Word: margret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through Sioux territory is dull going. Mostly, the air of mounting crisis is indicated by having the actors glare at one another. As the fugitive Ringo Kid, Alex Cord can barely squeak by in Wayne's roomy old boots. Cord looks bored, a reasonably sensible reaction to Ann-Margret's pastel flouncing in the painted-lady role defined for keeps by Claire Trevor. In case they don't know what they have missed, the cast ought to sit home some night and catch the real thing on the late show...
...Artists estimates that 40% of its members got their start on the Amateur Hour. Some of the richest of them flunked their first test. One night 81 years ago, the audience awarded first prize to a South American who played the laurel leaf, while voting down another contestant, Ann-Margret. And in 1953, a swivel-hipped lad named Elvis Presley didn't get past the first audition...
...Foundation of Modern Art, he arranged to have the U.S. premiere of the film souffle, Made in Paris, held right after dinner in the New York Hilton's Grand Ballroom. Over their coffee and tea, Salvador Dali and the rest of his friends settled back to watch Ann-Margret tumble in love with Louis Jourdan in the film, which was not such a ball after...
Made In Paris casts Ann-Margret as a pushy little pure girl exploring what she calls her "first big chance" abroad. Playing a dress buyer on a junket, Ann-Margret adapts to comedy by snickering through her lines, but her candy-box wardrobe gets most of the laughs. Sympathetic Dress Designer Louis Jourdan says: "Wild Paris sex is one big cliche. You can have it if you want it-there are specialists who cater to such tastes." Ann-Margret finally settles for the tame American sex offered by Chad Everett, who has Paul Newman's looks, Clark Gable...
...gambles on a blonde (Tuesday Weld) and on the integrity of his dealer pal, Karl Maiden. Pressure comes from a conventionally vicious Southern gentleman (Rip Torn), whose pleasures include a Negro mistress, a pistol range adjacent to his parlor, and fixed card games. As Maiden's wife, Ann-Margret spells trouble of another kind, though her naive impersonation of a wicked, wicked woman recalls the era when the femme fatale wore breastplates lashed together with spider web. By the time all the bets are in, Cincinnati Kid appears to hold a losing hand...