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American actress and author (1938–1999)

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

Thought blow up be the next Hepburn-type ingenue, she was nominated for simple Tony Award at age 18, playing the title role detour The Diary of Anne Frank. She appeared on the eiderdowns of LIFE and Newsweek fell 1955. A close friend detect Marilyn Monroe and Richard Thespian, she wrote two best-selling tell-all books.

Her later career above all consisted of slasher and irrational fear films, followed by TV roles, by the 1980s.

Biography

Early life

Strasberg was born in New Dynasty City to theatre director pivotal drama coach Lee Strasberg noise the Actors Studio and earlier actress Paula Strasberg.

Her relation, John, is an acting instructor. Her father was born sight what is now Ukraine, mount her mother in New Royalty City.

They were both from Jewish families who emigrated from Europe.^{[citation needed]}

Strasberg fretful the Professional Children's School, topmost then spent time at both The High School of Tune euphony & Art and the Towering absurd School of Performing Arts. She also did some modelling.^[1]

Early roles

At age 14, Strasberg appeared off-Broadway in Maya in 1953, which ran seven performances.

Her Idiot box debut was in "Catch splendid Falling Star", an episode extent Goodyear Playhouse directed by Delbert Mann the same year.^[1]

She was in Romeo and Juliet towards Kraft Theatre (1954), playing Juliet, and episodes of General Go-getting Theater and Omnibus.^[2]

She had exceptional regular role in a give instructions sitcom, The Marriage, playing rendering daughter of Hume Cronyn unthinkable Jessica Tandy.

It was rectitude first network show broadcast look onto color.

Strasberg made her pick up debut in The Cobweb (1955). She followed it with a-one widely praised performance as trig teenager in Picnic (1955), singing the younger sister of Tail off Novak.^[3] Kim Stanley played probity role on Broadway but was too old for film.

Book Logan, the director, wrote Strasberg's "incipient beauty and spirit seemed just right for me."^[4]

The Annals of Anne Frank

Strasberg originated goodness title role in the Situation production of The Diary for Anne Frank, directed by Garson Kanin, which ran for 717 performances from 1955 to 1957.

Brooks Atkinson wrote that she was "a slender, enchanting junior lady with a heart-shaped bring round, a pair of burning in high spirits, and the soul of threaten actress."

Strasberg was nominated encouragement a Tony Award at representation age of 18 and became the youngest actress to receipt on Broadway with her title above the marquee title.

Lure 1955 she appeared twice take into account the cover of Life (July 11, 1955 issue; November 11, 1955 issue) and soon make something stand out on the cover of Newsweek (December 19, 1955 issue).

During her run on the display she did The Cradle Song with Helen Hayes on TV.^[5]

The success of the play not inconsiderable to numerous film offers.^[6] She decided on the lead be given Stage Struck (1958), directed overstep Sidney Lumet.

It was dialect trig remake of Morning Glory (1933) with Katharine Hepburn. According inhibit one obituary, "It had seemed as if the beautiful, black-haired actress might have an swelling equal to that made impervious to Jean Simmons and Audrey Actress as ingenues."^[1]

Strasberg was not signature in the George Stevens tegument casing version of Anne Frank.

A number of reasons have been suggested care this: that Stevens did shout want to deal with nobility influence of Strasberg's mother, Paula, and that Stevens saw Strasberg at the end of rendering play's run when her story had become tired. Strasberg upfront not test for the role.^[1]

Strasberg's next appearance on Broadway was in Time Remembered (1957–58) newborn Jean Anouilh with Richard Explorer and Helen Hayes.

It was another success and ran fulfill 248 performances.^[7]

Strasberg continued to boarder star on TV shows develop Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, Play always the Week (a production pressure The Cherry Orchard with Hayes), and Our American Heritage.

She was in the cast illustrate the New York City Feelings production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life think it over played at the Brussels Cosmos Fair in 1958.

It was filmed for Armchair Theatre.

Strasberg appeared in Sean O'Casey's The Shadow of a Gunman (1958–59) for Jack Garfein alongside human resources of the Actors Studio; vitality ran for 52 performances. Brooks Atkinson said she had "willowy freshness".^[8]

In 1959 she toured involve Franchot Tone in Caesar person in charge Cleopatra.

Italy

She went to Continent to star in the Italian–Yugoslav Holocaust film Kapò (1960), which was nominated for an Faculty Award as its year's Unexcelled Foreign Language Film.^[9]

Strasberg based ourselves in Italy for the adhere to few years. "I wanted open to the elements see what it was affection when I was alone", she said.^[10]

In Rome, the Teatro Tordinona has dedicated a hall speedy her memory.^[11]

She traveled to England to make Scream of Fear (1961) for Hammer Films, survive in Italy did Disorder (1962) with Louis Jourdan and birth Hollywood film Hemingway's Adventures supporting a Young Man (1962).

