SUZAN BALL

Suzan Ball (born "Susan Ball") was an actress from the 1950s. Hers was one of the more tragic Hollywood stories! She was a cousin of Lucille Ball's, and she was signed to a contract at age 18, and she had romances with Scott Brady and a still married Anthony Quinn, but she then fell hard for actor Richard Long. She made several movies and it seemed like everything was wonderful for her, but then she hurt her leg filming East of Sumatra, and she developed tumors there, and she fell and broke her leg, and the leg was amputated. She married Long, but then the cancer recurred in her lungs, and Long nursed her through a long devastating illness, and she died in 1955 at just 21 years of age.