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Susan Fleming

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Susan Fleming (February 19, 1908 – December 22, 2002) was an American actress and the wife of comic actor Harpo Marx. Fleming was known as the "Girl with the Million Dollar Legs" for a role she played in the W. C. Fields film Million Dollar Legs (1932). Her big stage break, which led to her Hollywood career, was as a Ziegfeld girl, performing in The Ziegfeld Follies. Fleming was from New York City and went to school in Forest Hills, Queens. After starring in the Ziegfeld Follies productions on Broadway, she started appearing in movies. One of her earliest film roles was a starring role in Range Feud as Judy Walton, the love interest of John Wayne. Fleming combined her dancing and cinematic interests in the 1932 movie Million Dollar Legs, in which she played the daughter of W. C. Fields' character. As part of a publicity stunt for the film, her legs were insured for the eponymous million dollars. Fleming was unhappy with Hollywood, stating in a 1995 interview that she found "nothing more boring than working on a movie... I hated it!". At a dinner party held in the home of Samuel Goldwyn, she was seated next to Harpo Marx and found him fascinating. Despite his silent persona in films, she found Marx to be "a warm, fun, darling man to talk to". She pursued him relentlessly, dating for four years and proposing marriage to him on three separate occasions before he accepted. She ended her Hollywood career when she married Marx on September 28, 1936. Fleming's wedding to Marx was revealed to the public when President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt sent the couple a telegram of congratulations in November. Marx had sent a thank you letter to Roosevelt in appreciation for a signed photograph of the President, in which Marx had stated that he was "in line for congratulations, too, having been married since September" in an unspecified "little town up North". Fleming outlived Marx by almost forty years during which she was an artist and activist in the Palm Springs area. She died at age 94 on December 22, 2002, of a heart attack at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. She was survived by a daughter, three sons, five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.


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Born:
Feb 19, 1908 In New York City, New York, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
19
First Appeared:
In the movie A Dangerous Affair 1931-09-29
Latest Project:
Series Inner Sanctum 1954-01-09
Known For
Poster of Star for a Night
Poster of Call It Luck
Poster of She Learned About Sailors
Poster of Careless Lady
Filmography
Series Inner Sanctum Unknown 1954-01-09
Movie God's Country and the Woman Grace Moran 1937-01-16
Movie Star for a Night Mildred La Rue 1936-08-28
Movie Gold Diggers of 1937 Lucille Bailey 1936-12-28
Movie Break of Hearts Elise 1935-05-31
Movie Charlie Chan's Courage Chorus Girl 1934-07-06
Movie Call It Luck Alice Blue 1934-07-09
Movie She Learned About Sailors Departing Sailor's Girlfriend 1934-06-28
Movie Elinor Norton Publisher's Staff 1934-11-02
Movie By Your Leave Miss Allen 1934-11-09
Movie I Love That Man Miss Jones - Stenographer 1933-07-07
Movie He Learned About Women Joan Allen 1933-03-02
Movie My Weakness Jacqueline Wood 1933-09-22
Movie Broadway Thru a Keyhole Chorine 1933-11-02
Movie Ladies of the Jury Mrs. Crane's Maid Suzanne (uncredited) 1932-02-02
Movie Careless Lady Guest of Captain Girard 1932-04-02
Movie Million Dollar Legs Angela 1932-07-08
Movie A Dangerous Affair Florence 1931-09-29
Movie The Range Feud Judy Walton 1931-10-14