Ann-Margret’s unpolished look, uninhibited excitement, and untamed vigor were a welcome change of pace in the 1960s.
The Swedish-born actress, now 81, wowed audiences with her charm, charisma, and dancing ability.
Although she and Elvis Presley both went through public marriages at the time, their love for one another remained strong.
“We were truly soul mates, shy on the outside but unbridled within,” Ann-Margret said in her memoirs. Actress Ann-Margret Olsson is now considered to be among the best of all time.
She was one of the most impressive on-stage performers of the golden era of Hollywood, and her fame will endure for decades. Today, though, we’re going to go a bit further into her intense feelings for Elvis Presley.
Ann-Margret has been notoriously secretive about what went down between the two superstars, although she did include some juicy information in her book, My Story.
We know that Elvis fell in love with Ann-Margret while shooting Viva Las Vegas in 1964, but we don’t know when they originally met.
Ann-Margret claims that she and the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll were soul mates, despite the factl.That Presley married Priscilla. Elvis’ future bride would also be severely affected by their magnetic attraction to one another.
The excitement shared by Ann-Margret and Elvis Presley during the filming of Viva Las Vegas was evident to everybody.
Although she had previously blown her three male co-stars off the screen, Elvis was able to match her fervor and energy.
According to Filmink, he was the finest acting partner she had ever had.Despite this, the attractive couple’s devotion for one another was undeniably real.
And continued even when the cameras weren’t rolling. They didn’t just meet on the silver screen and fall in love. They felt an intense and immediate pull toward one another.
In her own words, “we both felt a current, an electricity that went straight through us,” Ann-Margret described the sensation. To paraphrase, “It would become a force we couldn’t control.”
Ann-Margret claims that Elvis encouraged their wedding. On many of their outings together, you might find them in a car, high above the city, talking and staring at one another.
Since Elvis would sometimes want to be left completely alone with Ann-Margret, she knew he thought highly of her. Elvis’s confidence in her strengthened their bond with one another.
We were quiet on the exterior but wild on the inside; true soul mates. We were both reckless and ultimately detrimental to ourselves.
Ann-Margret states in her autobiography that despite their fame and success, she and her husband “remained very childish and emotionally insecure.”
However, things became complicated because of Elvis and Priscilla’s close relationship. A year before the Viva Las Vegas premiere.
Elvis had asked Priscilla, then 17, to move in with him in Memphis. However, she was absent at the time when Ann-Margret and Elvis Presley were shooting in Hollywood.
Priscilla knew Elvis was cheating on her with Ann-Margret, but she didn’t see it as a danger as she did with the other ladies he had a thing on. Elvis denied it all, but Priscilla knew his true intentions.
Priscilla was first nervous about marrying the stunning blonde, but she soon realized that the charming and outgoing swede was too similar to Elvis.
The two were “mirror images,” which wasn’t ideal considering Elvis’s values. His views on marriage were more traditional and traditionalist. Priscilla Presley was a better fit than Ann-Margret.
Elvis and Ann-Margret continued their love letter exchange after Viva Las Vegas, but he finally recognized he had to end things with her.
Based on Elvis’s promise, we realized our relationship had to stop,” Ann-Margret writes in My tale. She claims it was a “confusing situation” as their relationship fizzled.
Glamour and Classic Hollywood:- She said that she recognized that “other factors in Elvis’s life forced him apart from me.”
After Elvis’s marriage to Priscilla, their love connection ended, but they remained friends. When she would play in Las Vegas, “The King” would bring her guitar-shaped flower arrangements.
Ann-Margret was a close friend of Elvis’, and when she didn’t get any flowers after a performance in 1977, she realized.
The King had passed away. Only Ann-Margret, one of Elvis’s few female co-stars, was present for his burial.
Ailment of the Husband:- Ann-Margret, at 81 years old, has given us some memorable on-screen moments and some legendary musical works that are being performed today.
The true Hollywood superstar was born in Sweden in 1941, but she shot to fame in the 1960s. Ann-Margret was born in a little.
Town in northern Sweden, and her meteoric rise to fame was completely unexpected. Her family immigrated to the United States from.
Sweden, a country of “lumberjacks and farmers high up near the Arctic Circle,” in 1946. There were 160 people living there when she and her mother departed, she claimed.
Ann Margret’s singing career took off, and she was often compared to Elvis Presley for her sensuous, powerful voice.
Hollywood quickly saw that she was a complete performer, and the time was ideal. She began her career in show business in 1961 and is still going strong.
Bye Bye Birdie, a musical romantic comedy released in 1963, features her as Kim, an all-American adolescent from Sweet Apple.
Ohio. Ann-Margret appeared on two different covers of Life Magazine as a result of the film’s popularity.
Ann-Margret has had a successful career, but she considers her marriage to actor and manager Roger Smith to be the highlight of her life.
They tied the knot in 1967 and stayed married till Roger’s untimely death in 2017. “My marriage is the thing I am most proud of when I think back on my life,” she remarked.
Although they had a rough start to their relationship, Ann-Margret’s marriage eventually became perfect.
The unhappy Bye Bye Birdie star cried at their civil wedding ceremony in Las Vegas. The ceremony was nothing like she had expected.
Ultimately, thankfully, it didn’t make a difference. Roger Smith and Ann-Margret were devoted to one another and had a particular connection.
“Now in Roger I’ve found all the men I need rolled into one — a father, a friend, a lover, a manager, a businessman,” the actress said.
“It suits me down to a tee. Without a powerful guy, I would perish. Ann-Margret is still residing in the Los Angeles property she and her husband purchased back in 1968.
Ann-Margret and Roger had their share of problems, just like every other relationship. Ann-Margret was unable To conceive after trying for 13 years. A fertility pump wasn’t enough; she also tried everything else.
After a while, Ann-Margret stopped trying and focused on being a good stepmother to Roger’s three children from a previous relationship.
Ann-Margret’s longtime companion died at the age of 76. Since her husband had to give up performing in the 1980s owing to myasthenia gravis.
she wasn’t shocked by Roger’s death in 2017. His vascular and nerve issues were exacerbated by Parkinson’s disease, which he also suffered from.
His illness also necessitated that Ann-Margret take time off from her job to tend to him. She maintained her undying love for him even as his sickness dragged on.
When I was taking care of him, I couldn’t say yes to anything. “If one of you has a broken wing in a marriage, the other takes over,” she said.
Ann-Margret was obviously saddened by the loss of her spouse, yet she was able to go on with her life.
In 2019, a close friend said, “She certainly mourned for Roger, but, more than anything else, she fondly recalled the life they made together.”
He has a passion for motorbikes.:- She believes that death isn’t the conclusion of a wonderful love story. Their soul lives on in you.
Since the year 2023, the brilliant lady has been keeping herself busy. She rides about on her purple Harley Davidson and loves to do so.
The 81-year-old actress is thrilled by the might of the machine under her as she feels the wind in her hair. She certainly isn’t prepared to say goodbye to you just yet.
My bike is the only purple one around if I go someplace where a lot of bikers go. There’s my lavender among all the Harleys and Ducatis. Interesting. She says, “They really enjoy it.”
In 2022, she featured in the TV movie A Holiday Spectacular, so she clearly hasn’t left Hollywood altogether. She’s also dating again, but she won’t say who with just yet.
She thinks falling in love again is a “nice feeling,” and that the new guy in her life is someone she already knows.
I appreciate it all very much. I am grateful for the gift of another day. The Swede confirmed my suspicions.
This lady had an outstanding professional life. We will always admire her for it, and for staying at her husband’s side during his long illness.