Tierney....
(1964)
Ann-Margret: Made in Paris (Short subject, 1965)
Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965)
Once a Thief
Once a Thief

Once a Thief may refer to:* Once a Thief * Once a Thief , a Ralph Nelson film starring Alain Delon, Ann-Margret and Jack Palance* Once a Thief , the John Woo film starring Chow Yun-Fat...
(1965)
The Cincinnati Kid
The Cincinnati Kid

The Cincinnati Kid is a 1965 in film. It tells the story of Eric "The Kid" Stoner, a young Great Depression-era poker player, as he seeks to establish his reputation as the best....
(1965)
Made in Paris
Made in Paris

Made in Paris is a 1966 United States romantic comedy film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Louis Jourdan, Ann-Margaret, and Richard Crenna....
(1966)
Stagecoach
Stagecoach (1966 film)

Stagecoach is a 1966 remake of the 1939 John Ford western Stagecoach . Slim Pickens replaced Andy Devine as the driver, football player Alex Cord filled in for John Wayne as the Ringo Kid, Ann-Margret succeeded Claire Trevor as the prostitute Dallas, and Bing Crosby played Thomas Mitchell 's Academy Award-winning part as the drunken...
(1966)
The Swinger (1966)
Murderers' Row
Murderers' Row (film)

Murderers' Row is the title of a 1966 United States comedy-spy-fi motion picture starring Dean Martin and very loosely based upon the Matt Helm spy novel Murderers' Row by Donald Hamilton, which was published in 1962....
(1966)
The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
The Prophet (1968)
Seven Men and One Brain (1968)
Rebus
Rebus (film)

Rebus is a 1969 crime film directed by Nino Zanchin and starring Laurence Harvey and Ann-Margaret. An international co-production, it was largely filmed in Venezuela, the UK and Lebanon....
(1969)
R.P.M. (1970)
C.C. and Company (1970)
Carnal Knowledge
Carnal knowledge

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(1971)
The Outside Man
The Outside Man

The Outside Man is a 1972 in film France thriller film directed by Jacques Deray and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, and Angie Dickinson....
(1972)
The Train Robbers
The Train Robbers

The Train Robbers is a 1973 Western film starring John Wayne and Ann-Margret. The movie was written and directed by Burt Kennedy....
(1973)
Tommy
Tommy (film)

Tommy is a 1975 in film musical film, based on The Who 1969 in music rock opera album musical Tommy . It was directed by Ken Russell and featured a star-studded cast, including the band members themselves....
(1975)
The Twist (1976)
Joseph Andrews
Joseph Andrews

Joseph Andrews, or The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, was the first published full-length novel of the England author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the first novels in the English language....
(1977)
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
The Last Remake of Beau Geste

The Last Remake of Beau Geste is a 1977 in film American historical film comedy film. It starred and was also directed and co-written by Marty Feldman....
(1977)
The Cheap Detective
The Cheap Detective

The Cheap Detective is a 1978 in film Columbia Pictures spoof comedy film film, written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore as a follow-up to their successful Murder by Death, ....
(1978)
Magic
Magic (film)

Magic is a 1978 film starring Anthony Hopkins and Ann-Margret. It was written by William Goldman, who also wrote the Magic ....
(1978)
The Villain (1979)
Middle Age Crazy (1980)
The Return of the Soldier
The Return of the Soldier (film)

The Return of the Soldier is a 1982 in film UK film starring Alan Bates as Baldry and co-starring Julie Christie, Ian Holm, Glenda Jackson, and Ann-Margret about a shell-shocked officer's return from the First World War....
(1982)
Lookin' to Get Out
Lookin' to Get Out

Lookin? to Get Out is a 1982 in film film directed by Hal Ashby and written by Al Schwartz and Jon Voight, who also stars in the movie with daughter Angelina Jolie....
(1982)
I Ought to Be in Pictures
I Ought to Be in Pictures

I Ought to Be in Pictures is a play by Neil Simon.The three-character comedy-drama focuses on Herb, a struggling, Writer's block screenwriter who abandoned his family sixteen years earlier....
(1982)
Twice in a Lifetime
Twice in a Lifetime (1985 film)

Twice in a Lifetime is a 1985 in film starring Gene Hackman and directed by Bud Yorkin. The plot involves a steelworker and married man going through a mid-life crisis when he finds himself attracted to another woman, played by Ann-Margret....
(1985)
52 Pick-Up
52 Pick-Up

