Influential Hollywood Agent Sue Mengers Dies

Sue Mengers Sue Mengers, probably the most influential Hollywood agents throughout the sixties, '70s and 1980s, died following several small strokes, Vanity Fair reviews. She stated to become 78 years of age, however, many sources stated she was 81. Based on Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter, Mengers died Saturday at her Beverly Hillsides home encircled by close buddies, Ali MacGraw, Joanna Poitier (widow of Sidney) and Boaty Boatwright. Remember other celebs we lost this season Mengers was created in Germany and gone to live in the U . s . States together with her parents in 1938 throughout the Holocaust. She began within the entertainment industry in 1955 when she labored in a receptionist at MCA, then your William Morris Agency. She left the second company in 1963 being a real estate agent and her first couple of large clients incorporated Broadway actress Julie Harris and Psycho's Anthony Perkins. Until her retirement in 1986, Mengers labored at Creative Management Affiliates and Worldwide Creative Management and was among the pioneering female agents in the commercial. 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' bridesmaid in her own 1973 wedding to Belgian author-director Jean-Claude Tramont. (Tramont died in 1996). Mengers seemed to be the muse for that character described by her client, Dyan Cannon, within the 1973 film All of the Sheila. Mengers maintained a stronghold within the film community lengthy after her retirement in the business side. "When she wound her career lower within the 1980s, Agent Sue grew to become Hostess Sue-and she or he being more effective in her own new vocation," Carter authored in the tribute. "Dinner at Sue's was like walking right into a Hollywood you imagined, but rarely experienced."