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Ann-Margret: As a person, I am still many times fragile and vulnerable; it’s just the way I am. My parents were like that, too. It does present challenges for me. I can be knocked over by a feather when I’m really down although I must say that when I’m on stage, it’s different.
Ann-Margret: One of my nicknames is ‘Slugger,’ referring to the fact that even when I get knocked down, I get back up again.
Ann-Margret: The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a car... (more Ann-margret quotes)
Her husband, Roger Smith, has been suffering from Myasthenia Gravis since 1980.
In 1960, she joined the singing group "The Suttletones."
In 1959, she was in Life Magazine dressed as a cheerleader in an advertisement for the Schaffer Pen Company.
Ann-Margret went to the same high school (New Trier in Winnetka, Illinois) as Ralph Bellamy, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, Hugh O'Brien, Bruce Dern... (more Ann-margret trivia)