Sue Casey

Geboren am
8. April 1926 · Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA
Verstorben
21. Februar 2019 · Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA (nicht bekannt gegeben)
Geburtsname
Suzanne Marguerite Philips

Worked for Tom Kelly, the photographer whose iconic late 1940s nude shot of a very young and unknown Marilyn Monroe made history. Sue was asked to do the same shoot but refused at the time because, as a wife and mother, she felt it wrong to be seen in this kind of light. Sue and Marilyn also worked for the same modeling agency -- the Snively Agency. -- at one point.
Born in Los Angeles, she was an actress and Hollywood extra who appeared in over 75 productions between the years 1945 and 2002.
When she was in high school, a talent agent saw her and began interviewing her at studios. While she was still a teenage, she appeared in her first film, Ball in der Botschaft (1946). She was also a model and, in the late-fifties, she temporarily transitioned from films to television commercials so she could spend more time with her family. She appeared in over 200 commercials including ads for Chrysler, Maxell House and Kelloggs.
She appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners which were released 48 years apart: Ein Amerikaner in Paris (1951) and American Beauty (1999). The only actor to appear in two films released further apart which both won Best Picture is Christopher Lee, who appeared in Hamlet (1948) and Der Herr der Ringe: Die Rückkehr des Königs (2003).
Mother of four children.

I am very surprised that this film has such a following because it is just awful. I remember being interviewed by somebody a few years ago who was writing a book on the one hundred worst movies ever made. I can say that certifiably that it is one of the worst movies ever made. It was so comical. I did it because I though, 'What the heck. Maybe somebody will see it.' Actually, I got a couple of jobs out of it. I couldn't believe it. The roles were all in these crummy movies but it was work. -- SC, referring to her cult movie The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965).
I was cast as showgirls, models, and in bit parts in literally dozens of films. It was fabulous. Back then you would be on a movie for three months at a time. I worked with Esther Williams in five movies. In most of her films I am swimming right next to her and some people can't tell us apart. I tell everyone that she's the one with the better costume.