Sue Casey

Sue Casey

While other actresses would have long given up a stalled career out of pure frustration after decades of mostly uncredited extra/bit parts and little reward, perennial starlet Sue Casey somehow found the stamina to maintain for six decades! In films from 1946, the voluptuous brunette, at most, became a campy vixen in a few 1960s "drive-in" bombs, yet has always held a remarkably appreciative outlook as to how things turned out. Successfully establishing herself as a wholesome commercial actress, she pitched everything from cereal to automobiles in over 200 assignments. Light TV guest parts also came her way in episodes of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1957), The Baileys of Balboa (1964), The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961), The Farmer's Daughter (1963), The Beverly Hillbillies (1962) and Family Affair (1966), among others. As for the big screen, nothing changed. Obscure bit/extra parts continued with Bells Are Ringing (1960), The Ladies Man (1961), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), A New Kind of Love (1963) and The Carpetbaggers (1964). Finally, after nearly two decades of pursuing her dream in Hollywood, Casey nabbed a leading role! As bad girl "Vicky Lindsay" in what is arguably one of film's biggest "turkeys" of all time, The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965), she attained a notoriety that led to minor cult status. The film had a non-existent budget and was received poorly in every way, shape and form upon its initial release. Casey even had to do her own hair and makeup and was forced to pick out her vixen character's clothes from her own closet. The actors were never paid until the movie was sold years later to TV (retitled as "Monster from the Surf") and that was a mere pittance. Over the years, however, the movie has reportedly gained a cult following. Two other easily dismissed co-starring roles in unmemorable campy films followed. She played a hillbilly mom in the fugitive drama Swamp Country (1966) (which starred pearly-toothed pre-Carol Burnett hunk Lyle Waggoner) and a manipulative mom and art forger in Catalina Caper (1967) (which starred former Disney star Tommy Kirk after his fall from studio grace, and (again) Lyle Waggoner). In later years, she developed a successful real estate business. She found acting work (often without an agent) intermittently on film and TV. Featured in a couple of higher-scaled movie musicals -- as a lady attendant to Vanessa Redgrave's Queen Guinevere in Camelot (1967) and as one of John Mitchum's two wives in Paint Your Wagon (1969) -- her final film resume would add such films as The Main Event (1979), Evilspeak (1981), Whitesnake: Live... in the Still of the Night (2005) and A Very Brady Sequel (1996). In American Beauty (1999), an Oscar winner for "Best Picture" and "Best Actor", lead actress Annette Bening (a Best Actress nominee for the role), plays a desperate realtor trying to sell Casey's well-to-do character a house.

  • Title: Sue Casey
  • Popularity: 2.295
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1926-04-08
  • Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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Sue Casey Movies

  • 1969
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    Paint Your Wagon

    Paint Your Wagon

    6.381 1969 HD

    A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a...

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  • 1961
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    Breakfast at Tiffany's

    Breakfast at Tiffany's

    7.664 1961 HD

    Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her...

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  • 1949
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    It's a Great Feeling

    It's a Great Feeling

    5.9 1949 HD

    A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and...

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  • 1951
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    The Scarf

    The Scarf

    5.5 1951 HD

    A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was...

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  • 1951
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    Secrets of Monte Carlo

    Secrets of Monte Carlo

    1 1951 HD

    A U.S. businessman abroad is the patsy for the theft of a rajah's jewels.

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  • 1961
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    The Ladies Man

    The Ladies Man

    6.3 1961 HD

    After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which...

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  • 1965
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    The Beach Girls and the Monster

    The Beach Girls and the Monster

    3.55 1965 HD

    A young girl is killed at the beach in Malibu. Professor Otto Lindsay suspects that it is some form of mutated fish. However, his son Richard, who...

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  • 1952
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    We're Not Married!

    We're Not Married!

    5.9 1952 HD

    A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally...

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  • 1950
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    For Heaven's Sake

    For Heaven's Sake

    6.9 1950 HD

    An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born.

