She had starlet written all over her.
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LemonJokeKid — 19 years ago(May 27, 2006 11:19 AM)
Why did her career fade? Well, working with bi-polar disorder can be difficult; and she also made some lousy marriage choices. It's a shame - she was once in the same league as Ann-Margret and Tuesday Weld, who are still appreciated today.
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threatsicle — 19 years ago(August 09, 2006 03:51 AM)
I think that whole mystery is what draws everyone in. Such controversy and such secrecy. Manic-depression totally brings the best out of everything!
All kidding aside though, I would love to see her put out an auto-biography of some sort. Like many others, I totally fell in love with her after seeing
Lolita
and seeing her shun Hollywood after having her little streaks and turmoils just piqued my interest even more. It'd be awesome to hear her tell her story, or even have it be made into a TV movie even though I doubt anyone can really fill in her shoes
Trephination is fun.
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BlueGreen — 18 years ago(June 08, 2007 04:18 PM)
To put it bluntly: she most likely disappeared because she really wasn't a very good actress. (Apparently you had to be one to have a career, all those years ago)
You said it yourself: she was a starlet.
By definition, starlets don't have a long public lifespan.
She was - I hope she still is - drop-dead gorgeous.
But her acting makes me cringe.
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Belletrist0 — 18 years ago(June 26, 2007 07:47 PM)
I have to agree: Sue was an okay but not a great actress. I think even she knew that the part that made her a star (
Lolita
) was only acquired because of her breasts and pretty face and not her acting talent.
There were other factors at play, too. Her personal problems, such as her battle with Bi-polar disorder, a crippling car accident, her brother James' suicide, and multiple marriages, did not exactly put her into a favourable position with the public, either. Moreover, after
Lolita
, when she should have been trying to network with different directors and producers, she was already becoming a problem to work with. During the filming of
The Night of the Iguana
, the director banned her then-boyfriend, Hampton, from the set.
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tightspotkilo — 17 years ago(November 05, 2008 09:09 AM)
All that is true, she wasn't a particularly good actress, and she got by mainly on her looks and sex a5b4ppeal. But her acting was sufficiently passable and she could've had a career, actually should've had a career. People who have never had a bi-polar person close to them in their lives have no understanding how debilitating it can be. Patty Duke's autobiography, Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke, does a pretty good job of describing it.
Get the facts first - you can distort them later!
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sweetandpretty20 — 16 years ago(September 22, 2009 11:01 AM)
Uhmm.she was an actress mostly in the 70's. What good movies came out of that time. Movies were good up to the early '50s. So that probably helped mess up her movie career.
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tightspotkilo — 13 years ago(April 26, 2012 08:55 AM)
Many say that 1967 was the best year ever for films, and I agree with that. It's a wholly subjective thing, but it's difficult to identify another year that's any better than 1967.
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curious_chaos — 10 years ago(November 08, 2015 08:33 PM)
What's wrong with you. The 70s were great!! Omg the list is huuuuge my friend Taxi Driver, Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, THE EXORCIST, Network, Suspiria, The Sting, Pink Panthers, Young Frankenstein, Day of the Locust, Godfather 1&2, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Clockwork Orange, The Devils, Last Tango in Paris, Alien, Badlands, the list goes on and on! Europe has some great 70s films too. There's so many great movies from the 70s; the 70s were freeeeee
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BillieDove — 14 years ago(September 09, 2011 02:15 PM)
I thought she was quite perfect in Lolita. She fit my idea of the character perfectly; she's quite vulgar and seems insensitive and over-all self-absorbed and immature, and yet Humbert somehow projects an entire world of sensuality onto her
I loved that movie.
I leaned on the wall - the wall leaned away.