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Sue Casey

Sue Casey

While other actresses would have long given up a stalled career out of pure frustration after decades of mostly uncredited extra/bit parts and little reward, perennial starlet Sue Casey somehow found the stamina to maintain for six decades! In films from 1946, the voluptuous brunette, at most, became a campy vixen in a few 1960s "drive-in" bombs, yet has always held a remarkably appreciative outlook as to how things turned out. Successfully establishing herself as a wholesome commercial actress, she pitched everything from cereal to automobiles in over 200 assignments. Light TV guest parts also came her way in episodes of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1957), The Baileys of Balboa (1964), The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961), The Farmer's Daughter (1963), The Beverly Hillbillies (1962) and Family Affair (1966), among others. As for the big screen, nothing changed. Obscure bit/extra parts continued with Bells Are Ringing (1960), The Ladies Man (1961), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), A New Kind of Love (1963) and The Carpetbaggers (1964). Finally, after nearly two decades of pursuing her dream in Hollywood, Casey nabbed a leading role! As bad girl "Vicky Lindsay" in what is arguably one of film's biggest "turkeys" of all time, The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965), she attained a notoriety that led to minor cult status. The film had a non-existent budget and was received poorly in every way, shape and form upon its initial release. Casey even had to do her own hair and makeup and was forced to pick out her vixen character's clothes from her own closet. The actors were never paid until the movie was sold years later to TV (retitled as "Monster from the Surf") and that was a mere pittance. Over the years, however, the movie has reportedly gained a cult following. Two other easily dismissed co-starring roles in unmemorable campy films followed. She played a hillbilly mom in the fugitive drama Swamp Country (1966) (which starred pearly-toothed pre-Carol Burnett hunk Lyle Waggoner) and a manipulative mom and art forger in Catalina Caper (1967) (which starred former Disney star Tommy Kirk after his fall from studio grace, and (again) Lyle Waggoner). In later years, she developed a successful real estate business. She found acting work (often without an agent) intermittently on film and TV. Featured in a couple of higher-scaled movie musicals -- as a lady attendant to Vanessa Redgrave's Queen Guinevere in Camelot (1967) and as one of John Mitchum's two wives in Paint Your Wagon (1969) -- her final film resume would add such films as The Main Event (1979), Evilspeak (1981), Whitesnake: Live... in the Still of the Night (2005) and A Very Brady Sequel (1996). In American Beauty (1999), an Oscar winner for "Best Picture" and "Best Actor", lead actress Annette Bening (a Best Actress nominee for the role), plays a desperate realtor trying to sell Casey's well-to-do character a house.

Personal information

Birthday

1926-04-08

Birth Place

Los Angeles, California, USA

Movies and TV shows :

A New Kind of Love

A New Kind of Love

1963

6.2

Movie
A Very Brady Sequel

A Very Brady Sequel

1996

5.8

Movie
American Beauty

American Beauty

1999

8.0

Movie
An American in Paris

An American in Paris

1951

7.0

Movie
Blondie's Big Deal

Blondie's Big Deal

1949

6.2

Movie
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's

1961

7.7

Movie
Camelot

Camelot

1967

6.2

Movie
Catalina Caper

Catalina Caper

1967

2.3

Movie
Cattle Town

Cattle Town

1952

6.7

Movie
poster

Diagnosis: Murder

1993

7.1

TV
Eight Iron Men

Eight Iron Men

1952

6.8

Movie
Evilspeak

Evilspeak

1981

5.3

Movie
For Heaven's Sake

For Heaven's Sake

1950

6.9

Movie
Holiday in Mexico

Holiday in Mexico

1946

6.2

Movie
Hysterical

Hysterical

1982

5.0

Movie
It's a Great Feeling

It's a Great Feeling

1949

5.9

Movie
Paint Your Wagon

Paint Your Wagon

1969

6.4

Movie
Rear Window

Rear Window

1954

8.4

Movie
Secrets of Monte Carlo

Secrets of Monte Carlo

1951

0.0

Movie
Swamp Country

Swamp Country

1966

0.0

Movie
Terror in the Sky

Terror in the Sky

1971

6.8

Movie
The Beach Girls and the Monster

The Beach Girls and the Monster

1965

3.5

Movie
poster

The Beverly Hillbillies

1962

6.9

TV
poster

The Dick Van Dyke Show

1961

7.4

TV
The Flame and the Arrow

The Flame and the Arrow

1950

6.3

Movie
The Great Sinner

The Great Sinner

1949

6.7

Movie
The Ladies Man

The Ladies Man

1961

6.3

Movie
The Las Vegas Story

The Las Vegas Story

1952

5.8

Movie
poster

The Lucy Show

1962

7.1

TV
poster

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

1957

8.5

TV
The Main Event

The Main Event

1979

5.2

Movie
The Merry Widow

The Merry Widow

1952

5.8

Movie
The Scarf

The Scarf

1951

5.5

Movie
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

1947

6.7

Movie
We're Not Married!

We're Not Married!

1952

5.9

Movie
Words and Music

Words and Music

1948

5.7

Movie