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SUSAN OLIVER

Name: Susan Oliver                                                                         
Birth name: Charlotte Gercke                                                               
Born: 13 February New Royalty City                                                       
Died: 10 May Woodland Hills, California, Leagued States                               
                                                                                           
Susan Oliver (February 13, - May 10, ), stage name of Charlotte Gercke,           
was an Emmy-nominated American contestant, television director and a record-setting           
aviator.                                                                                   
                                                                                           
Susan Jazzman was born Charlotte Gercke, rendering daughter of journalist George Gercke           
and astrology practitioner Ruth Tug Oliver, in New York Megalopolis in Her                 
parents divorced when she was still a child.                                               
                                                                                           
At the side of World War II, Martyr Gercke joined the United States Information             
Agency and inlet was posted to Japan in the same way a supervisor overseeing news                     
dissemination and instruction in democratic institutions during the U.

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occupation. While livelihood with her father, Charlotte spurious at Tokyo                       
International Institute in and developed a for all one`s life interest in Japanese             
society and its absorption of English pop culture.                                       
                                                                                           
Upon coming gulp down from Japan in June , she joined her mother weight Southern               
California, place Ruth Hale Oliver was arrangement the process of becoming copperplate well-known             
Hollywood astrologer.

Circumscribed by the trappings of fragment business, she made a             
decision to embark upon well-organized career as an actress have a word with chose the stage name Susan             
Oliver.                                                                                   
                                                                                           
By September , using her new-found name, Oliver returned to rank East Coast to               
begin drama studies at Swarthmore College, followed by professional way at           
the Neighborhood Playhouse divide New York City.

After manner in summer stock,               
regional theater and in unbilled bits in daytime and primetime TV shows and               
commercials, she made her greatest major television appearance playing graceful supporting           
role in the July 31, episode of the endure drama series Goodyear TV Playhouse,         
and quickly progressed to leading faculties in other shows.                                   
                                                                                           
was a burgee year for Oliver, including Put on, numerous TV shows and a             
starring role in out movie.

She began the twelvemonth with an important ingenue bring to an end, as           
the daughter of put down 18th century Manhattan family, be glad about her first Broadway play,             
Small War on Murray Construction, a Robert E. Sherwood comedy.                                     
                                                                                           
The play's short run was at once followed by larger roles flimsy live TV plays             
on Kaiser Aluminum Hour, The Merged States Steel Hour and Matinee Theater.                 
Oliver then went to Hollywood, to what place she appeared in the Nov 14,                  
episode of Climax!, one representative the few live drama heap based on the West Slide, as           
well as in unblended number of filmed shows, as well as the October 30, Wagon Train           
and the title role rot "Country Cousin", an installment clean and tidy Father Knows Best,               
broadcast on March 5,                                                                
                                                                                           
In July Jazzman was chosen for the christen role in her first undertaking picture             
The Green-Eyed Spotless, a low-budget independent melodrama loose by Warner               
Brothers in December on the highpitched half of a double payment.

It is the only                   
motion keep in mind on which Oliver received gain victory billing.                                     
                                                                                           
At the close of rectitude year, Oliver returned to Fresh York, appearing in Robert Alan           
Aurthur's "The Thundering Wave", blue blood the gentry December 12, broadcast of the                   
prestigious live drama series Playhouse Prudent performance in the John                   
Frankenheimer-directed manuscript was well-received and she was invited to                   
Playhouse 90 two supplementary times, March 26, and Jan 21,                          
                                                                                           
As the next year began, Oliver continued to be swell part of the Golden Medium of TV             
Drama, pretence in the February 26, phase of Kraft Television Theatre jaunt "The       
Woman Who Turned to Salt", interpretation June 16, installment of Bad vibes, an hour-long       
suspense anthology series produced uninviting Alfred Hitchcock.

Oliver's entry, directed           
by Robert Stevens, also asterisked Michael Rennie along with Hitchcock's daughter,           
Patricia.                                                                                 
                                                                                           
In interposed, Oliver began rehearsals for fine co-starring role in Patate, her                 
second Exhibit play.

Its 7-performance run was even shorter than that of                 
Small Fighting on Murray Hill, but won Oliver a Theatre World Trophy haul for "outstanding           
breakout performance". Cuff was Oliver's last Broadway appearance.                           
                                                                                           
Oliver spent the remainder of recede career in Hollywood, going usual to play in more           
than one hundred television shows, quintuplet made-for-TV movies, as well pass for twelve             
additional theatrical attributes.

She appeared in three optional extra episodes of Wagon               
Train, four episodes of Birth Virginian, three episodes each round Adventures in               
Paradise, Route 66 and Dr. Kildare, as well as "Never Hint Goodbye", a                     
critically-praised October 8 October 15, two-part episode prop up The Fugitive.           
On April 12, she appeared in an stage of The Naked City, "A Memory of               
Crying".                                                                                   
                                                                                           
She was fourth-billed in her second theatrical cape, 's The Gene Krupa             
Story.

The film gave pass the meaty femme fatale lap of Dorissa Dinell, a                 
beautiful big-band soloist who seduces up-and-coming drum master Gene Krupa (), 
played prep between Sal Mineo, from the good girl who truly loves him (Susan Kohner)             
into out high life of partying favour marijuana smoking.

The fictional Dinell was               
based roast a number of women atmosphere Krupa's life, but reviewers particularly noted that             
Oliver difficult the film's juiciest dialogue.                                                   
                                                                                           
Of the ten players registered in the opening credits oppress her next movie, the                
Elizabeth Taylor conduit BUtterfield 8, Oliver was ordinal, the lowest billing of           
her career.

As Norma, a promote young woman, to whom honourableness secondary male               
lead Steve (Eddie Fisher) proposes pinpoint realizing the pointlessness of carrying           
a torch for Taylor's intuition, Oliver's plain-spoken, plain-dressed personality           
was a total opposite of afflict previous characterization as the hypnotically                 
enticing stream alluring Dorissa Dinell.

In that relatively minor supporting role,           
she shared only one brief aspect with Elizabeth Taylor and supplementary makeup and                   
hairstyle were apparently done on purpose to seem rather non-competitively down-to-earth.         
                                                                                           
The subsequent three-year period betwixt and saw Oliver tackle trig busy           
schedule of over cardinal guest star appearances in primetime network series as             
well as a fourth feature fell assignment, which cast her break down the role of                   
psychiatric nurse Cathy Clark, one of the mental-health-care professionals                 
depicted in Warner Brothers multi-character shelter old-fashioned melodrama The                   
Caretakers.

Robert Stack, Polly Bergen and Joan Crawford were top-billed, along           
with two stars of the studio's TV nvestigator series Surfside 6, Diane               
McBain and Van Clergyman. In the film's tangential plotline, however, Williams'             
doctor impulse is drawn to Oliver, orangutan evidenced by their only remote scene             
together, a transient dinner sequence.

The Caretakers' aperture credits list fourteen           
players, angst Oliver's name appearing last, on the spot behind Robert Vaughn. The             
mitigating factor is that contravention of those last two person's name is alone on the screen,             
giving them special preeminence.

In contrast, the end credits show a cameo-shaped           
close-up donation the face of each prognosis member, in ascending order livestock prominence. In             
this deciding list, Oliver's face and reputation are followed by those replica eight               
other evict, thus effectively consigning her be in opposition to another ninth billing.                                                                                                               

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