Released in 1986, 52 Pick-Up is an action/thriller that details blackmail and murder in the wake of an affair. The movie stars Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret, was directed by John Frankenheimer, and is based on Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name....
(1986)
A Tiger's Tale (1988)
A New Life
A New Life

A New Life is a Chinese drama in Singapore which aired in 2005. The show starred Christopher Lee , Yvonne Lim, Darren Lim, Ann Kok, Andrew Seow, Carole Lin, May Phua and Jin Yinji....
(1988)
Newsies
Newsies

Newsies is a 1992 in film Walt Disney Pictures live action film musical film starring Christian Bale, David Moscow, and Bill Pullman. Robert Duvall and Ann-Margret also appeared in supporting roles....
(1992)
Grumpy Old Men
Grumpy Old Men (film)

Grumpy Old Men is a 1993 in film Warner Bros. romantic comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, and Ann-Margret, with Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Katie Sagona, Ossie Davis, and Buck Henry....
(1993)
Grumpier Old Men
Grumpier Old Men

Grumpier Old Men is a 1995 in film Warner Bros. romantic comedy film starring Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Ann-Margret, and Sophia Loren, with Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Katie Sagona, Ann Morgan Guilbert....
(1995)
The Limey
The Limey

The Limey is an United States revenge neo-noir crime film, directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Lem Dobbs. The film features Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzm?n, Peter Fonda, among others....
(Scenes deleted, 1999)
Any Given Sunday
Any Given Sunday

Any Given Sunday is a 1999 in film directed by Oliver Stone featuring an ensemble cast, consisting of Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, James Woods, LL Cool J, Matthew Modine, John C....
(1999)
The Last Producer
The Last Producer

The Last Producer is a 2000 in film American drama film directed by and starring Burt Reynolds. It also featured Rod Steiger, Benjamin Bratt and Kim Chase....
(2000)
Interstate 60
Interstate 60

Interstate 60 is a 2002 in film comedy/drama film starring James Marsden, Gary Oldman, and Amy Smart, with Cameo appearance by Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Chris Cooper , and Kurt Russell....
(2002)
Taxi (2004)
Mem-o-re (2005)
Tales of the Rat Fink
Rat Fink

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(Voice, 2006)
The Break Up (2006)
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause is a 2006 in film American film, the sequel to The Santa Clause and The Santa Clause 2.Tim Allen again plays Scott Calvin , while Martin Short plays Jack Frost, a competing holiday character....
(2006)
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond is an upcoming 2008 film by director Jodie Markell. The film is based on Tennessee Williams's long-forgotten screenplay....
(2008)
All's Faire in Love
All's Faire in Love

All Faire in Love is a romantic comedy film shot in primarily at the Michigan Renaissance Festival, on the border between Groveland Township and Holly Township in northwestern Oakland County, Michigan....
(2009)

Television work

The Flintstones: Ann-Margrock Presents (Episode 89 Season 4 September 19, 1963)
The Ann-Margret Show (1968)
Ann-Margret: From Hollywood with Love (1969)
Dames at Sea
Dames at Sea

Dames at Sea is a musical theatre with book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller and music by Jim Wise.The musical is a parody of large, flashy 1930s Busby Berkeley-style movie musicals in which an understudy steps into a role on Broadway theatre and becomes a star....
(1971)
Ann-Margret: When You're Smiling (1973)
Ann-Margret Olsson (1975)
Ann-Margret Smith (1975)
Ann-Margret: Rhinestone Cowgirl (1977)
Ann-Margret: Hollywood Movie Girls (1980)
Who Will Love My Children?
Who Will Love My Children?

Who Will Love My Children? is a 1983 in television made for television biographical film based on the life of Lucile Fray. Lucile Fray was diagnosed with cancer in 1952 and wanted to find suitable homes for her ten children, since she felt her husband could not properly care for them....
(1983)
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire (1984 film)

A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1984 in film television film drama film directed by John Erman. Based on the A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, it stars Ann-Margret and Treat Williams....
(1984)
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles is a 1985 novel by Dominick Dunne based on the sensational William Woodward, Jr. of 1955. It was made into a television movie in 1987, directed by John Erman, and starring Genevieve Allenbury, Ann-Margaret, Elizabeth Ashley, Claudette Colbert and Stephen Collins....
(1987)
Our Sons (1991)
Queen: The Story of an American Family
Queen: The Story of an American Family

