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.

Фільмографія

• 2020Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes
• Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye — Receptionist
• 1996The Ring of Truth — Mother
• 1994Синє небо — Lydia
• 1993Короткі історії — Tess Trainer
• 1992Basket Case 3 — Granny Ruth
• 1992Гравець — Annie Ross
• 1990Basket Case 2 — Granny Ruth
• 1990Врубай на повну котушку — Loretta Creswood
• 1988Witchcraft (Evil Encounters) — Rose Brooks
• 1987Скинь маму з поїзда — Mrs. Hazeltine
• Function Room
• 1983Супермен 3 — Vera Webster
• 1982Funny Money — Diana Sharman
• Month of the Doctors — Penny Pinneo
• 1979Yanks — Red Cross lady
• Send in the Girls — Velma Hardy
• The Sunday Drama — Kitty
• 1976Salon Kitty — Kitty Kellermann (singing voice)
• The Ghosts of Motley Hall — Darlene Dewey
• 1975Alfie Darling — Claire
• 1974The Beast Must Die — Caroline Newcliffe (uncredited/voice)
• 1973Плетена людина — Willow MacGreagor (voice) (uncredited)
• 1972Straight On Till Morning — Liza
• 1969One Pair of Eyes - No, But Seriously
• One Pair of Eyes
• The Saint — Annie Ross
• No Hiding Place
• The Steve Allen Show — Self - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
• 1944Musical Movieland — Singer (uncredited)
• 1943Presenting Lily Mars — Rosie
• 1940Cinderella's Feller — Singer
• 1937Our Gang Follies of 1938 — Loch Lomond Singer

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (6)

• 2013Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas — Self
• 2012No One But Me — Self
• 2009The Story of Hal Roach and Our Gang — Self
• 2007Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer — Herself
• 1965Notes for a Film on Jazz — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self