BYE BYE TO SUSIE HUNSEKER AND RUBY-DOOBEE......RIP SUSAN HARRISON

                      An RIP for Susan Harrison, an actress who enjoyed a all too brief but memorable career as a fresh young starlet......

                      And what a movie to start a career with........the legendary, iconic "Sweet Smell Of Success"......in which Susan played the impossibly, gentle adorable Susie Hunseker, innocent sister of the powerful, ruthless gossip columnist J.J. Hunseker (Burt Lancaster).  J.J. exerts the same iron-willed, malignant influence over Susie as he does over millions of readers and TV viewers.

                      You ache and fear for Harrison's Susie, as her sweet, budding romance with a jazz guitarist (Martin Milner) is undermined and undone by her brother, with the help of his desperate toady, the ever-hustling, conniving press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis.)

                       Harrison moved on to some striking guest starring roles in television......she's the ballerina in that classic Twilight Zone episode, "Five Characters In Search Of An Exit".....(for anyone who hasn't seen it, we dare not reveal the legendary twist.....)

                        Talk about a change of pace, for her last feature film appearance, 1960's "Key Witness", Harrison fairly ignited the screen as Ruby-Doobee, the vicious, official Babe-In-Residence of Dennis Hopper's rampaging gang of teen thugs.   You gotta love Ruby......to stop Jeffrey Hunter from testifying against Hopper, Harrison beats up on Hunter's wife while she's in the courthouse.....(see our 2//21/19 post on "Key Witness")

                       RIP to a remarkable, charismatic talent we only wish we'd seen more of.......