Acting

Susan Peters

Born July 3, 1921 · Spokane, Washington, USA

Died October 23, 1952 · aged 31

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Susan Peters (born Suzanne Carnahan; July 3, 1921 – October 23, 1952) was an American film, stage, and television actress who appeared in over twenty films over the course of her decade-long career. In 1942, the year she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Peters had a featured role in the Mervyn LeRoy-directed drama Random Harvest. That role e…

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The Strawberry Blonde

The Strawberry Blonde · 1941

The Strawberry Blonde

MovieRomanceComedy

Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.

Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail · 1940

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.

Random Harvest

Random Harvest · 1942

MovieRomanceDrama

Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.

Susan and God

Susan and God · 1940

MovieComedyDrama

A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

Twenty Years After

Twenty Years After · 1944

Twenty Years After

MovieDocumentary

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Money and the Woman

Money and the Woman · 1940

Money and the Woman

MovieCrimeDrama

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

Young Ideas

Young Ideas · 1943

A widowed lecturer's two grown children try to break up what they believe is her inappropriate romance with a staid college professor.

The Big Shot

The Big Shot · 1942

MovieCrimeDrama

Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.

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The Strawberry Blonde

The Strawberry Blonde · 1941

The Strawberry Blonde

MovieRomanceComedy

Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.

Girl (uncredited)

Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail · 1940

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.

Charlotte

Random Harvest

Random Harvest · 1942

MovieRomanceDrama

Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.

Kitty

Susan and God

Susan and God · 1940

MovieComedyDrama

A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

Party Guest (uncredited)

Twenty Years After

Twenty Years After · 1944

Twenty Years After

MovieDocumentary

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

(archive footage)

Money and the Woman

Money and the Woman · 1940

Money and the Woman

MovieCrimeDrama

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

Depositor (uncredited)

Young Ideas

Young Ideas · 1943

A widowed lecturer's two grown children try to break up what they believe is her inappropriate romance with a staid college professor.

Susan Evans

The Big Shot

The Big Shot · 1942

MovieCrimeDrama

Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.

Ruth Carter

Here Comes Happiness

Here Comes Happiness · 1941

Here Comes Happiness

MovieComedyRomance

Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man. Chet observes a series of suspicious, clandestine meetings with her rich father and his chauffeur which makes him think she is stringing along a "Sugar Daddy" on the side. Financial trickery and sequences of misunderstandings and coincidences culminate with a wedding that turns out much differently than planned.

Miss Brown (uncredited)

Assignment in Brittany

Assignment in Brittany · 1943

Assignment in Brittany

A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.

Anne Pinot

Keep Your Powder Dry

Keep Your Powder Dry · 1945

Keep Your Powder Dry

A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.

Ann Darrison

Always a Bride

Always a Bride · 1940

A young man wants to marry his sweetheart, but her parents will agree to their wedding only on one condition: he must run for mayor--and win. Comedy.

Girl

The Sign of the Ram

The Sign of the Ram · 1948

The Sign of the Ram

MovieDramaThriller

A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.

Leah St. Aubyn

Song of Russia

Song of Russia · 1944

MovieDramaMusic

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Along the way, they see happy, healthy, smiling, free Soviet citizens, blissfully living the Communist dream. This bliss is destroyed by the German invasion.

Nadya Stepanova

Andy Hardy's Double Life

Andy Hardy's Double Life · 1942

Andy Hardy's Double Life

MovieComedyFamily

Andy is about to head off to college but he's got a few things to take care of before leaving. For starters, he must try and sell his junk car for $20 to pay for a bill and he must convince his father not to go with him to college. Worst of all is that Polly wants to make up but her best friend decides to give Andy a test.

Sue

Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant

Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant · 1942

Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant

MovieComedyDrama

The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.

Mrs. Howard Allwinn Young

Three Sons o' Guns

Three Sons o' Guns · 1941

Three Sons o' Guns

MovieRomanceComedy

Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.

Mary Tyler

Scattergood Pulls the Strings

Scattergood Pulls the Strings · 1941

Scattergood Pulls the Strings

Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist who is trying to invent a color television but is being opposed by his girlfriend's father, who wants the girl to marry a pharmacist like himself instead of some crazy inventor.

Ruth Savage

Tish

MovieDramaComedy

In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.

Cora Edwards Bowser

The Huntress

The Huntress · 2000

SeriesDramaCrime

After a car bomb kills a bounty hunter, his widow and his daughter take up the family business.