Ann Savage died.

A train on the cigarette, a challenging glance - the role of femme fatale Ann Savage made famous. Until last played the U.S. in the American mainstream and independent productions. It is now known, is it Christmas died.
  New York - In the summer of 2008 she was back at once: Ann Savage. Become famous as a lascivious femme fatale in Edgar G. Ulmer film noir classic "Detour" (1945), in which she played a reckless Erpresserin. More than 60 years later, she described the British "Guardian" as the Greta Garbo of our time.
The occasion: Savage comeback in the biographical film touch memory "My Winnipeg" by Guy Maddin. In the film of independent director, whose work sometimes in the experimental film of the early twentieth century, sometimes to remember David Lynch, Savage plays the mother of the filmmaker - and was by critics for their presence celebrated.
After her breakthrough with "Detour" Savage played in the forties and fifties in more than 30 films, but then withdrew from the screen largely back.
The German filmmaker Wim Wenders once said, Savage was with their performances were the 15 years ahead of time "was.
As the Los Angeles Times on Monday, having regard to their manager Kent Adamson reported that succumbed to Savage on the first Christmas in a nursing home in Hollywood, the effects of several strokes. She was 87 years old.