Sue Ane Langdon

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Sue Ane Langdon (born Sue Lookhoff; March 8, 1936) is an American actress.

A sexy blonde with a squeaky voice, 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 1960'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 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 which lead to her posing nude for Playboy Magazine.

Langdon was for a short time the third "Alice Kramden" [1] 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.

Her other television series guest roles included The Dick Van Dyke Show, Perry Mason, Bonanza, The Wild, Wild West, Ironside, Mannix, Banacek, Three's Company and Happy Days.

Langdon was born in New Jersey but traveled extensively with her widowed mother, living in several different states as a child. She attended North Texas State and the University of Idaho, then began her performing career in New York, working at Radio City Music Hall and in various productions on Broadway.

She has been married to Jack Emrek since 1959.

External links

• Sue Ane Langdon at the Internet Movie Database
• Sue Ane Langdon at the Internet Broadway Database
• Sue Ane Langdon at TV.com

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