Susan Peters
Nacimiento : 1921-07-03, Spokane, Washington, USA
Muerte : 1952-10-23
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Susan Peters (born Suzanne Carnahan; July 3, 1921 – October 23, 1952) was an American film, stage, and television actress who appeared in over twenty films over the course of her decade-long career.
In 1942, the year she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Peters had a featured role in the Mervyn LeRoy-directed drama Random Harvest. That role earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and established her as a serious dramatic performer. Peters went on to appear as the lead in numerous films for MGM, including roles in the romantic comedy Young Ideas (1943), and several war films: Assignment in Brittany (1943), Song of Russia (1944), and Keep Your Powder Dry (1945).
On New Year's Day 1945, Peters's spinal cord was damaged from an accidental gunshot wound, leaving her permanently paraplegic. She returned to film portraying a wheelchair-bound villain in The Sign of the Ram (1948). Peters then transitioned to theater, appearing as Laura Wingfield in a critically acclaimed 1949 production of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. She followed this with a production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street, in which she portrayed crippled poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
By 1952, however, Peters had been suffering from clinical depression for several years due to the dissolution of her marriage and her limited career options. In late 1952 she began starving herself, which combined with her paralysis led to chronic kidney infections and pneumonia. She died of ensuing health complications that year at age 31.
Leah St. Aubyn
A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.
Ann Darrison
Un variopinto grupo de mujeres intenta adaptarse sus nuevas vidas después de alistarse en el Cuerpo del Ejército Femenino.
Nadya Stepanova
En los años previos a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un director de orquesta norteamericano, de gira por la Unión Soviética, se enamora de una muchacha nativa. Cuando los nazis atacan el país, ambos deben hacerles frente formando parte de la resistencia.
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Susan Evans
La autora de best-sellers Josephine Evans desaparece sin dejar rastro. Su agente, Adam Trent, recurre a los hijos de la escritora para encontrarla.
Anne Pinot
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
Kitty
Un militar británico que padece amnesia (Colman) se fuga de un hospital psiquiátrico y conoce a Paula (Garson), una mujer con la que emprende una nueva vida: se casa y prueba fortuna como escritor. Después de varios años de feliz convivencia, un día, viaja a Liverpool para intentar vender una de sus obras; allí sufre un accidente de tráfico, que le permite recuperar los recuerdos del pasado, pero se olvida completamente de su esposa.
Sue
La vida de Andy es perfecta: tiene dinero, la familia está bien, ha renunciado a las chicas e irá a la Universidad en unos días. Antes de marcharse, vende su coche a sus amigos, su hermana le pide que interceda en la sentencia de su novio por conducir ebrio, conocerá a Sheila y se comprometerá con dos chicas al mismo tiempo.
Mrs. Howard Allwinn Young
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
Cora Edwards Bowser
In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.
Ruth Carter
Un gánster, próximo a morir en la cárcel, comienza a rememorar su vida. Condenado cuatro veces, la última fue a cadena perpetua, aunque era inocente. El culpable de todo ello fue un famoso abogado convertido en gánster que lo contrató para un atraco a cambio de una gran suma.
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In this "Romance of Celluloid", MGM showcases performers whose careers are just starting. Excerpts from their recently released films are included. The narrator says that moviegoers will have to decide whether these fledgling actors and actresses have that certain quality that made superstars out of MGM players Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and Lana Turner.
Mary Tyler
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
Ruth Savage
Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist who is trying to invent a color television but is being opposed by his girlfriend's father, who wants the girl to marry a pharmacist like himself instead of some crazy inventor.
Miss Brown (uncredited)
Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man. Chet observes a series of suspicious, clandestine meetings with her rich father and his chauffeur which makes him think she is stringing along a "Sugar Daddy" on the side. Financial trickery and sequences of misunderstandings and coincidences culminate with a wedding that turns out much differently than planned.
Charlotte
Como castigo por una pelea con sus compañeros días antes de graduarse en West Point, Jeb Stuart, George Armstrong Custer y cuatro amigos más, son destinados al Segundo de Caballería, estacionado en Fort Leavenworth. Durante su estancia allí, deberán participar en la captura y ejecución del abolicionista, John Brown, tras la Batalla de Harper Ferry.
Girl
A young man wants to marry his sweetheart, but her parents will agree to their wedding only on one condition: he must run for mayor--and win. Comedy.
Depositor (uncredited)
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
One of Jack's Girlfriends
World War II propaganda film from Warner Brothers.
Party Guest (uncredited)
Susana está casada y tiene una hija, pero tras un viaje por Europa, comienza a sentir una ferviente vocación religiosa que le hará abandonar todo aquello que ha construido. Su marido Barrie intentará no perderla.
