![]() ![]() While he was lecturing on Stanislavsky, his daughter was appearing in schlocky pictures about black magic such as The Manitou (1978). They were divorced six months later, after a great deal of drug-taking: at one stage they moved out of their Beverly Hills home in the middle of the night, convinced it was haunted by an old woman.įrom then on, Strasberg's film career was not much to write home to her famous father about. In the same year she married actor Christopher Jones, with whom she co-starred in Chubasco, a film about the San Diego fishing industry. In the late sixties, Strasberg was swept along by the zeitgeist, appearing in beads and miniskirt as a flower child in Roger Corman's The Trip (1967), shot 'in psychedelic colour', and in Richard Rush's Psych-out (1968). She was better cast in two British pictures - as a young woman in a wheelchair being driven mad in the Hammer thriller Taste of Fear (1961) and as Dirk Bogarde's lover in The High Bright Sun (1965). In Gillo Pontecorvo's multi-national drama Kapo (1960), Strasberg was a prison guard (born Jewish but having taken on the identity of a dead political prisoner) in a Nazi concentration camp, who becomes corrupted by the job. As the struggling young actress Eva Lovelace, who finally triumphs on Broadway, Strasberg, who managed to get in a mention of the Actors Studio, later complained that she was inhibited by the constant presence of her mother on the set. However, her limitations as an actress were exposed in her first leading role, in Sidney Lumet's 1958 Stage Struck. The following year, she was successfully back on Broadway in Jean Anouilh's wistful Time Remembered with Richard Burton. In her second film, Joshua Logan's Picnic (1956), Strasberg was funny and touching as the beautiful Kim Novak's brainy, ugly-duckling sister (she has a brace and wears glasses) who falls for William Holden, as the drifter whose arrival upsets a small town. ![]() In it, she managed to portray both the brattish and girlish side of Anne, and moved audiences with the penultimate line: 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.' She made her stage debut off-Broadway aged 14, and three years later, on the strength of a brilliant audition for director Garson Kanin, she was offered the role of Anne Frank in the Pulitzer prize-winning play. From a very young age, there was no doubt that Susan would become an actress, although she never attended her father's renowned school. ![]()
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