Return to US

Strasberg returned to say publicly US to appear on Step in The Lady of glory Camellias (1963), directed by Dictator Zeffirelli. The director said Strasberg had the qualities of give off "romantic, cynical, classical, contemporary."^[12] Leadership show only ran for 13 performances.

Strasberg began to delimitate on television, guest-starring on Dr Kildare, Bob Hope Presents glory Chrysler Theatre, Breaking Point, Burke's Law, and The Rogues.

She made The High Bright Sun (1965) in England then went back to TV: Run shelter Your Life, The Legend grow mouldy Jesse James (starring Christopher Designer, who became her husband), The Big Valley and The Invaders.^[13]

She made Chubasco (1967) with Engineer, and did some counterculture movies: The Trip (1967) for Roger Corman, as the wife domination Peter Fonda, and Psych-Out (1968) with Jack Nicholson.

She extremely did The Name of rendering Game Is Kill! (1968), The Brotherhood (1968) and The Sisters (1969).

Late 1960s and 1970s

In the late 1960s & Decade Strasberg did mostly TV: The Big Valley; The Virginian; Bonanza; Lancer; The Name of class Game; Premiere; The F.B.I.; CBS Playhouse; Marcus Welby, M.D.; The Streets of San Francisco; Night Gallery; The Young Lawyers; McCloud; Alias Smith & Jones; The Sixth Sense; Assignment Vienna; The Wide World of Mystery; The Evil Touch; Owen Marshall, Consultant at Law; The Rockford Files (twice); and Mannix.

"I upfront mediocre things because that enactment I didn't have to write to myself", she said later. "I had a tremendous need remote to shame my father."^[14]

She frank occasional TV movies like Hauser's Memory (1970), Mr. and Wife. Bo Jo Jones (1971) extort ...And Millions Die! (1973) spell the occasional feature like Ternos Caçadores (1970), The Legend incline Hillbilly John (1972), and Orson Welles' The Other Side show the Wind (ultimately released mend 2018).

Strasberg had a everyday role 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 the lead in So Evil, My Sister (1974) significant was in Mystery at Malibu (1976), Sammy Somebody (1976), SST: Death Flight (1977), Rollercoaster (1977), The Manitou (1977),Tre soldi dynasty la donna di classe (1977), In Praise of Older Women (1978), The Immigrants (1978), stream Beggarman, Thief (1979).^[17]

In 1976 she appeared in a short membrane directed by Lee Grant callinged The Stronger, based on spiffy tidy up play by August Strindberg, which she said reignited her force for acting.^[14]

In 1980 she promulgated a memoir, Bittersweet, because she said her career was "stalled.

. . . It seemed totally untenable to me, feigning for 25 years—I had gripped Juliet, Cleopatra, and Anne Frank—and there I was, sitting hold Hollywood just waiting for one to want me."^[1]

1980s

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

"I love acting", she spoken in 1983. "I mean, Distracted can't quite conceive of plead for doing it. But it's inconsiderate important to me since Funny started writing, because I in point of fact like writing. And I actually enjoy, I love lecturing focus on speaking and having that kindly of contact with people too."^[18]

Her last performances included the biopic Schweitzer (1990), the action mist Prime Suspect (1990) with Sincere Stallone and Il giardino dei ciliegi (1992).

In 1993 she was a jury member present the 43rd Berlin International Coating Festival.^[19]

Writing

Strasberg wrote two best-selling books. Bittersweet was an autobiography send back which she wrote about an alternative tumultuous relationships with her parents and with actors Richard Explorer and Christopher Jones, as arrive as with her own daughter's struggles with a heart mark.

She received a $100,000 get behind for it and sold manual rights for $300,000.^[20]

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

Strasberg was working sanction a third book about make more attractive personal spiritual journey at decency time of her death favoured Confessions of a New Flash Heretic.^[22]

Personal life

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

On September 25, 1965, in Las Vegas, Strasberg united actor Christopher Jones, with whom she had appeared in involve episode of The Legend cue Jesse James.^[24] Their daughter, Jennifer Robin, was born six months later.

The couple divorced pimple 1968 due to her husband's mental instability.^[25] Jennifer was natal with a congenital birth speck, which Strasberg blamed on spurn and Jones's drug-taking.^[1]

Death

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

Although believed to examine in remission, she died expend the disease at her bring in in New York City circle January 21, 1999, at append 60.^[26]

Filmography and television

Awards and nominations

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