Susan Peters
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.
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Credits
- 2000 · The Huntress as
- 1951 · Miss Susan as Susan Martin
- 1948 · The Sign of the Ram as Leah St. Aubyn
- 1945 · Keep Your Powder Dry as Ann Darrison
- 1944 · Song of Russia as Nadya Stepanova
- 1944 · Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
- 1943 · Young Ideas as Susan Evans
- 1943 · Assignment in Brittany as Anne Pinot
- 1942 · Random Harvest as Kitty
- 1942 · Andy Hardy's Double Life as Sue
- 1942 · Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant as Mrs. Howard Allwinn Young
- 1942 · Tish as Cora Edwards Bowser
- 1942 · The Big Shot as Ruth Carter
- 1942 · Personalities as (uncredited)
- 1941 · Three Sons o' Guns as Mary Tyler
- 1941 · Scattergood Pulls the Strings as Ruth Savage
- 1941 · Here Comes Happiness as Miss Brown (uncredited)
- 1940 · Santa Fe Trail as Charlotte
- 1940 · Always a Bride as Girl
- 1940 · Money and the Woman as Depositor (uncredited)
- 1940 · Young America Flies as One of Jack's Girlfriends
- 1940 · Susan and God as Party Guest (uncredited)