Influential Hollywood Agent Sue Mengers Dies

Sue Mengers Sue Mengers, most likely probably the most influential Hollywood agents through the sixties, '70s and eighties, died following several small strokes, Vanity Fair reviews. She mentioned being 78 years old, however, many sources mentioned she was 81. According to Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter, Mengers died Saturday at her Beverly Slopes home ornamented by close pals, Ali MacGraw, Joanna Poitier (widow of Sidney) and Boaty Boatwright. Remember other stars we lost this year Mengers was produced in Germany and gone after the united states . States along with her parents in 1938 through the Holocaust. She started inside the entertainment industry in 1955 when she labored inside a receptionist at MCA, your William Morris Agency. She left the 2nd company in 1963 being a realtor and her initial few large clients incorporated Broadway actress Julie Harris and Psycho's Anthony Perkins. Until her retirement in 1986, Mengers labored at Creative Management Affiliate marketers and Worldwide Creative Management and was one of the pioneering female agents available. Her clientele incorporated Candice Bergen, Michael Caine, Cher, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Sidney Lumet, Steve McQueen, Nick Nolte, Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd and Barbra Streisand, who offered as Mengers' maid-matron of honour in their 1973 wedding to Belgian author-director Jean-Claude Tramont. (Tramont died in 1996). Mengers appeared to become the muse for your character referred to by her client, Dyan Cannon, inside the 1973 film All the Sheila. Mengers maintained a stronghold inside the film community extended after her retirement in the commercial side. "When she wound her career lower inside the eighties, Agent Sue increased being Hostess Sue-and he or she being more efficient in their new vocation," Carter written within the tribute. "Dinner at Sue's was like walking in to a Hollywood you imagined, but rarely experienced."