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Occupation
  
Stage, film actress

Name
  
Suzanne Kaaren

Role
  
Movie actress


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Born
  
March 21, 1912 (
1912-03-21
)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Resting place
  
Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina

Died
  
August 27, 2004, Englewood, New Jersey, United States

Spouse
  
Sidney Blackmer (m. 1943–1973)

Children
  
Jonathan Blackmer, Brewster Blackmer

Movies
  
The Devil Bat, Disorder in the Court, Phantom Ranger, What's the Matador?, Yes - We Have No Bonanza

Similar People
  
Jean Yarbrough, Sidney Blackmer, Jules White, Phil Rosen, Sam Newfield

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Suzanne Kaaren (March 21, 1912 – August 27, 2004) was an American B-movie actress and dancer who starred in stock film genres of the 1930s and 1940s: horror films, westerns, and romances.

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Education and athletics

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Kaaren attended Erasmus Hall High School and Hunter College before being signed by 20th Century Fox in September 1933. In 1931, she won a high-jumping contest in a New York City school contest. Her parents refused to let her compete in the Olympic Games. She collected butterflies as a hobby and had several books filled with the insects.

Early career

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She acted with stock companies and posed as a model for commercial painters and cigarette advertising. Kaaren appeared in dramatic parts in New York theaters and trained at the Hedgerow Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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She was one of the original Rockettes. Kaaren performed on stage on December 27, 1932, the night Radio City Music Hall opened.

Movie actress

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Kaaren left for Hollywood in October 1933. Her starting salary was $150 per week, and was eventually cast opposite Tim McCoy in Ridin' Gents, a Monogram Pictures production. She was then signed by Republic Pictures to play a character in From Rags To Riches. Ridin' Gents was filmed without either McCoy or Kaaren.

She joined a troupe assembled by producer Walter Wanger, which also included Gloria Youngblood. The theatrical company was known as Trade Winds. The comedy When's Your Birthday? (1937) showcased the zany Joe E. Brown, with Kaaren among the supporting players in an RKO Radio Pictures movie about an astrologer.

In October 1941, Kaaren was added to the cast of I Married an Angel. She portrayed a maid named Simone, and was uncredited. In October 1943, Pete Smith assigned Kaaren and Harry Barris the leading roles in an MGM motion picture which was to be called Practical Joker. The film was never made.

Kaaren figured prominently in several Three Stooges comedy short films. They are Disorder in the Court, Yes, We Have No Bonanza, and What's the Matador?.

Miracles for Sale (1939) was based on the novel Death From A Tophat by Clayton Rawson. Kaaren plays a woman who is separated into halves and then joined together again suspensefully. The murder mystery has Robert Young and Florence Rice in prominent roles.

She starred opposite Bela Lugosi in The Devil Bat. The cult film of the horror film genre is a Poverty Row production released by Producers Releasing Corporation. In the movie, Lugosi breeds giant bats to attack people.

Her final appearance on film is uncredited role as the Duchess of Park Avenue (Manhattan) in 1984's The Cotton Club.

Theater

Kaaren stepped into the character usually played by Ann Thomas in a Broadway presentation of Chicken Every Sunday. Staged in September 1944, Thomas left the production to go to Hollywood. In July 1946, Kaaren's elder son, Brewster, was in the play with her as an eight-month-old. She was also joined by her husband, Sidney Blackmer, on stage at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania. In April 1953, the Blackmers starred in Glad Tidings in Atlantic City, New Jersey. A month later, the show moved to the Quarterback Theatre, also in Atlantic City.

In 1959, Kaaren appeared in The Royal Family at the Hinsdale Summer Theater in Chicago, Illinois. Linda Darnell starred; Karyn Kupcinet and Stuart Brent were also in the cast. The theme was a famous family of the American stage.

Personal life

She married stage and screen actor Sidney Blackmer on June 13, 1943, in a civil ceremony in Santa Ana, California. Raquel Torres was a witness at the wedding. Blackmer was married previously to Lenore Ulric.

By this time, Kaaren was under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The marriage was a turbulent one from the outset. The couple separated in September 1943 and Blackmer instructed his attorney to file for divorce in October, but the couple remained together until Blackmer's death in October 1973. The marriage produced two sons, Brewster and Jonathen.

