Ann Savage has died at 87, of complications from several strokes. She earned a cult following in the 1940's after appearing as a femme fatale in several movies.
One of Ann Savage's best known roles is in the movie Detour. In fact, she apparently acquired a cult following from that movie, in which she played Vera, a female version of The Hitcher. She played a woman ruthlessly blackmailing a stranger
Her first role was in 1943's One Dangerous Night. She went on to make over 30 movies, though her career was largely over after the 1950's.
Ann Savage married three times, and her last husband and long-time manager, Bert D'Armand, passed away in 1969. Savage died on Christmas Day, according to her manager, Kent Adamson. Of her signature Detour role, he told AP:
"It's actually a showcase role. (Tom) Neal and (Ann) Savage really reversed the traditional male-female roles of the time. She's vicious and predatory. She's been called a harpy from hell, and in the film, too, she's very sexually aggressive, and he's very, very passive. It's very unusual for a '40s film to have a woman come on that strong."
There is a clip of Ann Savage in Detour attached to this story.
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