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  • 1952
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    Eight Iron Men

    Eight Iron Men

    6.8 1952 HD

    During the World War II in Italy, Sergeant Joe Mooney is leading his small squad on the front-lines but is ordered to avoid rescuing a soldier...

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  • 1952
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    Cattle Town

    Cattle Town

    6.7 1952 HD

    The governor of Texas sends a cowboy to keep the peace between ranchers and a land baron.

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  • 1946
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    Holiday in Mexico

    Holiday in Mexico

    6.2 1946 HD

    Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Evans, believes that she is no longer a young...

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  • 1948
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    Words and Music

    Words and Music

    5.7 1948 HD

    Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting,...

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  • 1947
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    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    6.7 1947 HD

    Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream...

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  • 1952
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    The Las Vegas Story

    The Las Vegas Story

    5.8 1952 HD

    When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.

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  • 1949
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    Blondie's Big Deal

    Blondie's Big Deal

    6.2 1949 HD

    Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he can give it to his boss Radcliffe. To show off...

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  • 1999
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    American Beauty

    American Beauty

    8.014 1999 HD

    Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his...

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  • 1951
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    An American in Paris

    An American in Paris

    7 1951 HD

    Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist...

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  • 1963
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    A New Kind of Love

    A New Kind of Love

    6.183 1963 HD

    A down-and-out reporter and a fashion designer fall in love in Paris.

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  • 1979
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    The Main Event

    The Main Event

    5.2 1979 HD

    A bankrupt entrepreneur attempts to recoup some of her losses by getting a washed-out boxer she picked up as a tax loss back into the ring — an...

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  • 1949
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    The Great Sinner

    The Great Sinner

    6.7 1949 HD

    A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

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  • 1966
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    Swamp Country

    Swamp Country

    1 1966 HD

    In a small southern swamp town, a local girl is found murdered. A young California man passing through town is blamed, and in fleeing the local lynch...

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  • 1967
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    Camelot

    Camelot

    6.2 1967 HD

    The plot of his illegitimate son Mordred to gain the throne, and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threatens to topple King Arthur and...

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  • 1982
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    Hysterical

    Hysterical

    5 1982 HD

    Frederic Lansing is a writer who hopes to find inspiration while vacationing in Hellview, Oregon; however, the lighthouse in which he's staying is...

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  • 1996
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    A Very Brady Sequel

    A Very Brady Sequel

    5.795 1996 HD

    A man claiming to be Carol Brady's long-lost first husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence one evening. An impostor, the man is...

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  • 1971
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    Terror in the Sky

    Terror in the Sky

    6.8 1971 HD

    On a transcontinental flight, the flight crew suffer from food poisoning and become incapacitated. Now it's up to one of the passengers to safely...

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  • 1950
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    The Flame and the Arrow

    The Flame and the Arrow

    6.3 1950 HD

    Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency...

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  • 1954
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    Rear Window

    Rear Window

    8.4 1954 HD

    A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

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  • 1967
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    Catalina Caper

    Catalina Caper

    2.3 1967 HD

    A group of swingin' teens take time out from having fun in the sun to try to foil a group of crooks searching for a stolen scroll.

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  • 1981
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    Evilspeak

    Evilspeak

    5.267 1981 HD

    Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.

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  • 1952
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    The Merry Widow

    The Merry Widow

    5.8 1952 HD

    Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a...

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  • 1993
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    Diagnosis: Murder

    Diagnosis: Murder

    7.1 1993 HD

    Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.

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  • 1962
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    The Beverly Hillbillies

    The Beverly Hillbillies

    6.9 1962 HD

    Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of...

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  • 1961
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    The Dick Van Dyke Show

    The Dick Van Dyke Show

    7.4 1961 HD

    The Dick Van Dyke Show centers around the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. The plots generally revolve around problems at...

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  • 1962
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    The Lucy Show

    The Lucy Show

    7.107 1962 HD

    The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in...

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  • 1957
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    The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

    The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

    8.545 1957 HD

    The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960, and originally served as part of...

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