Trivia

Following the death of their own mother ("Mom always liked you best!"), the Smothers Brothers chose Anne Ramsey to receive the flowers and honors on their Mothers' Day show.

She was awarded the 1986 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress in The Goonies (1985), and the 1988 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress in Throw Momma from the Train (1987). In both movies, she played overbearing mothers.

She is one of three people to whom the movie Scrooged (1988) was dedicated.

Though she played the elderly mother of Danny DeVito's character Owen Lift in Throw Momma from the Train (1987), Ms. Ramsey was actually just 15 years older than DeVito. She passed away six months after receiving her Academy Award nomination for the movie.

Though she often played mean old ladies in real life was well known to be a very sweet person.

She appeared with her husband, actor Logan Ramsey in eight films: The Sporting Club (1971), The Law (1974), Blind Ambition (1979), Any Which Way You Can (1980), Say Yes (1986), Scrooged (1988), Doctor Hackenstein (1988), and Meet the Hollowheads (1989).

Daughter of a successful insurance executive and his Pilgrim-descendant wife, she attended exclusive schools in Connecticut and made her debut the same season as Jacqueline Bouvier, the future Mrs. John F. Kennedy.

Following her death, she was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Omaha, Nebraska.

Daughter-in-law of Lieutenant Commander Logan Ramsey.

Has never appeared in a film nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.