Susan Elizabeth Strasberg was an American stage, film, and television actress.
27 Facts About Susan Strasberg
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Susan Strasberg appeared on the covers of LIFE and Newsweek in 1955.
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Susan Strasberg's father was born in what is Ukraine, and her mother in New York City.
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At age 14, Susan Strasberg appeared off-Broadway in Maya in 1953, which ran seven performances.
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Susan Strasberg was in Romeo and Juliet for Kraft Theatre, playing Juliet, and episodes of General Electric Theater and Omnibus.
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Susan Strasberg had a regular role in a short-lived sitcom, The Marriage, playing the daughter of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy.
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Susan Strasberg followed it with a widely praised performance as a teenager in Picnic, playing the younger sister of Kim Novak.
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Susan Strasberg originated the title role in the Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by Garson Kanin, which ran for 717 performances from 1955 to 1957.
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Susan Strasberg was nominated for a Tony Award at the age of 18 and became the youngest actress to star on Broadway with her name above the marquee title.
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Susan Strasberg decided on the lead in Stage Struck, directed by Sidney Lumet.
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Susan Strasberg was not cast in the George Stevens film version of Anne Frank.
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Susan Strasberg continued to guest star on TV shows like Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, Play of the Week, and Our American Heritage.
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Susan Strasberg was in the cast of the New York City Centre production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life that played at the Brussels World Fair in 1958.
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Susan Strasberg appeared in Sean O'Casey's The Shadow of a Gunman for Jack Garfein alongside members of the Actors Studio; it ran for 52 performances.
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Susan Strasberg based herself in Italy for the next few years.
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Susan Strasberg traveled to England to make Scream of Fear for Hammer Films, and in Italy did Disorder with Louis Jourdan and the Hollywood film Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man.
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Susan Strasberg returned to the US to appear on Broadway in The Lady of the Camellias, directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
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Susan Strasberg began to concentrate on television, guest-starring on Dr Kildare, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Breaking Point, Burke's Law, and The Rogues.
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Susan Strasberg made The High Bright Sun in England then went back to TV: Run for Your Life, The Legend of Jesse James, The Big Valley and The Invaders.
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Susan Strasberg made Chubasco with Jones, and did some counterculture movies: The Trip for Roger Corman, as the wife of Peter Fonda, and Psych-Out with Jack Nicholson.
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Susan Strasberg did occasional TV movies like Hauser's Memory, Mr and Mrs Bo Jo Jones and.
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Susan Strasberg had a regular role on the series Toma.
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Susan Strasberg had the lead in So Evil, My Sister and was in Mystery at Malibu, Sammy Somebody, SST: Death Flight, Rollercoaster, The Manitou, Tre soldi e la donna di classe, In Praise of Older Women, The Immigrants, and Beggarman, Thief.
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Susan Strasberg received a $100,000 advance for it and sold paperback rights for $300,000.
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Susan Strasberg was working on a third book about her personal spiritual journey at the time of her death entitled Confessions of a New Age Heretic.
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On September 25,1965, Susan Strasberg married actor Christopher Jones in Las Vegas, whom she had appeared with in an episode of The Legend of Jesse James.
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Jennifer was born with a congenital birth defect, which Susan Strasberg blamed on her and Jones's drug-taking.