Queen: The Story of an American Family is a 1993 partly factual historical novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens . It brought back to the consciousness of many White Americans the plight of the children of the plantation; the offspring of black slave women and their white masters who were legally their slaves....
(Miniseries, 1993)
Following Her Heart (1994)
Scarlett (Miniseries, 1994)
Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story (1996)
Blue Rodeo (1996)
Four Corners (1998)
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story (1998)
Happy Face Murders (1999)
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder (2000)
Touched by an Angel
Touched by an Angel

Touched by an Angel is an United States drama television series that chronicles the missions of a group of angels sent by God. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson , it ran on CBS for nine seasons, from September 21, 1994 to April 27, 2003, and aired in many countries all around the world....
(1 episode, 2000)
The 10th Kingdom
The 10th Kingdom

The 10th Kingdom is an epic fantasy TV miniseries written by screenplay writer Simon Moore and released by Hallmark Entertainment. It depicts the adventures of a young woman and her father after they are transported from Manhattan, New York, through a magical mirror into an enchanting world of fairy tales and self-discovery....
(Miniseries, 2000)
Popular
Popular (TV series)

Popular is a adolescence comedy-drama on The WB Television Network in the United States, created by Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews, starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope as two teenage girls that reside on polar opposite sides of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but are forced to co-exist when their single parents randomly meet...
(1 episode, 2000)
Blonde (Miniseries, 2001)
A Woman's a Helluva Thing (2001)
A Place Called Home (2004)
Third Watch
Third Watch

Third Watch was an NBC television drama set in New York City that ran from September 23, 1999 to May 6, 2005....
(3 episodes, 2003)

Discography

Singles

"I Just Don't Understand" (1961) U.S #17
"It Do Me So Good" (1961) U.S #97
"What Am I Supposed To Do" (1962) U.S #85, #19 Adult Contemporary Chart
"Sleep In the Grass" (1969) U.S #113 (Bubbling Under Chart)
"Love Rush" (1979) U.S #8 (Club Play Chart)
"Midnight Message" (1980) U.S #12 (Club Play Chart)
"Everybody Needs Somebody Sometimes" (1981) U.S. #22 (Club Play Chart)

EPs

And Here She Is...Ann-Margret (1961)

Side 1: "I Just Don't Understand"/"I Don't Hurt Anymore"
Side 2: "Teach Me Tonight"/"Kansas City"

More and More American Hits (compilation) (1962)

Side 2: "What Am I Supposed To Do"

Albums

And Here She Is...Ann-Margret (1961)
On the Way Up (1962)
The Vivacious One (1962)
Bachelor's Paradise (1963)
Beauty and the Beard (1964) (with Al Hirt
Al Hirt

Alois Maxwell Hirt was an United States trumpeter and bandleader.Hirt was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of a police officer, and was known as "Al" or "Jumbo." At the age of six, he was given his first trumpet, which had been purchased at a local pawnshop....
) U.S. #83
David Merrick Presents Hits from His Broadway Hits (1964) (with David Merrick
David Merrick

David Merrick was a prolific Tony Award-winning United States theatrical producer.Born David Lee Margulois to Jewish parents in St. Louis, Missouri, Merrick graduated from Washington University, then studied law at the Jesuit-run Saint Louis University School of Law....
) U.S #141
Songs from "The Swinger (And Other Swingin' Songs) (1966)
The Cowboy and the Lady (1969) (with Lee Hazlewood
Lee Hazlewood

Lee Hazlewood was an United States country music and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late fifties and singer Nancy Sinatra in the sixties....
)
Ann-Margret' (1979)
God Is Love: The Gospel Sessions (2001)
Ann-Margret's Christmas Carol Collection (2004)
Love Rush (reissue of Ann-Margret) (2007)
Everybody Needs Somebody Sometimes (single, reissue) (2007)
All's Faire In Love" (2008)

Soundtracks

State Fair (1962) U.S #12
Bye Bye Birdie (1963) U.S #2
The Pleasure Seekers (1965)
Tommy (1975) U.S #2
Newsies (1992) U.S #149

Theatre productions

Love Letters
Love Letters (play)

Love Letters is a Pulitzer Prize for Drama nominated play by A. R. Gurney. The play centers on just two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III....
, with Burt Reynolds
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a Musical theatre with a book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson and music and lyrics by Carol Hall....
(2001, touring production)

