Sue Carol

Sue Carol

Sue Carol (October 30, 1906February 4, 1982) was an American actress.

Carol was born Evelyn Lederer in Chicago, Illinois to Caroline, a German Jewish immigrant, and Samuel Lederer, a Jewish immigrant from Austria. One of the WAMPAS Baby Stars, for eleven years from 1927 to 1937, she performed in motion pictures then became a successful agent.

Among the movies in which she appeared are "Fox Movietone Follies of 1929" and "Girls Gone Wild" (1929). Her films were made in association with producer Cecil B. Demille and MGM.

Carol established her own talent agency, the Sue Carol Agency.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Sue Carol has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1639 N. Vine Street.

In July 1929 Carol became engaged to film star Nick Stuart and the couple secretly married in November. Earlier the same year she was divorced from Allen H. Keefer, a buyer for a Chicago stock yard firm.

In 1933 Carol was cleared in a case involving the disappearance of a baby from a Brooklyn, New York family. The family had complained that the baby had been taken for adoption in November 1932 by a woman who said she was acting in behalf of Carol.

She married actor Alan Ladd in 1942. They had a son and a daughter, and she was his manager until his death by an overdose of drugs and alcohol in 1964.

Sue Carol died in 1982 in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack and is interred next to Alan Ladd in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

References

*New York Times, "Sue Carol To Wed Nick Stuart", July 23, 1929, Page 32.
*New York Times, "Sue Carol Secretly Wed", November 29, 1929, Page 27.
*New York Times, "Sue Carol Cleared In Baby Case", February 8, 1933, Page 17.
*New York Times, "Sue Carol Ladd, Ex-Actress And Widow of Alan Ladd, 72", February 6, 1982, Page 16.

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