A premature departure from the role following a brief four-week run left her mark on the American Scene Magazine era of Gleason's career a small one at best. Preceded by Pert Kelton and Audrey Meadows and followed by Sheila MacRae and Meadows again, she shared a Life cover with Gleason promoting his 1962 return to weekly variety television. Langdon's first regular role on network series television came as the third actress to play Alice Kramden in Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners sketches and shows. Her later films included The Evictors (1979), Without Warning (1980), Zapped! (1982), UHF (1989) and Zapped Again! (1990). In 1966, United Artists Pictures released Frankie and Johnny in which Langdon co-starred along with Elvis Presley, Donna Douglas and Harry Morgan. Langdon went on to have leading roles in films such as The Rounders (1965), Hold On! (1966), A Guide for the Married Man (1967), A Man Called Dagger (1967), The Cheyenne Social Club (1970), and A Fine Madness (1966) which led to her posing nude for Playboy magazine. Langdon's film debut came in The Great Impostor (1961), starring Tony Curtis. She was also briefly enrolled full-time at Idaho State University. ![]() She was featured mainly in comedies, with an occasional dramatic film.Īfter graduating high school, Langdon enrolled at the University of North Texas. In 1978, she appeared in Chicago for Kenley Players in Columbus, Ohio. In 1976, she appeared in Hello Dolly at The Little Theatre on the Square. ![]() Her co-starring role on the television series Arnie won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress-Television. In the mid-1960s, she appeared in the Broadway musical The Apple Tree, which starred Alan Alda. She began her performing career singing at Radio City Music Hall and acting in stage productions. She has appeared in dozens of television series and had featured roles in films such as A Guide for the Married Man and The Cheyenne Social Club, both directed by Gene Kelly, as well as The Rounders opposite Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford and two Elvis Presley movies, Roustabout and Frankie and Johnny. Frankie And Johnny Photo Shoot Session - from the EPSS site.Sue Ane Langdon is an American actress.Roustabout Photo Shoot Session - from the EPSS site.Today, Sue Ane lives on a ranch in the San Fernando Valley, which is outfitted in Western-style antique Monterey furniture, of which she and her late husband Jack Emrek were both avid collectors. More recently, Sue Ane has appeared in the Wierd Al Yankovic film, UHF, in 1989, and in the two Zapped! movies (1982 & 1990). Besides the Elvis films, I remember her most from the TV series, Arnie, in the early '70's (for which she won a Golden Globe Award). In between these two films, she made a comedy-western with Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda, The Rounders, and later appeared with Henry Fonda again in The Cheyenne Social Club, another comedy-western, with James Stewart. In Frankie And Johnny, she's Mitzi, the girl who tells on him ("makin' love to that Nellie Bly"). In Roustabout, she was Madame Mijanou, the carnival's fortune-teller, who flirts with Elvis, but steers him back to Joan Freeman. In both of her appearances in Elvis films, Sue Ane played a "second girl" part, rather than leading lady. Guest appearances throughout the sixties, including shots on The Andy Griffith Show, McHale's Navy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bonanza, The Wild, Wild West, and Gunsmoke. In 1962, she appeared on the cover of LIFE magazine, announcing her new role as Alice on The Honeymooners, with Jackie Gleason, which lasted for a year. ![]() She made her film debut in The Great Impostor (1960), with Tony Curtis. Her first big break was as a regular on the TV series, Bachelor Father, with John Forsythe, where she worked from 1959 to 1961. After studying four years in New York, and working on and off Broadway, she headed for Hollywood. ![]() Growing up mainly in the states of Texas, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Oregon nurtured Sue Ane's love of the West. Sue Ane made her debut at the age of five in one of these shows. She became a voice instructor, and directed student theatre and music productions at the several colleges where she taught. When Sue Ane was two, her widowed mother was left to support herself and It's probably because- well, because she's funny! I had the opportunity to talk to Sue Ane on the phone a couple of times about this page, and she disarmed me right away with her sense of humor, and down-to-earth attitude. In most of her films, Sue Ane played "the funny girl". Sue Ane Langdon Roustabout, 1964 Frankie And Johnny, 1966īorn: March 8, 1936, Paterson, New Jersey.
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