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Peters transferred to Hollywood High School during her senior year, and began taking drama classes in which she opted to enroll in place of cooking courses: "I took a drama course instead of a cooking course because I thought it was easier," Peters said. She was an avid swimmer and tennis player, and also grew up riding horses her talent as an equestrian allowed her to earn additional income by breaking and showing other people's horses. "We were poor but we managed, and we had fun," Peters recalled of her upbringing. Peters' mother supported herself and her two children by working in a dress shop and managing an apartment building. During her years in high school, she worked after hours in a Los Angeles department store, earning money to help support her mother and brother. Peters was educated at Laird Hall School for Girls, the LaRue School in Azusa, California, and Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy in Los Angeles. In 1928, her father was killed in a car accident in Portland, after which the family relocated to Seattle, Washington, and later to Los Angeles to live with Peters' maternal French-born grandmother, Maria Patteneaude, a dermatologist. Shortly after her birth, the Carnahan family moved to Portland, Oregon. Peters had one younger brother, Robert Jr., born in 1923.
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Her father was a civil engineer of Irish descent, while her mother was of French descent, and a grand-niece of Robert E. Peters was born Suzanne Carnahan on July 3, 1921, in Spokane, Washington, the elder of two children born to Robert and Abby Carnahan. She died of ensuing health complications that year at age 31. In late 1952, she began starving herself, which combined with her paralysis led to chronic kidney infections and pneumonia. By 1952, however, Peters had had clinical depression for several years due to the dissolution of her marriage and her limited career options. She followed this with a production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street, in which she portrayed physically disabled poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Peters then transitioned to theater, appearing as Laura Wingfield in a critically acclaimed 1949 production of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, which was slightly altered to allow Peters to perform in a wheelchair. She returned to film, portraying a villainess who used a wheelchair in The Sign of the Ram (1948).
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On New Year's Day 1945, Peters' spinal cord was damaged from an accidental gunshot wound, leaving her permanently paraplegic. Peters went on to appear as the lead in numerous films for MGM, including roles in the romantic comedy Young Ideas (1943), and several war films: Assignment in Brittany (1943), Song of Russia (1944), and Keep Your Powder Dry (1945). The same year, she had a featured role in the Mervyn LeRoy-directed drama Random Harvest, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and established her as a serious dramatic performer.
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In 1942, Peters appeared in a supporting role in Tish, which resulted in her signing a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). in 1942, the film noir The Big Shot opposite Humphrey Bogart and Richard Travis after its release, Warner opted not to renew her contract. She appeared in numerous bit parts before earning a minor supporting role in Santa Fe Trail (1940). Upon graduating from Hollywood High School, she studied acting with Austrian theater director Max Reinhardt, and signed a contract with Warner Bros.
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Though she began her career in uncredited and ingénue roles, she would establish herself as a serious dramatic actress in the mid-1940s.īorn in Spokane, Washington, Peters was raised by her widowed mother in Portland, Oregon, and, later, Los Angeles. Susan Peters (born Suzanne Carnahan J– October 23, 1952) was an American actress who appeared in more than twenty films over the course of her decade-long career.