Susan Sarandon

Sarandon and Robbins are also noted for their involvement in liberal political causes. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - for Motion Pictures, at 1612 Vine St, and for Television, at 1634 Vine St. Sarandon has three children: actress Eva Amurri (born 1985) by Franco Amurri; and John Henry (born 1989) and Miles (born 1992) by Robbins. She retired from acting, and died at her home in Ketchum, Idaho from heart failure. Her recent movies include Stepmom (1998), Anywhere But Here (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999) (portraying Mussolini's mistress), and The Banger Sisters (2002). Her role as the neighbour of elderly sisters, played by Lillian Gish and Bette Davis, with romantic interest provided by Vincent Price, brought Sothern an Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination. Sarandon received four Academy Award nominations in the 1990s, finally winning in 1996 for Dead Man Walking. Her final film role was in The Whales of August in 1987.

It was while filming that movie that she met actor Tim Robbins, with whom she established a relationship that continues to this day (as of 2004). She resumed working sporadically on television until the mid 1980s, including a television remake of her earlier success A Letter To Three Wives. She was nominated for an Oscar in 1980 for Atlantic City, but was still not a "household name" until the 1988 film Bull Durham. In 1965 she was heard as the voice of the car in the series My Mother The Car. That same year, she also played the female lead in The Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford. Both programs were very successful and earned Sothern four Emmy Award nominations, but a bout of hepatitis had left her with a bloated and overweight appearance, and she preferred not to be seen. She did not follow up on the success of that movie, taking roles in lesser films such as Lovin' Molly; it was five more years before she appeared in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the cult classic. She was the lead in the series Private Secretary from 1953 until 1957, and The Ann Sothern Show from 1958 until 1959.

In 1970 she went to a cattle call for the film Joe with Chris and, although he did not get a part, Susan received the major role of the disaffected teen who disappears into the seedy underworld. By the fifties she was rarely seen in films and was appearing regularly in television. Born Susan Abigail Tomalin in New York, New York, she attended The Catholic University of America in 1964, where she met and married fellow student Chris Sarandon, whom she would divorce fifteen years later while still retaining her married name as her stage name. She appeared in A Letter to Three Wives in (1949) and the film earned her excellent reviews, but did not stimulate her career. Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an Academy Award winning American actress. After years of trying, Sothern had her first real success, and a string of "Maisie" film sequels and radio plays took her through to the late forties. 1982 Nominated Atlantic City. In a role originally intended for Jean Harlow, Sothern was cast as "Maisie", a bold, brassy but somewhat scatter-brained showgirl who was also an amateur detective.

1992 Nominated Thelma and Louise. After a string of films that failed to attract an audience, Sothern left RKO and was signed to MGM, making her first film for them in 1939. 1993 Nominated Lorenzo's Oil. Born Harriette Arlene Lake in Valley City, North Dakota, Sothern began her film career as an extra in silent films in 1927. In 1934 she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures but after two years the studio released her from this contract, and she was signed by RKO Pictures in 1936. 1995 Nominated The Client. Ann Sothern (January 22, 1909 - March 15, 2001) was a American film actress. 1996 Won Dead Man Walking.