'Detour' actress Ann Savage dies

December 28, 2008 Savage died in her sleep at a nursing home on Christmas Day from complications following a series of strokes, her manager, Kent Adamson, said Sunday. Though her Hollywood career generally had been over since the mid-1950s, Savage had a resurgence in the past year with a key role in Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin's "My Winnipeg." Starting with her 1943 debut in the crime story "One Dangerous Night," Savage made more than 30 films through the 1950s, including Westerns ("Saddles and Sagebrush," "Satan's Cradle"), musicals ("Dancing in Manhattan," "Ever Since Venus") and wartime tales ("Passport to Suez," "Two-Man Submarine").

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