FUNERALS/MEMORIALS

Ann Savage

 

Ann Savage

(February 19, 1921 – December 25, 2008)

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By Allan R. Ellenberger

 

The affirmation of life ceremony for film noir actress, Ann Savage, was held on Sunday in the chapel of Hollywood Forever Cemetery with interment  in the Beth Olam Mausoleum. Those who spoke included Eddie Muller, writer and founder of the Film Noir Foundation; Arianne Ulmer Cipes, former actress and daughter of director Edgar G. Ulmer [Detour (1945)], and Kent Adamson, filmmaker and Savage’s manager.

 

Memorial program

 

A recent photo (2005) of Ann Savage and writer, Eddie Muller,

who spoke at today’s memorial (Films in Review)

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Selected blessings and prayers from Christian, Jewish and secular writings were read. The ceremony concluded with the annointment of Savage’s urn with Chanel No. 5 — her favorite perfume. Following the service, a procession led guests to the Beth Olam Mausoleum niche where her cremains were placed with those of her husband, Bert D’Armand.

 

Processional to the niche in the Hall of Solomon

in the Beth Olam Mausoleum

 

 

Preparation to inter the cremains of Ann Savage

 

 

The urns of actress Ann Savage and her husband, Bert D’Armand

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