American film and television actress and model, born in Los Angeles, California, USA as Suzanne Marguerite Philips. She married Johnny Durant, and they had four children. Her most important works include American Beauty (1999) and Paint Your Wagon (1969). In the sixties, she...Read more obtained a real estate broker's license. Born in Southern California to a builder father, she lived with her family in Beverly Hills, but had to move to a more modest area of the city after the stock market crash of 1929. Her beauty appealed to the MGM talent agent who convinced her to act, and she first appeared as a beautiful girl in the musical comedy Holiday in Mexico (1946). She was presented as the Goldwyn Girl in the fantasy comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947). However, she did not reach stardom and her work was limited to minor roles such as the beautiful girl, the model, the chorus girl, the dancer, the dance coach, the maid, the secretary, the cowgirl, the nurse, the mother, and the party guest. She worked in musicals, such as Words and Music (1948) and worked with Esther Williams in 5 films, including Neptune's Daughter (1949). She was loaned to Paramount, Columbia, Universal, and Warner Bros. In the mid-fifties, she devoted herself to taking care of her family and her only son, and she gave birth to 3 other kids. At the end of the fifties, she resumed her career, and she focused more on television work and went on to work in commercials heavily. She presented more than 200 commercials. She then starred in The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965). She developed a successful real estate company, besides working sporadically in film and television. She presented her last work, an episode in the series So Little Time (2002), and then retired to devote herself to her real estate company until she died at the age of 92 in Los Angeles, California, USA on February 21, 2019.
(According to views)
American film and television actress and model, born in Los Angeles, California, USA as Suzanne Marguerite Philips. She married Johnny Durant, and they had four children. Her most...Read more important works include American Beauty (1999) and Paint Your Wagon (1969). In the sixties, she obtained a real estate broker's license. Born in Southern California to a builder father, she lived with her family in Beverly Hills, but had to move to a more modest area of the city after the stock market crash of 1929. Her beauty appealed to the MGM talent agent who convinced her to act, and she first appeared as a beautiful girl in the musical comedy Holiday in Mexico (1946). She was presented as the Goldwyn Girl in the fantasy comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947). However, she did not reach stardom and her work was limited to minor roles such as the beautiful girl, the model, the chorus girl, the dancer, the dance coach, the maid, the secretary, the cowgirl, the nurse, the mother, and the party guest. She worked in musicals, such as Words and Music (1948) and worked with Esther Williams in 5 films, including Neptune's Daughter (1949). She was loaned to Paramount, Columbia, Universal, and Warner Bros. In the mid-fifties, she devoted herself to taking care of her family and her only son, and she gave birth to 3 other kids. At the end of the fifties, she resumed her career, and she focused more on television work and went on to work in commercials heavily. She presented more than 200 commercials. She then starred in The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965). She developed a successful real estate company, besides working sporadically in film and television. She presented her last work, an episode in the series So Little Time (2002), and then retired to devote herself to her real estate company until she died at the age of 92 in Los Angeles, California, USA on February 21, 2019.