Susan Slade — Susan Slade Character Profile

About Susan Slade

The 17-year-old protagonist who becomes pregnant after a secret romance with Conn White. After his fatal climbing accident, she hides her pregnancy, raises the baby as her brother in Guatemala, and returns to California. Ultimately confessing the truth, she rejects social pretense and reunites with Hoyt.

Susan Slade — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Connie Stevens

Appears in

Susan Slade (1961)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (3)

• Susan Slade — Romantic Lover — Conn White (Grant Williams)

  Susan has a shipboard romance with Conn who gets her pregnant

• Susan Slade — Family Mother — Leah Slade (Dorothy McGuire)

  Leah is Susan's mother who helps cover up Susan's pregnancy

• Susan Slade — Family Father — Roger Slade (Lloyd Nolan)

  Roger is Susan's father who has a heart condition he hides from his family

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• Hoyt Brecker (Troy Donahue)
• Leah Slade (Dorothy McGuire)
• Roger Slade (Lloyd Nolan)
• Engineer (John A. Alonzo)
• Stanton Corbett (Brian Aherne)
• Conn White (Grant Williams)
• Marian Corbett (Natalie Schafer)
• Dr. Fain (Kent Smith)
• Wells Corbett (Bert Convy)
• Slim (Guy Wilkerson)