Sue Ane Langdon

Sue Ane Langdon
Born Sue Lookhoff
March 8, 1936 (1936-03-08) (age 75)
Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.
Other names Sue Anne Langdon
Sue Ann Langdon
Occupation Actress
Years active 1959–1991
Spouse Jack Emrek
(1959–2010) (widowed)
Awards Golden Globe Awards (1971)
Golden Boot Awards (2003)

Sue Ane Langdon (born March 8, 1936) is a retired American actress.

She began her performing career singing at Radio City Music Hall and acting in stage productions. In the mid-1960s she acted at Manhattan's Schubert Theatre in The Apple Tree musical,[1] which starred a young Alan Alda. In 1976, she was in the musical Hello Dolly at The Little Theatre on the Square[2] in Illinois.

Langdon was featured in many comedies as well as an occasional dramatic performance. She appeared in a pair of Elvis Presley movies, Roustabout and Frankie and Johnny. Her starring role as the wife in the CBS television series Arnie won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Television.

Her film debut came in 1961's The Great Impostor, which starred Tony Curtis. Langdon went on to have leading roles in films such as The Rounders (1965) with Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford (which included a memorable scene involving her exposed buttocks), A Guide for the Married Man (1967) with Walter Matthau A Man Called Dagger and The Cheyenne Social Club with Fonda and James Stewart. She also appeared with Sean Connery in a short but memorable scene in 1966's A Fine Madness[3] which led to her posing nude for Playboy magazine. In that same year of 1966, United Artists Pictures released Frankie and Johnny in which Langdon co-starred along with Elvis Presley, Donna Douglas (Elly May Clampett of The Beverly Hillbillies fame) and Harry Morgan (of Dragnet and later MASH fame).

Langdon was the third actress to play Alice Kramden in Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners sketches and shows, preceded by Pert Kelton and Audrey Meadows and followed by Sheila MacRae and Meadows again. Langdon shared a Life magazine cover with Gleason, but played the role only briefly in the 1960s version, during the American Scene Magazine era, before MacRae took the role over for the color hour-long musical versions.

She appeared as Kitty Marsh during the NBC portion (1959–1961) of Bachelor Father, starring John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran, and Sammee Tong. The next year, she appeared twice on Rod Cameron's syndicated crime drama COronado 9. In 1962, she appeared as nurse Mary Simpson in an episode of CBS's The Andy Griffith Show and as Kate Tassel in The "Catawomper" episode of Gunsmoke. She made guest appearances on such series as Mannix, McHale's Navy, Bonanza, Ironside, Perry Mason, Banacek, The Wild Wild West, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Three's Company and Happy Days.

Her name has often appeared in crossword puzzles as a three letter word clue, due to the unusual spelling of the middle name she was often credited under (Ane instead of the more conventional spellings of Ann or Anne).

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Early life

She was born Sue Lookhoff in Paterson, New Jersey. Sue has lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Pendleton, Oregon, Athens, West Virginia, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Kingsville, Texas, Denton, Texas, Twin Falls, Idaho, Pocatello, Idaho, Butte, Montana, Saint Louis, Missouri, New York, and Hollywood.[4][5]

Parents: Her father, Albert G. Lookhoff (26 Feb 1901 Jacksonville, New Jersey – 1 May 1938 Pompton Plains, New Jersey) died when she was two years old, and her mother, Grace Wallace (aka Wallis[6]) Lookhoff née Huddle (12 Jan 1908, Illinois – 21 Nov 1980, Napa County, CA), began teaching[7] voice lessons at various campuses around the country.
Her mother, an operatic soprano, had studied music at Washington University in Saint Louis and Juilliard. Her opera performances, beginning with her New York debut in Lewisohn Stadium, included appearances with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Coolidge Festival in Washington, D.C., and the Saint Louis Municipal Opera. Grace Lookhoff's teaching career shows the timeline and places where Sue Ane grew up:

Sue Ane was enrolled at the University of North Texas. She also was enrolled full-time at Idaho State University during the 1954 spring semester (3 Feb 1954 to 5 June 1954).[8] ISU records show her name as Sue Ann Lookhoff.

Personal life

Sue Ane Lookhoff married Jack Emrek (né Robert J. Hanusek; 1920–2010) April 4, 1959, in Las Vegas, Nevada,[9] and remained married to him until his death April 27, 2010. Jack Emrek was a motion picture, stage and television director.[10]

References

Inline citations

  1. ^ "The Apple Tree". Internet Broadway Database. http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=101904. Retrieved 2 June 2010. 
  2. ^ Shervey PhD, Beth; Palmer, Peter (2000). The Little Theatre on the Square: Four Decades of a Small-Town Equity Theatre. Southern Illinois University Press. pp. 108. ISBN 978-0809323548. 
  3. ^ Lisanti, Tom (2001). Fantasy Femmes of 60's Cinema: Interviews with 20 Actresses from Biker, Beach, and Elvis Movies. McFarland & Company. pp. 290–291. ISBN 978-0786408689. 
  4. ^ Margaret McManus, Jackie's Weekly Hour-Long Show To Follow Previous Pattern, The Oregonian, TV Sect., Sept. 2, 1962
  5. ^ Earl Wilson's New York, Aberdeen Daily News, July 17, 1966
  6. ^ Marriage Records of the First Reformed Church at Pompton Plains, New Jersey, April 9, 1930
  7. ^ Lisanti, Tom; Paul, Louis; O'Neill, Eileen (2002). Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1963-1973. McFarland & Company. pp. 171–174. ISBN 978-0786411948. 
  8. ^ Alumni Records, Idaho State University
  9. ^ Nevada Marriage Index, 1956–2005
  10. ^ Actress Comes Home for Visit in Texas, The Dallas Morning News, Feb. 21, 1961

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