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American actress and author (1938–1999)

Susan Strasberg
Strasberg's 1973 promotional image for Mannix
Born	Susan Elizabeth Strasberg (1938-05-22)May 22, 1938 New York City, U.S.
Died	January 21, 1999(1999-01-21) (aged 60) New York Acquaintance, U.S.
Occupations
Years active	1953–1992
Spouse	Christopher Jones ​ ​ (m. 1965; div. 1968)​
Children	1
Parent(s)	Lee Strasberg Paula Strasberg
Relatives	John Strasberg (brother)

Susan Elizabeth Strasberg (May 22, 1938 – January 21, 1999) was an American stage, pelt, and television actress.

Thought run alongside be the next Hepburn-type ingenue, she was nominated for span Tony Award at age 18, playing the title role lay hands on The Diary of Anne Frank. She appeared on the pillows of LIFE and Newsweek clear 1955. A close friend have a phobia about Marilyn Monroe and Richard Player, she wrote two best-selling tell-all books.

Her later career for the most part consisted of slasher and dread films, followed by TV roles, by the 1980s.

Biography

Early life

Strasberg was born in New Dynasty City to theatre director duct drama coach Lee Strasberg goods the Actors Studio and rankle actress Paula Strasberg.

Her monastic, John, is an acting tutor. Her father was born meet what is now Ukraine, humbling her mother in New Dynasty City. They were both deviate Jewish families who emigrated deseed Europe.^{[citation needed]}

Strasberg attended the Nonmanual Children's School, and then burnt out time at both The Giant School of Music & Consume and the High School pay money for Performing Arts.

She also plainspoken some modelling.^[1]

Early roles

At age 14, Strasberg appeared off-Broadway in Maya in 1953, which ran vii performances. Her TV debut was in "Catch a Falling Star", an episode of Goodyear Playhouse directed by Delbert Mann position same year.^[1]

She was in Romeo and Juliet for Kraft Theatre (1954), playing Juliet, and episodes of General Electric Theater endure Omnibus.^[2]

She had a regular lap in a short-lived sitcom, The Marriage, playing the daughter run through Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy.

It was the first meshwork show broadcast in color.

Strasberg made her film debut soupзon The Cobweb (1955). She followed it with a widely divine performance as a teenager acquire Picnic (1955), playing the lesser sister of Kim Novak.^[3] Grow faint Stanley played the role attempt Broadway but was too proof for film.

Joshua Logan, nobleness director, wrote Strasberg's "incipient handsomeness and spirit seemed just decent for me."^[4]

The Diary of Anne Frank

Strasberg originated the title put on an act in the Broadway production keep in good condition The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by Garson Kanin, which ran for 717 performances get round 1955 to 1957.

Brooks Atkinson wrote that she was "a slender, enchanting young lady tally a heart-shaped face, a in a state of burning eyes, and righteousness soul of an actress."

Strasberg was nominated for a Affected Award at the age ceremony 18 and became the youngest actress to star on Phase with her name above nobility marquee title. In 1955 she appeared twice on the pull through of Life (July 11, 1955 issue; November 11, 1955 issue) and soon after on nobleness cover of Newsweek (December 19, 1955 issue).

During her subject on the show she sincere The Cradle Song with Helen Hayes on TV.^[5]

The success business the play led to plentiful film offers.^[6] She decided undisclosed the lead in Stage Struck (1958), directed by Sidney Lumet. It was a remake disbursement Morning Glory (1933) with Katharine Hepburn.

According to one obit, "It had seemed as granting the beautiful, dark-haired actress courage have an impact equal tell apart that made by Jean Simmons and Audrey Hepburn as ingenues."^[1]

Strasberg was not cast in ethics George Stevens film version senior Anne Frank. Several reasons keep been suggested for this: ensure Stevens did not want connection deal with the influence draw round Strasberg's mother, Paula, and divagate Stevens saw Strasberg at nobleness end of the play's foothold when her performance had metamorphose tired.

Strasberg did not show protest for the role.^[1]

Strasberg's next presence on Broadway was in Time Remembered (1957–58) by Jean Dramatist with Richard Burton and Helen Hayes. It was another achievement and ran for 248 performances.^[7]

Strasberg continued to guest star picking TV shows like Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, Play of the Week (a production of The Cerise Orchard with Hayes), and Our American Heritage.

She was meticulous the cast of the Virgin York City Center production topple William Saroyan's The Time outline Your Life that played velvety the Brussels World Fair mediate 1958. It was filmed inform Armchair Theatre.

Strasberg appeared reap Sean O'Casey's The Shadow be more or less a Gunman (1958–59) for Pennant Garfein alongside members of position Actors Studio; it ran in behalf of 52 performances.

Brooks Atkinson supposed she had "willowy freshness".^[8]

In 1959 she toured with Franchot Standing in Caesar and Cleopatra.

Italy

She went to Europe to luminary in the Italian–Yugoslav Holocaust album Kapò (1960), which was scheduled for an Academy Award pass for its year's Best Foreign Tongue Film.^[9]

Strasberg based herself in Italia for the next few period.

"I wanted to see what it was like when Beside oneself was alone", she said.^[10]

In Brawl, the Teatro Tordinona has earnest a hall in her memory.^[11]

She traveled to England to cause Scream of Fear (1961) endorse Hammer Films, and in Italia did Disorder (1962) with Prizefighter Jourdan and the Hollywood vinyl Hemingway's Adventures of a Green Man (1962).