The Blackmers had lived in his family home in Salisbury, North Carolina, until it was damaged by fire in 1984. Afterward, she resided in a rent-controlled Manhattan apartment at 100 Central Park South. According to her obituary, real estate developer Donald Trump bought the building and threatened to tear it down to build something more lucrative. Kaaren refused to budge, and, in 1998, a court ruled that Trump had to allow the rent-controlled tenants to remain.

Suzanne Kaaren died from pneumonia in Englewood, New Jersey, in 2004, aged 92.

Filmography

Actress
1984
The Cotton Club as
The Duchess of Park Avenue (uncredited)
1944
Rationing as
Information Girl (uncredited)
1942
I Married an Angel as
Simone (uncredited)
1942
What's the Matador? (Short) as
Dolores Sanchez
1941
Rags to Riches as
Glenda Hayes
1941
Roar of the Press as
Angela Brooks
1940
The Devil Bat as
Mary Heath
1940
The Ghost Comes Home as
Nightclub Flower Girl (uncredited)
1940
City of Chance as
Mrs. Williams (uncredited)
1939
Coat Tales (Short) as
Model
1939
The Women as
Princess Mara (uncredited)
1939
Miracles for Sale as
Magician's Assistant in Demo (uncredited)
1939
Yes, We Have No Bonanza (Short) as
Singing Sister (uncredited)
1939
Mexicali Rose as
Carruthers' Secretary (uncredited)
1939
Idiot's Delight as
Nurse #3 (uncredited)
1939
Pride of the Navy as
Undermined Role (uncredited)
1938
Trade Winds as
Russian Girl (uncredited)
1938
Sweethearts as
Woman in Lobby (uncredited)
1938
Phantom Ranger as
Joan Doyle (as Suzanne Karen)
1938
Blondes at Work as
Olive
1938
Here's Flash Casey as
Mitzi LaRue
1937
Angel as
Girl Who Gambles (uncredited)
1937
Romance of Louisiana (Short) as
Empress Josephine
1937
Rhythm in the Clouds as
Dorothy Day
1937
The Wildcatter as
Julia Frayne
1937
Sing While You're Able as
Gloria
1937
When's Your Birthday? as
Diane Basscombe
1936
A Million to One as
Pat Stanley
1936
No Place Like Rome (Short) as
Lydia - Roman Slave Girl
1936
White Legion as
Gloria Blank
1936
Undercover Man as
Linda Forbes
1936
Wives Never Know as
Miss Flinton (uncredited)
1936
Disorder in the Court (Short) as
Gail Tempest (uncredited)
1936
The Great Ziegfeld as
Ruth Blair (uncredited)
1935
The Big Broadcast of 1936 as
Young Woman in Negligee (uncredited)
1935
The Affair of Susan as
Girl on Beach (uncredited)
1935
Strangers All as
Frances Farrell
1935
Women Must Dress as
Janet Howard
1934
Wild Gold as
One of the Golden Girls
1934
Sleepers East as
Dixie
1934
Bottoms Up as
Wolf's Secretary
1934
Three on a Honeymoon as
Flirt (uncredited)
1933
Close Relations (Short) as
Girl in Depot (uncredited)
1933
Seasoned Greetings (Short) as
Girl Looking in Store Window (uncredited)
Soundtrack
1940
The Ghost Comes Home (performer: "Moonlight Bay" (1912) - uncredited)
1939
Yes, We Have No Bonanza (Short) (performer: "Red River Valley/She'll Be Coming 'Round The Mountain" - uncredited)
1937
Rhythm in the Clouds (performer: "Hawaiian Hospitality", "Two Hearts are Dancing" - uncredited)
1936
No Place Like Rome (Short) (performer: "Song of Flavius", "Here's a Spot to Sing a Song of Love" - uncredited)
Self
1937
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 2 (Documentary short) as
Self
Archive Footage
2015
Hey Moe, Hey Dad! (TV Series documentary) as
Various characters
- Eureka! (2015) - Various characters (uncredited)
- Slap Happy (2015) - Various characters (uncredited)
- A Stooge Is Born (2015) - Various characters (uncredited)
1994
Biography (TV Series documentary) as
Various
- Stooges: The Men Behind the Mayhem (1994) - Various (uncredited)
1990
The Three Stooges 60th Anniversary Special (TV Movie documentary)
1985
Stoogemania as
Gail Tempest (uncredited)
1974
The Three Stooges Follies as
Saloon Girl

References

Suzanne Kaaren Wikipedia


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