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is born in Palm Springs, California / Wenatchee, Washington, of Swedish-Norwegian descent, not half-Indian
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moves with her family to Palm Springs, where she acts in high school plays and later with the Palm Springs Playhouse
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spends her summers in Washington and winters in Southern California
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after high school she works for a telephone company in Palm Springs
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her brother marries the sister of actress Noreen Nash
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is spotted by a talent scout on a Hawaiian beach while vacationing with a girlfriend and poses for Playboy
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| 64 |
meets AIP founder James H. Nicholson while filming Ride the Wild Surf
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| 64 |
is groomed for stardom by AIP; they include her in their Starburst of Youth program
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| 64 |
is nominated for Most Promising New Star by Photoplay, but loses out to Barbara Parkins
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| 64 |
is voted a Hollywood Deb Star
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| Thanksgiving 64 |
spends the holiday with her War-Gods of the Deep director, Jacques Torneur, at the Carlton
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| November 64 |
has a Christmas tree in her hotel room while still filming War-Gods of the Deep
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| December 64 |
Nicholson is ordered to pay his estranged wife, Sylvia, $1,250 per month temporary support. The couple has three daughters and charges each other with adultery. Mrs. Nicholson names Susan as correspondent; Mr. Nicholson charges his wife with infidelities with five men. Nicholson is 48; Sylvia is 42; Susan is 22.
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| November 65 |
she and Nicholson tell reporters at the Savoy hotel in London that they plan to marry. She is in England to promote Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine.
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| 65 |
marries Nicholson. He is 24 years her senior.
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due to Nicholson's divorcing his first wife, his lawyer, Sam Arkoff, gains controlling interest in AIP
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spends a lot of her social life visiting Europe with her husband and talking about films
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| 65 |
is off to Rome for the filming of Planet of the Vampires opposite Barry Sullivan, but is replaced by Norma Bengell before production starts
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her son is born
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| 72 |
during the production of The Legend of Hell House, her husband is diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor
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| 10 December 72 |
becomes the widow of Nicholson
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gets involved in a year-long lawsuit with the two men in charge of AIP
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| 81 |
her "Is This a Disco or a Honky Tonk" makes it to the Top 100
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| 81 |
marries Roy M. Hofheinz, a Harvard professor and son of the late Judge Roy Hofheinz, Texas entrepreneur and builder of the Astrodome
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| Mid-80s |
takes up ice skating with a precision team
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resides in Palm Springs, California
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is awarded a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars
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Sources:
www.IMDb.com, "Susan Hart" in Attack of the Monster Movie Makers by Tom Weaver, Film Fatales by Tom Lisanti and Louis Paul, Starlet by Kim Holston, Drive-In Dream Girls by Tom Lisanti, The News, The Lowell Sun |
Recommended Books:
Attack of the Monster Movie Makers by Tom Weaver
Film Fatales by Tom Lisanti and Louis Paul
Starlet by Kim Holston
Drive-In Dream Girls by Tom Lisanti
The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool by Chris Strodder |
Links:
Filmography
!WOm!WAm!: Susan Hart |
