Annie Ross

Annie Ross

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.

  • Title: Annie Ross
  • Popularity: 3.559
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1930-07-26
  • Place of Birth: Mitcham, Surrey, England, UK
  • Homepage: http://home.earthlink.net/%7Etardo/annie.html
  • Also Known As: Annabella Logan, Annabelle Logan
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Annie Ross Movies

  • 1944
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    Musical Movieland

    Musical Movieland

    6 1944 HD

    A group of tourists is given a tour of a movie studio lot. They see the various permanent sets that are used for different types of movies, and they...

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  • 1992
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    The Player

    The Player

    7.195 1992 HD

    A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

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  • 1988
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    Witchery

    Witchery

    4.9 1988 HD

    A student and her photographer boyfriend visit an island off of Massachusetts to research a hotel supposedly haunted by a witch.

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  • 1979
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    Yanks

    Yanks

    6 1979 HD

    During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits...

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  • 1990
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    Pump Up the Volume

    Pump Up the Volume

    7.061 1990 HD

    Mark Hunter, a lonely high school student, uses his shortwave radio to moonlight as the popular pirate DJ "Hard Harry." When his show gets blamed for...

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  • 1983
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    Superman III

    Superman III

    5.495 1983 HD

    Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which...

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  • 1990
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    Basket Case 2

    Basket Case 2

    5.736 1990 HD

    Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks.

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  • 1992
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    Basket Case 3: The Progeny

    Basket Case 3: The Progeny

    5.164 1992 HD

    Duane recovers from his delusional breakdown to find his freakish basket-bound brother Belial will soon become a father. But not everything is joyous...

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  • 1994
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    Blue Sky

    Blue Sky

    6.079 1994 HD

    Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assigned to help conduct weapons testing in 1950s...

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  • 1972
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    Straight On Till Morning

    Straight On Till Morning

    5.758 1972 HD

    Brenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her life. However, little does Brenda know that Peter is a...

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  • 2007
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    Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer

    Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer

    7 2007 HD

    This documentary explores the life of jazz singer Anita O'Day. As a child, Anita had a tonsillectomy, during which her uvula was accidentally...

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  • 1965
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    Notes for a Film on Jazz

    Notes for a Film on Jazz

    7.2 1965 HD

    Documentary filmed during the 1965 International Jazz Festival in Bologna, featuring appearances by musicians such as Gato Barbieri, Don Cherry, and...

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  • 1969
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    One Pair of Eyes - No, But Seriously

    One Pair of Eyes - No, But Seriously

    1 1969 HD

    Marty Feldman, for many years a successful comedy writer before turning to performing, explores humour through the people who create it, comparing...

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  • 2012
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    No One But Me

    No One But Me

    1 2012 HD

    No One But Me is a 2012 documentary film about Scottish jazz musician Annie Ross.

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  • 1975
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    Alfie Darling

    Alfie Darling

    4.4 1975 HD

    Alfie meets his romantic match when the modern-day Casanova falls in love with a career woman. Alfie soon realises that Abby, a magazine editor, is...

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  • 1940
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    Cinderella's Feller

    Cinderella's Feller

    1 1940 HD

    The story of Cinderella with a children's cast.

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  • 1982
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    Funny Money

    Funny Money

    4 1982 HD

    Crime, drama. In Las Vegas, young Barry Nichols inadvertently steals a fortune from the Mob and is slashed to death by a limping hood. Later, his...

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  • 1976
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    Salon Kitty

    Salon Kitty

    5.598 1976 HD

    Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army...

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  • 1993
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    Short Cuts

    Short Cuts

    7.2 1993 HD

    Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a...

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  • 2013
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    Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas

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

    1 2013 HD

    The documentary tracks the diva's difficult progress as she emerges from the tough, testosterone-fuelled world of the big bands of the 30s and 40s,...

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  • 1937
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    Our Gang Follies of 1938

    Our Gang Follies of 1938

    6.1 1937 HD

    Alfalfa gives up being "King of the Crooners" to sing opera, but a nightmare of being under the thumb of an evil producer sends him back to his roots.

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  • 1987
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    Throw Momma from the Train

    Throw Momma from the Train

    6.2 1987 HD

    Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother....

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  • 1943
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    Presenting Lily Mars

    Presenting Lily Mars

    6.1 1943 HD

    Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

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  • 1973
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    The Wicker Man

    The Wicker Man

    7.3 1973 HD

    Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however,...

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  • 2020
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    Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes

    Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes

    7 2020 HD

    Told in Count Basie's own words, this biography sheds light on both the professional and the private life of the world-famous bandleader and pianist...

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  • 1974
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    The Beast Must Die

    The Beast Must Die

    5.329 1974 HD

    Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the...

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  • 1996
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    The Ring of Truth

    The Ring of Truth

    1 1996 HD

    Set in the Necropolis graveyard, Glasgow. A comic and magical tale about the meaning of life and a hunt for a missing diamond ring. An ex-B movie...

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  • 1976
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    The Ghosts of Motley Hall

    The Ghosts of Motley Hall

    6.8 1976 HD

    The Ghosts of Motley Hall is a British children's television series written by Richard Carpenter which was produced and directed by Quentin Lawrence...

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  • 2002
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    Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

    Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

    6.952 2002 HD

    Based on a true story, this family-friendly series follows the adventures of a young, hearing impaired woman who has a special gift and goes to work...

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  • 1962
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.3 1962 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1959
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    No Hiding Place

    No Hiding Place

    3.7 1959 HD

    No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16...

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  • 1956
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    The Steve Allen Show

    The Steve Allen Show

    5 1956 HD

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.632 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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