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Sue Casey Profile
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| (Suzanne Marguerite Philips) |
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| 8 April 26 | is born in Los Angeles, California to Burke and Mildred Philips (nee Hansen) |
| ? | graduates from Fairfax High School |
| 43 | marries Howard Jerome Casey, who later served in World War II |
| October 43 | her daughter Colleen is born |
| ? | performs at USO Camp Shows |
| ? | divorces Casey |
| 11 August 46 | attends the birthday of Lou Kerner at Ciro's |
| 24 October 46 | performs with vocalist Judy Johnson on KECA's Take it From There |
| 31 October 46 | columnist Virginia MacPherson reports that "her name is Sue Casey, and she's a red-headed vision of 20 years. She's never seen the nation's capital. And we'll guarantee the capital has never seen anything like her." |
| March 47 | marries Jack Hoffman and plans to retire and become a housewife |
| ? | divorces Hoffman |
| 13 April 50 | is signed for The Dungeon at the Motion Picture Center studio, where she will play a receptionist. The production will be canceled. |
| 12 August 50 | columnist Dorothy Manners reports that "Sue Casey, M-G-M actress, and Johnny Durant, film cutter on the same lot, will be married at the Santa Barbara Mission Sunday. She just finished An American in Paris." |
| ? | marries Johnny Durant |
| 25 May 52 | raises funds at the 3rd Annual Charity Day BBQ |
| February 53 | her son John Joseph is born |
| August 53 | is crowned T-Venus by the National Broadcasting Company |
| November 53 | is crowned "The Most Beautiful Extra in Pictures" by Raoul Walsh |
| 27 November 53 | stars in the stage production of Uncle Charley's Flying Saucer at the Studio Theater |
| 18 December 53 | columnist Edwin Schallert reports that "Jonni Paris and Sue Casey have joined Stephanie Griffin as sun bathers in the Alfred Hitchcock production Rear Window at Paramount." |
| August 55 | her son Christopher Kent is born |
| January 57 | her daughter Diane Marie is born |
| 26 February 61 | is a cigarette girl at the 22nd consecutive all-star program Charity Ball, hosted by Joe Pasternak |
| 23 February 63 | models gowns at the Mardi Gras Fashion Luncheon |
| 17 September 65 | columnist Nadine M. Edwards reports that "Sue Casey is the beautiful young stepmother whose emotional appetites resemble those of the Greek Phaedra." |
| ? | says of her part in American Beauty (1999) being deleted, "Nobody told me. I brought my son to the premiere and felt so foolish when I realized they deleted our scene" |
| 21 February 19 | dies in Los Angeles, California |
| Sources: Los Angeles Times, Valley Times, Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, The Times Standard, Christopher Durant, Diane Durant, Sylvia Lewis, Crystal Salvage, Ancestry.com | |
| Recommended Books: Drive-In Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties by Tom Lisaniti and Carole Wells Pageantry by Samuel Clemens | |
| Links: Filmography Obituary Interview with Sue Casey by Scott Feinberg | |