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Ann-Margret turns 85 today carrying a legacy so vast and so varied that most people who love her have only ever seen one corner of it \u2014 the teenager who made Elvis Presley work harder than he usually bothered to on the Viva Las Vegas<\/em> set, the actress who earned Academy Award nominations for both Carnal Knowledge<\/em> and Tommy<\/em> and made everyone who saw those performances understand that what they were watching was not a movie star doing her job but a genuine artist doing something closer to bleeding on screen, the entertainer who brought a physical energy and a musical fearlessness to every stage she ever stood on that made audiences feel they were witnessing something that could not be repeated and would not be forgotten.<\/p>\n

But of everything in that extraordinary catalogue, of every award and every standing ovation and every milestone in a career that has spanned seven decades without losing a single step, the honor that arrived today \u2014 the lifetime USO recognition presented on the occasion of her 85th birthday \u2014 may be the one that sits closest to the center of who Ann-Margret actually is, because the work she has done for American service members across more than fifty years of USO tours, showing up in the most difficult and the most dangerous places the military has asked its entertainers to go, has never been about the spotlight or the applause but about a genuine, privately held conviction that the men and women in uniform deserved to know that somebody back home was thinking about them and cared enough to get on a plane and come say so in person. What she said when they handed her that honor \u2014 in front of the people who had served alongside her across decades of those tours and the new generation of service members who knew her only by reputation \u2014 is the kind of thing that arrives once in a ceremony and then lives forever in the memory of everyone who heard it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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