18 Facts About Susan Cabot

Susan Cabot rose to prominence for her roles in a variety of Western films, including Tomahawk, The Duel at Silver Creek, and Gunsmoke.

Susan Cabot subsequently returned to Hollywood in the later part of the decade, and appeared in a series of films by director Roger Corman, such as Sorority Girl, War of the Satellites, and Machine-Gun Kelly.

Susan Cabot made her final film appearance in Corman's horror feature, The Wasp Woman.

Susan Cabot spent the following two decades largely in seclusion, though she did appear in off-Broadway theatre in the early 1960s, and made a 1970 television appearance on the series Bracken's World.

Susan Cabot was born Harriet Pearl Shapiro on July 9,1927, to a Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts.

Susan Cabot led an early life filled with turmoil; after her father abandoned their family, Cabot's mother Elizabeth was institutionalized, leaving Cabot orphaned.

Susan Cabot was raised in eight different foster homes, spending the majority of her early life in the New York City borough of the Bronx.

Susan Cabot attended high school in Manhattan, and found employment as an illustrator of children's books.

Susan Cabot supplemented her income by working as a singer, performing at the Village Barn club in Manhattan.

Susan Cabot married her first husband, the artist Martin Sacker, on July 30,1944, in Washington, DC, while still a minor.

Susan Cabot made her film debut in Twentieth Century Fox's film noir Kiss of Death, which was filmed in New York, playing a bit part as a restaurant patron.

Susan Cabot was spotted performing at the Village Barn by a talent scout for Columbia Pictures, who cast her in On the Isle of Samoa.

Dissatisfied with her film offers, Susan Cabot asked to be released from her contract in 1954.

Susan Cabot studied acting with Sanford Meisner in New York, and continued to pursue a stage career, appearing in a short-lived run of the musical Shangri-La in Boston in 1959.

Susan Cabot returned to Los Angeles and resumed a film career in the latter part of the 1950s, appearing in a series of films for Roger Corman: Carnival Rock, Sorority Girl, The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent, War of the Satellites, and Machine-Gun Kelly.

Susan Cabot soon had a seven-year affair with King Hussein of Jordan and their only child, Timothy Scott, was born out of wedlock in 1964.

Susan Cabot then hid the bar and scalpel, and told police that a man in a ninja mask had killed his mother.

Susan Cabot was given credit for the time he had already served in jail awaiting trial.