Word: margret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like watching Minnie Mouse play Ophelia-brilliantly. Nobody could believe that Ann-Margret, the Swedish meatball, the female Troy Donahue, the 30-year-old high school cheerleader from Wilmette, Ill., was actually acting. But in Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge (TIME, July 5), playing the billowy milkbed the hero frolics on, she opposed Jack Nicholson's grim portrait of a swordless swordsman with a rich and touching study of what happens to a woman when her man won't let her be one. Her work deserved and got the sort of reviews that could win a girl...
Forever in show business usually lasts till the next good offer, but success and disillusion do seem to have struck Ann-Margret simultaneously. Her story, which she told like a woman who had just discovered pain and was fascinated by it, is a version of the old standard about the small-town girl who paid too high a price to reach the big time. When Ann-Margret Olsson was a year old, her electrician father left his family in a tiny Swedish village and sailed for the U.S. For the next seven years, until his wife reluctantly agreed to follow...
...stars of R.P.M. are Anthony Quinn, Ann-Margret and Gary Lockwood, which says a good deal right there. Quinn plays an aging sociologist known as Paco, a campus liberal who charms the kids and flusters the board of trustees by riding around on a motor scooter and shacking up with Grad Student Ann-Margret. When radical students, led by Lockwood, take over one of the administration buildings, they demand a new college president. 'Their first choice is Che Guevara," reports the dean to the boggled trustees. "Oh they know he's dead," he adds. "Their second choice...
Anthony Quinn, as usual, yells and mugs a lot. Gary Lockwood's hair is always neatly combed, and Ann-Margret has nice thighs. The script was written by Erich Segal, whose previous credits (The Games and the bestselling novel Love Story) make him the perfect scenarist for Stanley Kramer, one of Hollywood's most fatuous film makers...
...first movie starring role, he gets to play a nude scene with Ann-Margret-written by her husband Roger Smith. And Joe Namath seems a bit nervous about his part in a motorcycle epic called C.C. Ryder & Company. On a TV show Broadway Joe asked Smith: "Doesn't the thought of having me do a nude scene with your wife bother you?" "Well, yes," allowed Smith. "On those days, I leave...