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Her father was a transportation worker, and Susan lived a fairly comfortable life as a child, but the precocious little redhead had no idea of the life that awaited her. She attended public school in Brooklyn, where she graduated from a commercial high school that was intended to give students a marketable skill. She had planned on becoming a secretary, but her plans changed.

She started doing some modeling work for photographers in the NYC area. By , her beauty in full bloom, she went to Hollywood when the nationwide search was on for someone to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Margaret Mitchell 's Gone with the Wind Although she--along with several hundred other aspiring Scarletts--lost out to Vivien Leigh , Susan was to carve her own signature in Hollywood circles.

In she got a bit part in Hollywood Hotel The bit parts continued all through , with Susan playing, among other things, a coed, a telephone operator and an aspiring actress. She wasn't happy with these bit parts, but she also realized she had to "pay her dues". In she finally landed a part with substance, playing Isobel Rivers in the hit action film Beau Geste In she played Millie Perkins in the offbeat thriller Among the Living This quirky little film showed Hollywood Susan's considerable dramatic qualities for the first time.