Awards

Year	Group	Award	Won?	Film
1962	Grammy Awards	Best New Artist	No
	Golden Laurel	Top Female New Personality	Yes
	Golden Globe	Most Promising Newcomer-Female	Yes
1963	Golden Laurel	Top Female Musical Performance	Yes	State Fair State Fair (1962 film) *State Fair* is a 1962 in film directed by Jos? Ferrer. The film is a remake of the State Fair .It was considered to be a financially and critically unsuccessful film....
1963	Golden Laurel	Top Female Star	No
1963	Golden Laurel	Top Female Comedy Performance	Yes	Bye Bye Birdie Bye Bye Birdie *Bye Bye Birdie* is a stage musical theater with a book by Michael Stewart , lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse.Originally titled Let's Go Steady, the satire on United States society is set in 1958....
	Golden Laurel	Top Female Star	No
	Golden Globe	Best Motion Picture Actress- Musical/Comedy	No	Bye Bye Birdie
	Photoplay Awards	Most Popular Female Star	Yes
1965	Golden Laurel	Musical Performance, Female	Yes	Viva Las Vegas Viva Las Vegas *Viva Las Vegas* is an United States musical film motion picture co-starring United States singers Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret. The movie is regarded by fans as one of Presley's best and is noted for the on-screen chemistry between Presley and Ann-Margret....
1966	Golden Laurel	Musical Performance, Female	Yes	Made in Paris
1967	Golden Laurel	Top Female Star	No
1972	Academy Award Academy Awards The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	No	Carnal Knowledge Carnal knowledge Carnal knowledge is an Archaism or legal euphemism for sexual intercourse....
1972	Golden Globe Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in film and television program....	Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role	Yes
1975	Academy Award Academy Awards The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....	Best Actress in a Leading Role	No	Tommy Tommy (film) *Tommy* is a 1975 in film musical film, based on The Who 1969 in music rock opera album musical Tommy . It was directed by Ken Russell and featured a star-studded cast, including the band members themselves....
1975	Golden Globe Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in film and television program....	Best Motion Picture Actress- Musical/Comedy	Yes
1978	Golden Globe	Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role	No	Joseph Andrews Joseph Andrews *Joseph Andrews, or The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams*, was the first published full-length novel of the England author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the first novels in the English language....
1979	Saturn Award Saturn Award The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and Horror fiction in film, television, and home video....	Best Actress	No	Magic Magic (film) *Magic* is a 1978 film starring Anthony Hopkins and Ann-Margret. It was written by William Goldman, who also wrote the Magic ....
1981	Genie Award Genie Award Genie Awards are given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. The awards were originally named the Canadian Film Awards which ran from 1949 to 1979 but in 1980 were renamed The Genie Awards....	Best Performance by a Foreign Actress	No	Middle Age Crazy
1983	Emmy	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special	No	Who Will Love My Children?
1983	Golden Apple Award Golden Apple Award The Golden Apple Award is an American award presented to entertainers by the Hollywood Women's Press Club, usually in recognition not of performance but of behavior....	Female Star of the Year	Yes
1984	Emmy	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special	No	A Streetcar Named Desire
1984	Golden Globe	Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV	Yes	Who Will Love My Children?
1985	Golden Globe Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in film and television program....	Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV	Yes	A Streetcar Named Desire
1987	Emmy	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Mini Series or a Special	No	The Two Mrs. Grenvilles The Two Mrs. Grenvilles *The Two Mrs. Grenvilles* is a 1985 novel by Dominick Dunne based on the sensational William Woodward, Jr. of 1955. It was made into a television movie in 1987, directed by John Erman, and starring Genevieve Allenbury, Ann-Margaret, Elizabeth Ashley, Claudette Colbert and Stephen Collins....
1987	Crystal Award	Women in Film Award	Yes
1988	Golden Globe Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in film and television program....	Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV	No	The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
1993	Emmy	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Mini Series or a Special	No	Queen: The Story of an American Family Queen: The Story of an American Family *Queen: The Story of an American Family* is a 1993 partly factual historical novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens . It brought back to the consciousness of many White Americans the plight of the children of the plantation; the offspring of black slave women and their white masters who were legally their slaves....
1994	Golden Globe	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV	No	Queen: The Story of an American Family
1999	Emmy	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie	No	Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
	Golden Globe	Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV	No	Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
	SAG Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries	No	Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
2001	Grammy Awards	Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album (God is Love: The Gospel Sessions)	No
2002	GMA Dove Awards	Best Country Album (God is Love: The Gospel Sessions)	No
2005	CineVegas International Film Festival	Centennial Award	Yes

External links

* at Allmusic
at Snopes.com
, particularly with regard to the 2001 touring production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a Musical theatre with a book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson and music and lyrics by Carol Hall....