Susan Cabot

Susan Cabot ( Harriet Shapiro actually, born July 9, 1927 in Boston, † December 10, 1986 in Encino ) was an American actress.

Cabot, scion of a Jewish family, spent her restless childhood and youth in eight nursing homes. Most recently, she came so to New York where she worked first as an illustrator. Only 17, she married for the first time.

Acting Career

In 1947 she received after singing and drama courses, their first film roles, and occurred in television until she was discovered by scouts of the Columbia studios and contracted. After a short time she moved, dissatisfied with their offers, for Universal. There it was used in the following years, especially in B- Westerns, causing her to solve disappointed their contract.

Back in New York she played theater again until 1957 returned to the film business - especially in movies of Roger Corman, who also staged their last ( and best known ) film, The Wasp Woman (1959).

Private life

At that time, she was accused of having an affair with King Hussein of Jordan, which ended when he learned of her Jewish origins. 1964 brought even only 1.57 m tall, a dwarf son into the world; In 1968, she married a second time, the actor Michael Roman. The marriage was at the beginning of the 1980s in the fractures after Cabot increasingly developed psychological problems.

Since 1975, Cabot lived with her son in Encino; both had a very close relationship, which ended tragically in 1986 when Cabot was slain by him with a weight lifter rod in her sleep. This represented the first murder as a robbery is, but was convicted and sentenced. For days it was years of abuse with growth hormones that led both sides to psychosis.

Filmography (selection)

External links and sources

• Susan Cabot at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Cabot at Brian 's Drive -In Theater
• Biography