1921-07-03 ( 103 years old ) in Spokane, Washington, USA
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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.
Movies
The Sign of the Ram
1948-03-03
Keep Your Powder Dry
1945-04-01
Song of Russia
1944-02-10
Twenty Years After
1944-01-01
Young Ideas
1943-08-02
Assignment in Brittany
1943-03-11
Random Harvest
1942-12-17
Andy Hardy's Double Life
1942-12-01
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
1942-11-01
Tish
1942-09-17
The Big Shot
1942-06-13
Personalities
1942-01-01
Three Sons o' Guns
1941-08-02
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
1941-05-23
Here Comes Happiness
1941-03-15
Santa Fe Trail
1940-12-20
Always a Bride
1940-11-02
Money and the Woman
1940-08-17
Young America Flies
1940-07-13
Susan and God
1940-06-07
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