How did Ann Reinking die?

Ruined her Hollywood career ? Reinking had a successful Broadway career, not exactly a Hollywood career (I only remember her from the 1982 film 'Annie'). BTW, she was interred in Scottsdale, AZ (not Florida). She lived in Paradise Valley, AZ since she retired in 2017.

She was a co-star in All That Jazz, among others.

What, "ruin," Mary OP?

She was also a co-star in 'Mikki and Maude', but three movies in the early 80s doesn't make 'a Hollywood career'.

Bob Fosse’s huge cock killed her.

That voice.

My friend and I were sitting underneath the Ann Reinking tree in Central Park and asked Ann to send us a sign that she was with us. A few seconds later, a leaf fell from the tree and landed on the top of my head. We both got chills and took it as a sign from Ann.

One comment says "Despite wars and starving children this must be the worst moment of anything in all of time." I wish I had come up with that line.

OP, just look at her in your photo. She does not look healthy.

Reinking's movie career was on an upswing because of Micki and Maude. Against all Odds, in front of the Hollywood heavy hitters made her a laughingstock. After the performance, she never did another movie.

Ennui.

Was it possible that Reinking herself had Marfans? Her son had it and it's genetic.

She stopped breathing.

Her eyes are wonky in the video @ R7.

This tribute to her is quite lovely.

She had a successful run on Broadway in Chicago with Bebe Neuwirth. She was 71, OP, it’s not like she was a member of the 27 club.

I saw her perform in Chicago on Broadway with Ben Vereen. It was incredible.

I saw her in "Sweet Charity." She was a great dancer, but she did not have the personality the part requires.

She rode Bobby Fosse’s cock like a porn star.

I had the fortune of taking a ballet class with her. She was striking and very personable.

She had great legs and footwork, but her upper body was a mess and stiff, plus, her neck was very short for a dancer.

Jesus, Jeff Bridges was so handsome in that Oscar clip from 1985.

I have nothing to add about Reinking except whatever talent she had, it didn’t translate through the movie or TV camera.

Good dancer, yes. Magnetic and beautiful woman, no.

Her last husband said she had heart problems but didn't die of covid.

Saw her on an episode of “The Cosby Show.” Her voice was like styrofoam being crunched.

[quote]A few seconds later, a leaf fell from the tree and landed on the top of my head. We both got chills and took it as a sign from Ann.

I would take it as a sign from the tree.

She looks like a cross between Carrie Fisher and Gloria Vanderbilt.

[quote]A few seconds later, a leaf fell from the tree and landed on the top of my head. We both got chills and took it as a sign from Ann.

[quote]I would take it as a sign from the tree.

Maybe Ann *is* the tree.

[quote]Reinking's movie career was on an upswing because of Micki and Maude. Against all Odds, in front of the Hollywood heavy hitters made her a laughingstock. After the performance, she never did another movie.

Micki and Maude was a flop. Reinking's movie career never took off because she photographed really badly and was difficult to cast.

[quote]Against all Odds, in front of the Hollywood heavy hitters made her a laughingstock.

Her performance in that dance number is fine. Please explain to us what is particularly wrong with it.

The heavy hitters of Hollywood were well aware that Reinking was a major Broadway musical star and deservedly so.

One cheesy dance number at the Academy Awards was not going to suddenly turn her into a "laughing stock".

R27, yet it did. It is arguably the most remembered (for all the wrong reasons) Oscar musical performance ever.

R28 Whew, what a relief it's not ours!

What kind of a tree was she, R26?

I don’t remember seeing her performance of “Against All Odds” at the Oscars that year. Seeing it now, while I thought the choregoraphy was boring her dancing was good. It was her singing — and especially her sudden shouting for emotional emphasis — that branded the whole performance as campily bad. Her serious attempts to ‘act’ the silly pop song (a huge hit record that year) was risible.

But the Rob Lowe/Snow White opening number was certainly worse.

Micki & Maude was not a flop. It grossed $26m (the equivalent of $78m today) and only cost $15m.

R7 I almost pissed myself laughing when I read that comment. I'm surprised she didn't die of embarrassment right there onstage.

How could any performer mess up the lyrics when they were prerecorded?

She made no other films after the Oscars. I mean, not even a supporting role. She should have done Mame. She could have used Lucy's soundtrack and no one would have known the difference.

Ann Reinking's number was hardly the most embarrassing or worst musical performance on the Oscars. Not when the Alan Carr 1989 ceremony exists with at least three even worse, much more memorable and frequently written about to this day, numbers. The only people who ever talk about the Ann Reinking numbers are bitchy old queens.

I think Carrie Fisher strangled her with a chain while she was trying to dump Mark Hamill into the Sarlacc's pit.

She was no Liza Minnelli ! That's for damn sure !

"I have nothing to add about Reinking except whatever talent she had, it didn’t translate through the movie or TV camera."

It sure did in ALL THAT JAZZ. I can't imagine anyone else in the role, and she should have gotten a supporting nomination. Leland Palmer should have gotten one, too. Both perfectly cast.

She was strangled to death by jazz hands.