Suzanne Alexander

Acting

Suzanne Alexander

Born 1931-09-08 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The daughter of a concert entertainer and a mother who was "Miss Canada of 1918", Canadian-born Suzanne Alexander was one of those numerous starlets who, back in the 1950s, displayed their comely figures in a couple of movies and TV series episodes without finding a worthwhile role to prove themselves. Things could have been different if she had been chosen to play Princess Aouda in Mike Todd's lavishly produced Around the World in 80 Days (1956) for which she tested. But Shirley MacLaine finally landed the part and three years later pretty Alexander vanished from the radar screens. The next time there she was heard of was in September 1975, and it was bad news : Gwendolyn Ann White (Alexander's real name) had leaped to her death from a hotel room in San Francisco. She was only 44.

Acting credits

Daddy Long Legs poster
6.4

Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.

Daddy Long Legs

1955

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing poster
6.0

Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White and the wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw. Nesbit marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. A fictionalized account of true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

1955

Son of Sinbad poster
5.1

Legendary pirate and adventurer Sinbad is in single-minded pursuit of two things: beautiful women and a substance called Greek Fire--an early version of gunpowder.

Son of Sinbad

1955

Princess of the Nile poster
7.3

Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, forms an alliance with Prince Haidi, son of the Caliph of Bagdad. She practices her intrigues both at the court and, disguised as a dancing girl, in the market place.

Princess of the Nile

1954

The Garment Jungle poster
6.5

Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.

The Garment Jungle

1957

The Solid Gold Cadillac poster
6.2

Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations.

The Solid Gold Cadillac

1956

Raiders of the Seven Seas poster
6.1

After staging a mutiny and commandeering his own ship, famed pirate Barbarossa takes hostage a spirited Spanish noblewoman named Alida, intending to trade her to her fiancé, Capt. Jose Salcedo, for a handsome ransom. But Barbarossa falls in love with Alida, who meanwhile discovers that the roguish swashbuckler is more honorable than her erstwhile betrothed.

Raiders of the Seven Seas

1953

The French Line poster
4.5

Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.

The French Line

1954

I Married a Woman poster
6.4

Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.

I Married a Woman

1958

Cat-Women of the Moon poster
4.1

Astronauts travel to the moon where they discover it is inhabited by attractive young women in black tights.

Cat-Women of the Moon

1953

Down Three Dark Streets poster
5.8

An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.

Down Three Dark Streets

1954

Latin Lovers poster
4.7

An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.

Latin Lovers

1953

Flight Nurse poster
6.0

In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.

Flight Nurse

1953

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis poster
6.1

Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis - women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's father, even though and maybe because she says she's in dreamville, does not share her affection for Dobie. An English essay which almost revolutionizes English instruction, and Dobie's role in a chemistry lab explosion convinces Mr. Hammer he is right. Pansy is sent off broken-hearted to an Eastern school, but with the help of Happy Stella Kolawski's all-girl band, several hundred students and an enraged police force, Dobie secures Pansy's return to Grainbelt.

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

1953