Susan Peters

Susan Peters

Nascimento : 1921-07-03, Spokane, Washington, USA

Morte : 1952-10-23

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

Perfil

Susan Peters

Filmes

O Signo de Áries
Leah St. Aubyn
A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.
Éramos Três Mulheres
Ann Darrison
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
Song of Russia
Nadya Stepanova
American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Along the way, they see happy, healthy, smiling, free Soviet citizens, blissfully living the Communist dream. This bliss is destroyed by the German invasion.
Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Cuidado com Mamãe!
Susan Evans
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.
Encontro com o Perigo
Anne Pinot
Um capitão francês (Jean-Pierre Aumont) se apresenta como nazista para localizar uma base de submarinos na costa da França, enquanto assume a identidade de um cidadão francês "Parecido com ele".
Na Noite do Passado
Kitty
An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-War life.
A Dupla Vida de Andy Hardy
Sue
Andy (Mickey Rooney), ligado à faculdade, deixa escapar propostas de casamento para sua namorada Polly (Ann Rutherford) e sua amiga Sheila (Esther Williams).
O Assistente do Dr. Gillespie
Mrs. Howard Allwinn Young
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
Tish
Cora Edwards Bowser
In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.
O Manda-Chuva
Ruth Carter
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.
Personalities
(uncredited)
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.
Three Sons o' Guns
Mary Tyler
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
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.
Here Comes Happiness
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.
A Estrada de Santa Fé
Charlotte
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
Always a Bride
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.
Money and the Woman
Depositor (uncredited)
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
Young America Flies
One of Jack's Girlfriends
World War II propaganda film from Warner Brothers.
Uma Mulher Original
Party Guest (uncredited)
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.