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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.
Susan Peters Biography / Wiki
Name | Susan Peters |
Also Know | Suzanne Carnahan |
Gender | Female |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Spokane, Washington, USA |
Date of Birth | 1921-07-03 |
Age(as in 2022) | 31 |
Deathday | 1952-10-23 |
Susan Peters Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
The Sign of the Ram | Leah St. Aubyn | 1948-03-03 | A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged…. |
Young Ideas | Susan Evans | 1943-08-02 | A widow’s grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor…. |
Song of Russia | Nadya Stepanova | 1944-02-10 | American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in l… |
Assignment in Brittany | Anne Pinot | 1943-03-11 | A French Resistance fighter discovers he’s a dead ringer for a Nazi official…. |
Dr. Gillespie’s New Assistant | Mrs. Howard Allwinn Young | 1942-11-01 | The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from…. |
Keep Your Powder Dry | Ann Darrison | 1945-04-01 | A debutante (Lana Turner), a serviceman’s bride (Susan Peters) and a girl (Laraine Day) from a military family join the Women’s Army Corps…. |
Scattergood Pulls the Strings | Ruth Savage | 1941-05-23 | Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist wh… |
Random Harvest | Kitty | 1942-12-17 | 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-… |
The Big Shot | Ruth Carter | 1942-06-13 | 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, haunt… |
Tish | Cora Edwards Bowser | 1942-09-17 | In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker…. |
Personalities | (uncredited) | 1942-01-01 | In this “Romance of Celluloid”, MGM showcases performers whose careers are just starting. Excerpts from their recently released films are included. Th… |
Three Sons o’ Guns | Mary Tyler | 1941-08-02 | Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men…. |
Young America Flies | One of Jack’s Girlfriends | 1940-07-13 | World War II propaganda film from Warner Brothers…. |
Always a Bride | Girl | 1940-11-02 | 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…. |
Andy Hardy’s Double Life | Sue | 1942-12-01 | Andy is about to head off to college but he’s got a few things to take care of before leaving. For starters, he must try and sell his junk car for $20… |
The Strawberry Blonde | Girl (uncredited) | 1941-02-21 | Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nef… |
Here Comes Happiness | Miss Brown (uncredited) | 1941-03-14 | 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 b… |
Santa Fe Trail | Charlotte | 1940-12-20 | As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assign… |
Susan and God | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1940-06-07 | A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group…. |
Money and the Woman | Depositor (uncredited) | 1940-08-17 | An embezzler’s wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him…. |
Twenty Years After | 1944-01-01 | This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases…. | |
Credit: TMDB
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