23 Facts About Susan Oliver

Susan Oliver began the year with an ingenue part, as the daughter of an 18th-century Manhattan family, in her first Broadway play, Small War on Murray Hill, a Robert E Sherwood comedy.

That same year, Susan Oliver replaced Mary Ure as the female lead in the Broadway production of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger.

In July 1957, Susan Oliver was chosen for the title role in her first motion picture, The Green-Eyed Blonde, a low-budget independent melodrama scripted by Dalton Trumbo, and released by Warner Bros.

In mid-1958, Susan Oliver began rehearsals for a co-starring role in Patate, her second Broadway play.

Susan Oliver was cast in episodes of Adventures in Paradise, Twilight Zone, Route 66, Dr Kildare, The Naked City, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Burke's Law, The Fugitive, Gomer Pyle, USM.

Susan Oliver made one appearance on The Andy Griffith Show and ABC's family Western series, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters.

Susan Oliver made two appearances in Quinn Martin's The Invaders on ABC.

Susan Oliver's most challenging role during this time was as the ambitious wife of doomed country music legend Hank Williams in Your Cheatin' Heart.

Susan Oliver had a continuing role as Ann Howard on ABC's primetime serial Peyton Place in 1966.

Susan Oliver played the female lead guest character Vina in "The Cage", which was the first pilot of Gene Roddenberry's new show, Star Trek.

Two years later, Susan Oliver's performance was reused in the first season, two-part episode "The Menagerie".

Hence, the 2014 documentary about Susan Oliver's life was titled The Green Girl.

From 1975 to 1976, Susan Oliver was a regular cast member of the television soap opera Days of Our Lives.

Susan Oliver made her last onscreen appearance in the November 6,1988, episode of the syndicated horror anthology Freddy's Nightmares.

Susan Oliver experienced an event in February 1959 that underscored her later aviation accomplishments.

Susan Oliver was a passenger aboard Pan Am Flight 115, a Boeing 707 on a transatlantic flight from Paris to New York City when it dropped from 35,000 to 6,000 feet.

Susan Oliver eventually underwent hypnosis to overcome her fear of flying.

Susan Oliver's route included stops in Goose Bay, Canada, Narsarsuaq in Greenland, Keflavik in Iceland, and Prestwick in Scotland, before landing in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Susan Oliver wrote about her aviation exploits and philosophy of life in an autobiography published in 1983 titled Odyssey: A Daring Transatlantic Journey.

Susan Oliver earned the rating and even flew some charters, but did not fly any record flights in their jets.

In 1970, Susan Oliver co-piloted a Piper Comanche to victory in the 2760-mile transcontinental race known as the "Powder Puff Derby", which resulted in her being named Pilot of the Year by the Association of Executive Pilots.

In 1971, Susan Oliver was inducted as a member of the Federal Aviation Administration's Women Advisory Committee on Aviation.

Susan Oliver was diagnosed with colorectal cancer that later metastasized to her lungs, and she died on May 10,1990, at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.