Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1963)

knew how to follow direction and do exactly what I wanted. The only trouble she gave me was when it came time for her to kiss Dave Hedison a few times. She said it made her feel embarrassed in front of so many people. Well, I had a little talk with her. A few of the boys pretended not to look, to be busy with something else. And from there on, things were fine again.” At 7:30 that night the test was finished and Parrish walked over to Ann-Margret and said: “I wish I could let you know the answer now, Annie. But there are others who have to see the test, so we won’t know for a few days. Meanwhile, tell me, are you excited?” Ann-Margret yawned, uncontrollably. “Yes,” she said then, quickly. Parrish laughed. They shook hands. And Ann-Margret drove out to the airport where she caught a plane for Chicago and home — and a few days of waiting. Couldn't jump any more “I waited and waited and was on pins and needles,” Ann-Margret says. “I waited for about five days. Meanwhile I had gotten a telegram from Mr. Parrish saying he had just seen the test and that it was great — just as he thought it would be. Then, a few days after that, he phoned and said that as far as 20th Century-Fox was concerned, they wanted me, and now it was up to my manager to agree to terms. Then, about ten minutes later, there was another call and it was Bobby and he said I’d gotten the contract, they’d made the deal. And I just jumped up and down, up and down, until I couldn’t jump any more. I went off to Hollywood again about two weeks later. I made ‘State Fair’ — part in Hollywood, part in Texas. Then there was the wonderful break of my appearing on the Academy Award show, when I sang ‘Bachelor in Paradise,’ and from which there was so much good reaction. Meanwhile I had also made the picture ‘A Pocketful of Miracles,’ in which Miss Bette Davis starred. She was such a nice woman. She really helped me so much. Then I began to make records, too. ‘Lost Love’ was the name of my very first single. And I could just see all my Swedish aunts going into record shops and asking for ‘Lost Love’ by Ann-Margret. It’s so funny because they never buy rock’n’roll records. “And then oh so many other wonderful things happened. I learned, for instance, that I would soon play one of the female leads in ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ for Columbia Studios. And I meanwhile had gotten a very nice apartment. And, thank God, my father recovered from a slight heart attack he suddenly got one day in Wilmette and he was able to retire from his job and he and my mother were able to come out here to California and live with me. And ... I began to meet so many nice young men out here. And I began to go out, much as I did back home. And have such a wonderful, wonderful time. . . Ann-Margret became engaged to one of the nice young men for a short while. His name was Burt Sugarman, and he was young, and rich, and as good looking as any leading man. Ann-Margret, who’d gone out with many fellows before, had never before gone steady; had certainly never been in love before. But then along came Burt. And the feeling was there, finally — though not at first, most decidedly not at first. Recalls one of her girl friends: “I was in Hollywood visiting Ann-Margret at about this time. Burt had obviously seen Ann in a show and gotten her phone number. Anyway, he’d called her a few times for a date and always she’d said no thank you. And then one evening Burt called and Ann said, ‘I tell you, I have a good friend visiting me here. If you can fix her up with a nice date — then, yes, I’ll go out with you. On a double-date, that is.’ A little while later Burt phoned back and said he’d gotten me a date with Ty Hardin. And that we were all going to go dancing at the Beverly-Hilton Hotel, which was quite an exciting deal for Ann and me. It was a riot the way things happened after that. The boys came to pick us up and one thing led to another and we never did get to the Beverly-Hilton. Well, Ann and I got the giggles at one point and we pretended to be very miffed with our dates. And at about twelve o’clock we said we were very tired and we asked the boys if they’d please take us home. In our anxiety to get out of the car and get upstairs so we could continue to have a good laugh, Ann-Margret mistakenly pointed to the wrong apartment house as the place where she lived. So we got out of the car, said goodnight to the boys, went into the building — which was an exact duplicate of the one where AnnMargret lived — and we couldn’t for the life of us understand why her key wasn’t opening the door. Golly, we laughed so much that night our stomachs hurt. And about Ann and Burt — I’ll tell you this. She really wasn’t too impressed with him that first night they went out.” But, a day or two later, Burt phoned again. 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