#65 Susan Hart

Want to break into B movies? Try marrying James H. Nicholson, founder of American International Pictures (AIP), a prime producer of B’s like Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, It Conquered the World, and Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine. That’s what Susan Hart did. Good move, Susan!

Embarrassing Real Name:  Susan Neidhart

Embarrassing Real Birthplace:  Wenatchee, WA

Cheesy Pageant Title: Hollywood Deb Star

Embarrassing Movies

• War-Gods of the Deep 
• The Slime People *
• Planet of the Vampires
• The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini *
• Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine *

* - author has seen

Embarrassing Taglines

• SURF'S UP! The swingin'est young people's picture of the year!
• Up from the bowels of the earth ...
• They Became Pawns in a WAR Beneath the WAVES!
• It's kill or be killed in a cycle gang-war!
• Super sexbots... built to kill!

Embarrassing Characters

• Miss Tennis
• Mona Monaghan
• Lili Kalua
• Outraged Woman at Dog Show

Whiffs of Scandal

• Appeared in Playboy (non nude)
  
• Correspondent in divorce proceedings
• Lawsuits over ownership of AIP

Interesting Tidbits

• Was discovered on a Hawaiian beach
• Her song Is This a Disco or a Honky Tonk? made it to the Top 100
• Took up competitive figure skating while in her forties
• Owns the rights to I Was a Teenage Werewolf
• Not to be confused with Susan Hart the neuroscientist, CFO, business school dean, law professor, or porn star (thanks, Google!)

Where can I learn more?

• Sixties Cinema (Tom Lisanti)
• Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen
• IMDb
• Wikipedia

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