Suzanne Alexander

Suzanne Alexander

Born: September 8, 1931
Died: September 21, 1975
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The daughter of a concert entertainer and a mother who was "Miss Canada of 1918", Canadian-born Suzanne Alexander was one of those numerous starlets who, back in the 1950s, displayed their comely figures in a couple of movies and TV series episodes without finding a worthwhile role to prove themselves. Things could have been different if she had been chosen to play Princess Aouda in Mike Todd's lavishly produced Around the World in 80 Days (1956) for which she tested. But Shirley MacLaine finally landed the part and three years later pretty Alexander vanished from the radar screens. The next time there she was heard of was in September 1975, and it was bad news : Gwendolyn Ann White (Alexander's real name) had leaped to her death from a hotel room in San Francisco. She was only 44.

Movies for Suzanne Alexander...

Title: The Mod Squad
Character: Saleslady
Released: September 24, 1968
Type: TV
The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Pete Cochren, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Linc Hayes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. The executive producers of the series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas. The iconic counter-culture police series earned six Emmy nominations, four Golden Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, one Directors Guild of America award, and four Logies. In 1997 the episode "Mother of Sorrow" was ranked #95 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
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I Married a Woman
Title: I Married a Woman
Character: Camera Girl (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.
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Title: Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Character: Brunette
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: TV
Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.
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The Garment Jungle
Title: The Garment Jungle
Character: Joanne (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.
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The Solid Gold Cadillac
Title: The Solid Gold Cadillac
Character: model (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 1956
Type: Movie
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations.
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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
Title: The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
Character: Floradora Girl (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw (Farley Granger). She marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. Inspired by true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.
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Title: Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
Character: Bebe
Released: September 1, 1955
Type: TV
The adventures of a woman who grew up in the jungle as she protects the beasts and the natives while encountering white hunters, native Africans, wild animals and slave traders. Source: imdb.com
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Son of Sinbad
Title: Son of Sinbad
Character: Harem Girl
Released: June 2, 1955
Type: Movie
Legendary pirate and adventurer Sinbad is in single-minded pursuit of two things: beautiful women and a substance called Greek Fire--an early version of gunpowder.
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Daddy Long Legs
Title: Daddy Long Legs
Character: College Girl
Released: May 5, 1955
Type: Movie
Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.
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Down Three Dark Streets
Title: Down Three Dark Streets
Character: Brenda Ralles
Released: September 2, 1954
Type: Movie
An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.
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Princess of the Nile
Title: Princess of the Nile
Character: Handmaiden
Released: July 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, forms an alliance with Prince Haidi, son of the Caliph of Bagdad. She practices her intrigues both at the court and, disguised as a dancing girl, in the market place.
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The French Line
Title: The French Line
Character: Model
Released: February 8, 1954
Type: Movie
Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.
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Flight Nurse
Title: Flight Nurse
Character: Madonna (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.
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Cat-Women of the Moon
Title: Cat-Women of the Moon
Character: Beta
Released: September 3, 1953
Type: Movie
Astronauts travel to the moon where they discover it is inhabited by attractive young women in black tights.
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The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
Title: The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
Character: Co-Ed
Released: August 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis - women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's father, even though and maybe because she says she's in dreamville, does not share her affection for Dobie. An English essay which almost revolutionizes English instruction, and Dobie's role in a chemistry lab explosion convinces Mr. Hammer he is right. Pansy is sent off broken-hearted to an Eastern school, but with the help of Happy Stella Kolawski's all-girl band, several hundred students and an enraged police force, Dobie secures Pansy's return to Grainbelt.
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Latin Lovers
Title: Latin Lovers
Character: Brazilian Girl
Released: August 12, 1953
Type: Movie
An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.
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Raiders of the Seven Seas
Title: Raiders of the Seven Seas
Character: Alida's Handmaiden
Released: May 27, 1953
Type: Movie
After staging a mutiny and commandeering his own ship, famed pirate Barbarossa (John Payne) takes hostage a spirited Spanish noblewoman named Alida (Donna Reed), intending to trade her to her fiancé, Capt. Jose Salcedo (Gerald Mohr), for a handsome ransom. But Barbarossa falls in love with Alida, who meanwhile discovers that the roguish swashbuckler is more honorable than her erstwhile betrothed.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Girl in Cab
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.