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Susan Cabot
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The founder and owner of a large cosmetics company, Janice Starlin (Susan Cabot), is disturbed when her firm's sales begin to drop after it becomes apparent to her customer base that she is aging. Scientist Eric Zinthrop (Michael Mark) has been able to extract enzymes from the royal jelly of the queen wasp that can reverse the aging process. Starlin agrees to fund further research, at great cost, provided she can serve as his human subject. Displeased with the slowness of the results she breaks into the scientist's laboratory after hours and injects herself with extra doses of the formula. Zinthrop becomes aware that some of the test creatures are becoming violent and goes to warn Janice but before he can reach anyone he gets into a car accident. He is ... temporarily missing and Janice goes through great trouble to find him, eventually managing and then transferring his care to herself.
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Roger Corman star Susan Cabot’s life was every bit as tragic and sensational as her films. She was born Harriet Shapiro on July 9th 1927 in Boston. She grew up shuffled between 8 foster homes. After attending school in Manhattan, Cabot married at 17 perhaps to escape her transient state. She soon developed an interest in acting and singing – performing evenings at Manhattan’s Village Barn. A film career seemed destined when quite by chance the lovely nightclub singer appeared in the 1947 20th Century Fox film ‘Kiss of Death’ with Colleen Gray and Victor Mature.
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Born Harriet Shapiro in Boston on July 9, 1927, petite Susan Cabot grew up in a series of foster homes. After arriving in New York, where she attended school, Cabot married at the age of 17, largely to escape her sad childhood. She had taken an interest in dramatics and singing, and by the time Cabot was 20 years old, she had matured into a beautiful young hopeful actress. She took jobs in early television and a few bit parts in films before she was discovered by a Columbia Studios director, who cast her in On the Isle of Samoa (1950; with Jon Hall). Cabot moved from New York to Hollywood, and in late 1950, she signed a contract with Universal-International. While Susan Cabot is best remembered for her role as Janice Starlin in her final film, The Wasp Woman (1960; with Anthony Eisley and Barboura Morris), at Universal she was frequently cast in westerns.
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Susan Cabot was born in Boston and raised in a series of eight foster homes. She attended high school in Manhattan, where she took an interest in dramatics and joined the school dramatic club. Later, while trying to decide between a career in music or art, she illustrated children's books during the day and sang at Manhattan's Village Barn at night. It was at this same time that she made her film debut as an extra in Fox's New York-made Kiss of Death (1947) and worked in New York-based television. Cabot soon found herself signed to an exclusive contract with Universal, but later asked to be released from the pact when the sameness of her roles in various westerns and Arabian Nights films became more than she could bear. After a brief stint on Broadway, she was once more lured to Hollywood by producer Roger Corman, and set about making the films for which she is best remembered today.
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On December 10th 1986 at the age of 59 Susan Cabot was murdered, bashed to death while she slept with a dumbbell weight bar. When police entered the residence they found the home in a state of absolute squalor and disarray. Ms. Cabot was found in the bedroom, lying on her stomach in bed and wearing a purple v-neck nightgown. Her skull had been completely crushed. Police noted blood splattered on the mirrored walls and (ahem!) ceiling of the bedroom. Initially son Timothy contested that a “Latino intruder dressed as a Ninja warrior” had broken into their Encino home and attacked his mother.
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Unhappy with the roles offered to her at Universal, Cabot got a release from her contract and headed back to New York, as she had been offered a good role in the legitimate theatre. However, Broadway wasn't all she had hoped for, so in 1957, Cabot signed a contract with Roger Corman to do a series of quickie, low-budget films, starting with Carnival Rock (1957; with Dick Miller). Cabot ... dated Roger Corman for a brief period. Cabot also guest-starred on several popular TV shows in the late 1950s, including Have Gun---Will Travel.
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