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Annie Ross
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Annie Ross
Homepage
http://home.earthlink.net/%7Etardo/annie.html
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1930-07-26,Mitcham, Surrey, England, UK
Gender
Female
Biography
Annabelle McCauley Allan Short (25 July 1930 – 21 July 2020), known professionally as Annie Ross, was a British-American singer and actress, best known as a member of the jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. Ross was born in Surrey, England, the daughter of Scottish vaudevillians John "Jack" Short and Mary Dalziel Short (née Allan). Her brother was Scottish entertainer and theatre producer and director Jimmy Logan. She first appeared on stage at age three. At the age of four, she travelled to New York by ship with her family; she later recalled that they "got the cheapest ticket, which was right in the bowels of the ship". Shortly after arriving in the city, she won a token contract with MGM through a children's radio contest run by Paul Whiteman. She subsequently moved with her aunt, Scottish-American singer and actress Ella Logan, to Los Angeles, and her mother, father and brother returned to Scotland. She did not see her parents again until fourteen years later. At the age of seven, she sang "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" in Our Gang Follies of 1938, and played Judy Garland's character's sister in Presenting Lily Mars (1943). Her adulthood film roles included Liza in the film Straight On till Morning (1972), Claire in Alfie Darling (1976), Diana Sharman in Funny Money (1983), Vera Webster in Superman III (1983), Mrs. Hazeltine in Throw Momma from the Train (1987), Rose Brooks in Witchery (1988), Loretta Cresswood in Pump Up the Volume (1990), Tess Trainer in Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), and Lydia in Blue Sky (1994). She also appeared as Granny Ruth in the horror films Basket Case 2 (1990) and Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1991). She also had a bit part in Robert Altman's The Player in 1992. Ross also starred in Scottish Television's comedy-drama Charles Endell Esquire (1979). She provided the speaking voice for Britt Ekland in The Wicker Man (1973), and Ingrid Thulin's singing voice in Salon Kitty (1976). On stage, she appeared in Cranks (1955; London and New York City), The Threepenny Opera (1972), The Seven Deadly Sins (1973) at the Royal Opera House, Kennedy's Children (1975) at Arts Theatre, London, Side by Side by Sondheim, and in the Joe Papp production of The Pirates of Penzance (1982). Ross died in New York City on 21 July 2020 from emphysema and heart disease, four days before her 90th birthday. Description above from the Wikipedia article Annie Ross, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Musical Movieland

6

Musical Movieland
1944-09-09

7.2

The Player
1992-04-03

5

Witchery
1988-12-01

6

Yanks
1979-09-01

Pump Up the Volume

7.067

Pump Up the Volume
1990-08-22

5.508

Superman III
1983-06-17

5.7

Basket Case 2
1990-03-02

Basket Case 3: The Progeny

5.127

Basket Case 3: The Progeny
1992-02-21

6.1

Blue Sky
1994-09-16

Straight On Till Morning

5.9

Straight On Till Morning
1972-07-09

Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer

7

Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
2007-04-30

Notes for a Film on Jazz

7.2

Notes for a Film on Jazz
1965-12-31

One Pair of Eyes - No, But Seriously

0

One Pair of Eyes - No, But Seriously
1969-06-07

0

No One But Me
2012-02-21

4.4

Alfie Darling
1975-07-17

Cinderella's Feller

0

Cinderella's Feller
1940-06-08

4

Funny Money
1982-01-08

5.6

Salon Kitty
1976-03-02

7.2

Short Cuts
1993-10-01

Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas

0

Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
2013-05-10

Our Gang Follies of 1938

6.1

Our Gang Follies of 1938
1937-12-18

Throw Momma from the Train

6.187

Throw Momma from the Train
1987-12-11

Presenting Lily Mars

6.1

Presenting Lily Mars
1943-04-29

7.347

The Wicker Man
1973-12-06

Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes

7

Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes
2020-09-13

The Beast Must Die

5.4

The Beast Must Die
1974-04-01

The Ring of Truth

0

The Ring of Truth
1996-11-06

Annie Ross: No One But Me

0

Annie Ross: No One But Me
2012-04-09

The Ghosts of Motley Hall

6.8

The Ghosts of Motley Hall
1976-04-28

Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

7.1

Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
2002-10-13

7.3

The Saint
1962-10-04

No Hiding Place

3.7

No Hiding Place
1959-09-16

The Steve Allen Show

5

The Steve Allen Show
1956-06-24

The Ed Sullivan Show

6.6

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20