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July 08, 2008
Maddin on Savage in My Winnipeg
Savagery! Where'd Guy Maddin rent his mom? Pic and interview from The National Post: "One of Maddin's more bizarre fabrications is the inclusion of someone he identifies in the film as his mother. In fact, the woman is 87-year-old actress Ann Savage, who retired in 1955. "Ann Savage is without a doubt the fiercest femme fatale in the history of film noir," says Maddin, "the savage centre of the most famous Poverty Row film ever made, Detour (1945), and so she means a lot to me symbolically. She is my mother, she is Poverty Row filmmaking." Maddin recalls that when he started to write My Winnipeg, he told a friend in Los Angeles: "If only Ann Savage were alive to play my mother. And he said, ‘Ann Savage is alive, she was just at my wedding and I have her phone number.' "
Posted by Ray Pride at July 8, 2008 06:13 PM
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