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Timothy
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 Said to her physician-I’m getting awfully tired. I think it would be better if I did die. One of the most important benefits is it keeps the port open, ... It`s something that keeps the doors open.
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This offense was too serious to take a chance that he might not be rehabilitated in the juvenile system, then at age 21 leave this court without any options,
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We both said `We knew it,`
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(Jeane) called us Sunday night because she knew they probably would be without power. They`ve been through this before so they knew what to expect.
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These are illegal and racist restrictions, and there`s no reason we should perpetuate something that was outlawed many years ago, ... Having to remove it one property at a time didn`t make sense to me.
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I made a deal with myself that after three years, if I hadn`t made good, I`d become a stenographer, a secretary, or try some other profession...Hollywood is no place for a girl who doesn`t make good.
The best thing that ever happened to me was being a failure during my first two years on the screen. That gave me a sense of proportion and balance. Once or twice, I was almost a success, but not quite. Naturally, I was terribly hurt at the time. But I came to realize that there isn`t much difference between success and failure. Opportunity has a lot to do with it.
I do not believe that I shall ever be able to walk. It would the most wonderful gift God and life could give, but I do not expect it. I think invalids make a terrible mistake building their lives around a hope which doctors tell them cannot be realized except by a miracle. If you keep waiting for that miracle to happen in the future, how can you possibly adjust your life around your handicap? -- SR, in a 1947 magazine article
Trivia
In 1949, opened at Hollywood’s Ivar Theatre in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. She says she would never have had the guts to go on stage if she had not been paralyzed. She receives a spontaneous standing ovation, led by Richard Quine; it takes her by surprise.
Actor Charles Bickford brought to her attention a novel he has just read, Sign of the Ram, by Margaret Ferguson. The leading character is a paralyzed woman who wrecks her family by domination and murder. She discusses the novel with her agent, Frank Orsatti, who in turn interests producer-director Irving Cummings. A deal is set with Columbia Studios. Columbia players such as Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, Larry Parks, Cornel Wilde, Ginger Rogers and co-stars Alexander Knox and Peggy Ann Garner greet her on her first day on the set. She knows people will come to see how she looks in a wheelchair, but if they leave thinking she’s an actress, she’ll be satisfied. The production is grueling on her. She has to have her husband or her aunt, Mary Carnahan, a trained nurse, with her throughout filming.
The producer-director team of Joe Pasternack and Henry Koster want her for The Unfinished Dance, a story about a famous ballerina who suffers a spinal injury. She rejected the idea, and the role goes to Karin Booth. She does not want to trade on her handicap by playing crippled girls; she breaks her MGM contract.
Radio offers begin poured in after her accident. She’s scared of facing the audience in a wheelchair; her hand shook so that she can barely hold her script. She still thinks she will walk again and scoffed at the doctors who tell her otherwise. She surprised them by taking a few steps.
Expressed an interest in doing the story of pop singer Connee Boswell and the life of Nellie Revell, a newspaper woman who continued her career even when bedridden, but both projects fell through.
Because of her accident, MGM paid all of her hospital bills and kept her on a $100 weekly salary for an indefinite period; her career is stymied since future roles will be limited
Was supposed to play the lead in the movie Gentle Annie but was replaced by Donna Reed because of a miscarriage.
Tested for a role in One Foot in Heaven, Sergeant York and King`s Row.
She gaves herself three years to make good. If she didn’t make it as an actress by then, she figured that at least she will have earned enough to pay for medical school.
Jack L. Warner suggests she change her name to Sharon O’Keefe, a name she hated; she remaind Suzanne Carnahan a while longer.
When she graduated from Hollywood High. Fellow classmates are Jason Robards, Jr., Sheila Ryan, Dorothy Morris, and Lois Ransom
In the late 1930`s, holds part-time jobs during summer vacations as an elevator operator and package wrapper at Roos Brothers Department Store. She planned to become a doctor.
An excellent athlete, she excels at swimming and tennis. Rides horseback so well that by age 14, she starts earning money by breaking and showing other people’s horses.
Her father is killed in an auto accident, something she never recovers from.
She and her husband, Richard Quine, adopted a son named Timothy.
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In 2001, a play was produced at the Homegrown Theatre on Broadway entitled "Random Harvest," the story of a playwright who obsesses over two tragic figures who have entered his life. One is Susan Peters. Random Harvest (1942) was Susan's Academy Award nominated movie that was made back in 1942.
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She was paralyzed in a hunting accident on January 1, 1945.
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Married actor Richard Quine at the Westwood Community Church in Los Angeles in November of 1943. Cesar Romero was Quine`s "best man".
Buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Raised in Los Angeles, she attended various schools such as Flintridge, Sacred Heart and La Rue School for Girls.
Initially was interested in becoming a doctor or pursuing a career involving her favorite subjects, chemistry and biology.
Following her hunting accident Susan learned how to drive a car net,her While.
In early 1952, the wheelchair-bound actress became engaged to Army Colonel Robert Clark but their plans to marry were called off, prompted by her failing health.
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