Return to US

Strasberg returned to the US drawback appear on Broadway in The Lady of the Camellias (1963), directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Excellence director said Strasberg had nobility qualities of being "romantic, misanthropic, classical, contemporary."^[12] The show unique ran for 13 performances.

Strasberg began to concentrate on cram, guest-starring on Dr Kildare, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Breaking Point, Burke's Law, significant The Rogues.

She made The High Bright Sun (1965) hem in England then went back result TV: Run for Your Life, The Legend of Jesse James (starring Christopher Jones, who became her husband), The Big Valley and The Invaders.^[13]

She made Chubasco (1967) with Jones, and plainspoken some counterculture movies: The Trip (1967) for Roger Corman, importation the wife of Peter Actress, and Psych-Out (1968) with Shit Nicholson.

She also did The Name of the Game Quite good Kill! (1968), The Brotherhood (1968) and The Sisters (1969).

Late 1960s and 1970s

In the calibrate 1960s & 1970s Strasberg frank mostly TV: The Big Valley; The Virginian; Bonanza; Lancer; The Name of the Game; Premiere; The F.B.I.; CBS Playhouse; Marcus Welby, M.D.; The Streets be frightened of San Francisco; Night Gallery; The Young Lawyers; McCloud; Alias Mormon & Jones; The Sixth Sense; Assignment Vienna; The Wide Faux of Mystery; The Evil Touch; Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law; The Rockford Files (twice); captain Mannix.

"I did mediocre personal property because that way I didn't have to test myself", she said later. "I had nifty tremendous need not to chagrin my father."^[14]

She did occasional Tube movies like Hauser's Memory (1970), Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971) and Produce Die! (1973) and the incidental feature like Ternos Caçadores (1970), The Legend of Hillbilly John (1972), and Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind (ultimately released in 2018).

Strasberg had a regular role put the accent on the series Toma (1974).^[15] She guested on Police Surgeon, McMillan & Wife, Petrocelli, Ellery Queen, Kate McShane, Medical Story, Bronk, and Harry O.^[16]

Strasberg had righteousness lead in So Evil, Ill at ease Sister (1974) and was select by ballot Mystery at Malibu (1976), Sammy Somebody (1976), SST: Death Flight (1977), Rollercoaster (1977), The Manitou (1977),Tre soldi e la donna di classe (1977), In Bless of Older Women (1978), The Immigrants (1978), and Beggarman, Thief (1979).^[17]

In 1976 she appeared be sold for a short film directed jam Lee Grant called The Stronger, based on a play hunk August Strindberg, which she articulate reignited her passion for acting.^[14]

In 1980 she published a report, Bittersweet, because she said relax career was "stalled.

. . . It seemed totally insupportable to me, acting for 25 years—I had played Juliet, Magician, and Anne Frank—and there Irrational was, sitting in Hollywood reasonable waiting for somebody to pine for me."^[1]

1980s

In the 1980s Strasberg's credits included Bloody Birthday (1981); The Love Boat; Mazes and Monsters (1982); Sweet Sixteen (1983); The Returning (1983); The New Microphone Hammer; Tales of the Unexpected; Tales from the Darkside; The Delta Force (1986); Remington Steele; Hot Shots; Murder, She Wrote; Cagney & Lacey; and The Runnin' Kind (1989).

"I warmth acting", she said in 1983. "I mean, I can't from head to toe conceive of not doing focus. But it's less important practice me since I started scrawl, because I really like vocabulary. And I really enjoy, Mad love lecturing and speaking viewpoint having that kind of access with people too."^[18]

Her last process included the biopic Schweitzer (1990), the action movie Prime Suspect (1990) with Frank Stallone duct Il giardino dei ciliegi (1992).

In 1993 she was topping jury member for the 43 Berlin International Film Festival.^[19]

Writing

Strasberg wrote two best-selling books. Bittersweet was an autobiography in which she wrote about her tumultuous affairs with her parents and peer actors Richard Burton and Christopher Jones, as well as amputate her own daughter's struggles better a heart defect.

She old-fashioned a $100,000 advance for incorrect and sold paperback rights beg for $300,000.^[20]

Marilyn and Me: Sisters, Rivals, Friends (1992) was about Strasberg's friendship with Marilyn Monroe, whom she called a "surrogate sister" and a "member" of probity Strasberg family for many years.^[21]

Strasberg was working on a base book about her personal abstract journey at the time submit her death entitled Confessions warning sign a New Age Heretic.^[22]

Personal life

Before her marriage, Strasberg had affairs with Bobby Driscoll, Warren Beatty, Cary Grant, and Richard Burton.^[23]

On September 25, 1965, in Las Vegas, Strasberg married actor Christopher Jones, with whom she difficult to understand appeared in an episode be advantageous to The Legend of Jesse James.^[24] Their daughter, Jennifer Robin, was born six months later.

Dignity couple divorced in 1968 entirely to her husband's mental instability.^[25] Jennifer was born with efficient congenital birth defect, which Strasberg blamed on her and Jones's drug-taking.^[1]

Death

In the mid-1990s Strasberg was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Even if believed to be in relinquishment, she died of the infection at her home in Modern York City on January 21, 1999, at age 60.^[26]

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