Susan Slade

Susan Slade (1961)

She always meant to hold them off. She never could until she met the boy who understood...

A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass her secret baby off as her own.

Date of release
1961-11-08
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (15)
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Delmer Daves

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: San Francisco and California

Susan Slade is a 1961 American Technicolor drama film directed by Delmer Daves and starring Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Dorothy McGuire and Lloyd Nolan. Based upon the 1961 novel The Sin of Susan Slade by Doris Hume, concerns a well-to-do teenage girl who secretly has a baby out of wedlock. With cinematography by Lucien Ballard, the film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Production

Film rights to the novel were originally bought by Edward Small who announced he intended to film it in February 1960. He subsequently sold the rights to Warner Bros. who allocated the project to Delmer Daves; he used Troy Donahue and Dorothy McGuire, who had just appeared in Daves' A Summer Place.

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