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Susanna "Susan" Kohner (born November 11, 1936) is an American former actress. She is best known for her role as Sarah Jane in Douglas Sirk's drama Imitation of Life (1959), which earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Kohner has also starred in the films The Gene Krupa Story (1959), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising…
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Susanna "Susan" Kohner (born November 11, 1936) is an American retired actress who worked in film and television. Her best-known role was as "Sarah Jane", a young African-American woman attempting to "pass" as white, in Imitation of Life (1959), for which Kohner was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. She won two Golden Globe awards for her performance.
Kohner married mens-wear designer and writer John Weitz in 1964. Their two sons, Paul and Chris, were both film directors, producers, screenwriters, and occasional actors.
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Born as Susanna Kohner in Los Angeles, Kohner is the daughter of Mexican actress Lupita Tovar and Jewish film producer Paul Kohner who was born in Czechoslovakia. Most of Kohner's film roles came during the late 1950s and early 1960s, including co-starring with Sal Mineo in both Dino (1957) and The Gene Krupa Story (1959). In 1959, she was cast as the racially ambiguous Sarah Jane, her most notable role, in the 1959 color remake of Imitation of Life. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Susan+Koh
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