(217) ANN-MARGRET POCKET FULL OF MIRACLES

Here's a short YouTube presentation from the 1961 movie, directed by Frank Capra, called "Pocket Full Of Miracles." In this film Bette Davis plays the mother of a daughter, played by Ann-Margret, who is invented a society dame in order to impress her daughter's Spanish fiancee, who knows nothing of her illegitimate birth.

"Pocketful of Miracles" was Ann-Margret's big screen debut in 1961 and she was on screen with a couple of the most talented actors Hollywood ever had - Glenn Ford and Bette Davis.

Ann-Margret figures big in the Elvis Presley story as most of you probably know. Elvis wouldn't meet Ann for a couple years but just about any man who was interested in beautiful women couldn't help but notice this starlet who's big break occurred in Las Vegas when George Burns hired her for his act.

Here's a link to an impressive Swedish Internet site that features Ann-Margret!

http://www.ann-margret-from-sweden.com/records/records.html

WES BRYAN - COOL MAGAZINE

Here's one of the magazines I was mentioned in back in March of 1958 as the New James Dean. It had an article about James "Jimmy" Dean as well. (That's another fellow on the cover - another hipster!) The comparisons of me and James Dean went on and on. More than one man hoped to fill those big shoes James Dean left but I was the one with United Artists behind me. I was being groomed by United Artists to play Jimmy in a "Bio Pic" about his life, which was never meant to be. But about this time in New York I met the great actor Paul Newman. He said to me, "There's a great need to fill James Dean's shoes and you're it!

Oh - that's Ronnie Burns on the cover... Guess who his dad was? George Burns. That's right. George who gave Ann-Margret her start in Las Vegas! If I remember the photo spread inside, it had Ronnie at home pool side with a lot of sexy girls sitting around him...