Trivia

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, Féerie à Mexico (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: Un Américain à 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 Le Seigneur des anneaux : Le Retour du roi (2003).

Mother of four children.

Her niece was actress Tanna Harris.