What's my Line? Suzy Parker

[sweetiepillow]

Class you don't see in the US anymore, it is more about sex & flashing in this day & age.

[MegRamseyWebseries]

She was beautiful. And that's an understatement!

[debjorgo]

The Beatles had a song on bootleg albums called Suzy Parker recorded during the Let it Be sessions. It was a rude, suggestive song so most likely it was about one of the reigning supermodels of the time.

The Twilight Zone she was in was Number 12 Looks Just Like You.She was Number 12,the model,girls would have cosmedic surgery to look like.She was in an auto accident during the filming which more or less ended her career.Although after the surgery,she looked just like herself.(Cue the music.)

[SuzettePleshette]

I love her fake accent, lol :) The Southern accent was fake too. Suzy was from New York. (I love her sense of mischief)

[cimann7]

@SuzettePleshette She was actually born in Texas.

[SuzettePleshette]

I love her fake accent, lol :)

[imkluu]

Though Super model wans't coined as a description of models until the 70's I think that Suzy Parker would definitely be considered a Supermodel and was maybe the first Supermodel.

[rip10199]

@imkluu.... no her sister was !!!

[sweetiepillow]

That lady is too beautiful to be American. Fashionable and a real lady

[wondermusic63]

@sweetiepillow I would have to disagree. There are a lot of very beautiful women in America. As beautiful as anywhere else in the world.

[SirBasildeBrush]

My goodness, Ms Parker was gorgeous. Lovely smile, a soft manner, and very, very pretty.

[PatrickLHawkins]

I just love her! She's so beautiful. And that hair. I love the 50's when women's hairstyle's were more free and natural looking than those of the 60's that were teased to the heavens and sprayed to death.

[wilburbonzo]

She was a famous fashion model and cover girl of the 1950s (sister of another famous model of the 50s, Dorian Leigh) and appeared in a number of films, including The Best Of Everything (1959). Her third husband was the actor Bradford Dillman, who appeared frequently on television shows in the 60s and 70s.

[Sugarbehr1967]

Suzy left show business after she married actor Bradford Dillman...she died in 2003...

[MoeGreensRightEye]

Her initials were S.P.

[drobin3149]

To quote Nosferatu: "What a lovely throat!"

I can only have those cheekbones in my dreams. ::sigh::

[Hunterunc]

In the fifties and sixties, Suzy was the first true supermodel. Not that wicked cow, Janice Dickinson, who claims the title.

[dturnbull2]

What a classy lady. I too wish that she had made more movies. I think she was a victim of the collapse of the studio system. Only established actors and actresses with proven box office draw survived that event. Many good talents, like Suzy Parker had to pursue other things.

[Nobeester]

I have watched hours of this program and love them all. However, I must ask this question: does anyone else think Dorothy's blindfold looks like a bra? Or perhaps it might be pink and meant to be frilly and very feminine? Please no cracks about dirty minds. I'm serious.

[MPL029]

Surprised her film career didnt go further. She was however in a famous Twilight Zone episode about the perfect appearance

[kataisa3]

"I wish I could read Robert's mind"

"No you don't" lol. Risque!

Suzy Parker was gorgeous.

[MisterMasterShafter]

Suzy Parker = the original Supermodel. Period. The others are pretenders.

[canucklehead1951]

@MisterMasterShafter : No one else past or present even comes close and if you learn about the kind of woman she was away from the camera you'll love her even more.

[satin3charm]

ditto! and she was really gorgeous!

[OldHollywood93]

@canucklehead1951

What kind of person was she away from the camera?

I'm a fan of Suzy's professional work and would really like to know more about her.

We hardly ever get to know the personal side of models.

[katford7286]

@OldHollywood93 Vanity Fair did an article on her in 2006 called "Everyone Fell for Suzy." I guess she was just as fabulous in person.

[OldHollywood93]

@katford7286

Thank you.

YEs, she seems quite charming and pleasant.

