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Susan Harrison est une Actrice Américaine née le 26 aout 1938 à Leesburg (Etats-Unis)
Susan Harrison (born August 26, 1938, in Leesburg, Florida) is an American actress. She is most famous for her appearance in the 1957 film noir classic Sweet Smell of Success as the sister for whom Burt Lancaster has an unhealthy affection as well as in The Twilight Zone episode "Five Characters in Search of an Exit".
She is a graduate of the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, where she played Frankie in Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers and Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. She attended Boston University, briefly studying under Peter Kass, who directed her in the role of Abigail in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Her professional debut was in the live television drama Can You Coffeepot on Skates?, presented in 1956. This was followed by television appearances on Matinee Theatre and Alfred Hitchcock Presents and her cinematic debut in Sweet Smell of Success. On October 19, 1957, she opened on Broadway at the Bijou Theater, playing "the Girl" in William Saroyan's new play The Cave Dwellers to uniformly good reviews. The following year she was in the Playhouse 90 production of In Lonely Expectation, which brought her to the attention of Rod Serling and led to her role as the ballerina in the iconic Twilight Zone episode. She had several later television and stage roles, most notably in an episode of the television show Bonanza, "Dark Star." In 1960 she played Ruby, the female lead, in the little-seen film Key Witness with Jeffrey Hunter and Dennis Hopper.
By 1963 she had left public life and acting and devoted herself to family matters, though in the 1990s she played Elberta in a Jackson County Stage Company (Carbondale, Illinois) production of Mixed Couples. She has since appeared at various film and science fiction conventions.
She is the mother of Darva Conger, best known as the winner of the reality television show Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?.
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She is a graduate of the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, where she played Frankie in Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers and Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. She attended Boston University, briefly studying under Peter Kass, who directed her in the role of Abigail in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Her professional debut was in the live television drama Can You Coffeepot on Skates?, presented in 1956. This was followed by television appearances on Matinee Theatre and Alfred Hitchcock Presents and her cinematic debut in Sweet Smell of Success. On October 19, 1957, she opened on Broadway at the Bijou Theater, playing "the Girl" in William Saroyan's new play The Cave Dwellers to uniformly good reviews. The following year she was in the Playhouse 90 production of In Lonely Expectation, which brought her to the attention of Rod Serling and led to her role as the ballerina in the iconic Twilight Zone episode. She had several later television and stage roles, most notably in an episode of the television show Bonanza, "Dark Star." In 1960 she played Ruby, the female lead, in the little-seen film Key Witness with Jeffrey Hunter and Dennis Hopper.
By 1963 she had left public life and acting and devoted herself to family matters, though in the 1990s she played Elberta in a Jackson County Stage Company (Carbondale, Illinois) production of Mixed Couples. She has since appeared at various film and science fiction conventions.
She is the mother of Darva Conger, best known as the winner of the reality television show Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?.
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Key Witness (1960)
Réalisé par Phil Karlson
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Thriller, Policier
Acteurs Dennis Hopper, Jeffrey Hunter, Pat Crowley, Susan Harrison, Joby Baker, Corey Allen
Rôle Ruby
Note61%
An average Los Angeles citizen witnesses a gang murder when he stops to use a telephone. Aware that he is the only witness against them, the gang members seek out his identity and terrorize him and his family to keep him from testifying against them. Only by psychologically playing one gang member against the others is the man able to bring the police to his rescue.
Le Grand Chantage (1957)
, 1h36Réalisé par Alexander Mackendrick
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Thriller, Noir, Policier, Romance
Thèmes Film sur un écrivain, Journalisme
Acteurs Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Martin Milner, Susan Harrison, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols
Rôle Susan Hunsecker
Note79%
J.J. Hunsecker est l'éditorialiste le plus influent de New York. Il a décidé d'empêcher sa sœur d'épouser un guitariste de jazz. Pour cela, il demande à Sidney Falco, attaché de presse minable et sans scrupules, de tout faire pour empêcher cette union. Ce dernier, aux abois, n'hésitera pas à se compromettre pour arriver à ses fins.
Blood of Dracula (1957)
, 1h8Réalisé par Herbert L. Strock
Genres Horreur
Thèmes Le thème de l'éducation, Dracula, Vampire
Acteurs Susan Harrison, Malcolm Atterbury, Richard Devon, Don Devlin, Paul Maxwell
Rôle Nancy Perkins
Note45%
Nancy Perkins, qui n’apprécie pas que son père se soit remarié, est expédiée dans un internat. Dans cet établissement de jeunes filles, elle rencontre Miss Branding, un professeur de chimie qui cherche à établir la validité de ses théories quant à la nature humaine. Miss Branding est convaincue que Nancy sera le cobaye idéal… Elle ne devrait pas avoir de difficultés à cristalliser la colère qui habite la jeune Nancy et prouver ainsi que chacun héberge en soi un meurtrier en puissance...