[crossy70]

Why did she say "NO" when she was all over the gossip and entertainment section of national and world-wide magazines (like Paris Match, French Elle, etc). Suzy was pretty dumb!

[aadfw92]

The most beautiful and elegant supermodel of all time!

[AceTheBathound]

Suzy Was from Texas...

[markhh]

Wow, what a beauty! Did you see Arlene Francis give her the once over as she left the stage. Stunning and glamorous.

[Cris43130]

I thought Robert Q. Lewis was on the right trail then just went nowhere.

Also, with all due respect to the woman who claims to be the person for whom the term Supermodel was coined, Susy Parker is truly the person for whom it should have been coined.

[rentatrip1]

I recall her face and hair from many era publications , ads for Clairol Hair color ???? Not so much of an Established Hollywood actress, - but on or in every monthly magazine in the early 60's ...Yes?

[Cris43130]

Yes, she was far and away the most easily recognized model of her day. She was probably saying yes about her acting career for two reasons, to lead the panel off track and to promote her acting career.

[crossy70]

Suzy started to appear in fashion magazines and LIFE magazine in 1947 when she was just 15. Her older sister, Dorian Leigh (Parker), was already a famous model.

[rickram1961]

Suzy Parker was so good in the movie "The Best of Everything".

[super885]

She is ugly,looks like a horse.Typical British face

[44032]

She isn't ugly, a horse or British.

[JudgeJulieLit]

But an Anglo American.

[calalilygirl]

@44032 This was my line. I wrote this.

[KryptoTSD]

Okay... Thanks!

[KryptoTSD]

Suzy Parker was absolutely beautiful...

This must have been in the late Fifties or the early Sixties...

[ccvisions]

They mentioned she just made "The Best Of Everything" which was released in October 1959

[calalilygirl]

Beautiful..look at that bone structure!

[UncleCharlieOakley]

An absolute stunner, as was her sister, the gorgeous Dorian Leigh.

[SatineCharm]

My favorite models in the era was Suzy Parker and Dovima.

Beautiful and I agree, wish this was in colour so I could see her red flaming hair and beautiful eyes.

[Hunterunc]

And that tacky Janice Dickinson calls herself the first supermodel. Sorry, THIS was the first. Suzy was the biggest model in the world at this time. She did TV and movies (a great Twilight Zone), and she wasn't a bad actress at all, she just didn't have the drive for it. But what a divine beauty she was. You should see her in color with that red hair and green eyes.

[DanaThayer]

Totally agree - Janice Dickinson has delusions of grandeur.

[trainerkeith]

Now THAT is what a SUPERMODEL should still look like...beautiful, elegant, classy...Unfortunately now we have Kate Moss

[calalilygirl]

Excellent comment...you're so right.

[Muffy2314]

Yes, very beautiful girl.

[bigred997]

Yes, I remember her as the redhead who befuddled Cary in Kiss Them For Me but the critics lambasted her performance saying that she was getting roles because of looks and not acting talent.

[tjbnyc76]

Good lord, I'm gasping for breath after that intake of glamour. The hair, the suit, the cheekbones...marvelous.

[mca1218]

Yes- that was a vision of cover-girl loveliness.

[soulierinvestments]

Model associated with Coco Chanel.

Acting career in movies and TV from 1957 -1970.

Movies: Funny Face (1957), Kiss Them for Me opposite Cary Grant, The Best of Everything, Ten North Frederick starring Gary Cooper, Circle of Deception (1960) where she met future husband Bradford Dillman, Flight from Ashiya, Chamber of Horrors.

In Summer 1961 she appeared as a WML panelist twice, at which time she was introduced as a SMART actress. Wonder why.

[44032]

Fun"Breakfast at Tiffany's" was based on her older sister. Suzy was in "The Best of Everything" with some heavy competition in the beauty department, (Hope Lange and Diane Baker, as well as a Miss America and and Playboy centerfold), but she easily outshown them all.

[44032]

First sentence should read "Funny Face was based on her career."