Sue Mengers

Sue is only mentioned or appreciated anymore on Datalounge.

I’m going to watch this with my hag! Thanks, OP!

I’m sure this has been posted a zillion times here but once more. Sue was the 70s.

Only interesting as a time capsule

R4 sounds limited.

Didn’t Sondheim write the screenplay for The Last of Sheila?

But she was a terrible agent who specialized in grabbing already well established stars and then doing fuck all for them. Basically a con artist.

That’s ok!

She was a flash in the pan

Dominic Dunne said her allegedly French husband was a Jewish guy he knew as a page at NBC in NYC when Dunne worked for Robert Montgomery. Seems to have been true.

Sue was never a friend.

So she was a cunt?

Oh well, still going to watch it.

That’s some good goss though, r9.

She a bitch!

Yes, for such a super agent, she was not particularly good at managing her the careers of her clients, always going for the immediate money grab. The only people on her client list in the 70s whose big name film acting careers seriously extended beyond that decade are Michael Caine and Gene Hackman, both for reasons probably unrelated to Mengers at all.

R12 it’s for reasons that are probably not related to her.

Mike, thou art loosed!

Tatum! Ali! Tony Perkins... the megastars of the the 80s!

Maybe Babs sucked-up all her time...

^^It’s the early to mid 70s not the 80s

Fat girl on the make -

Did anyone happen to see the Bette Midler show about Sue. It didn't seem to run very long. Wonder if the play was shit, Bette was shit, or that fact that Sue was shit.

Saw it. Bette was amazing. Show was good but no one knows Sur. Bad idea for a Broadway show.

Mengers represented Candice Bergen, Peter Bogdanovich, Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon, Cher, Joan Collins, Brian De Palma, Faye Dunaway, Bob Fosse, Gene Hackman, Sidney Lumet, Ali MacGraw, Steve McQueen, Mike Nichols, Nick Nolte, Tatum O'Neal, Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Barbra Streisand, Gore Vidal, and Tuesday Weld, among others.

Well!

She was a character, but she had her blind spots, like persuading Coppola to hire Ryan O Neal to play Michael Corleone (she thought O'Neill was some great thespian who never got his due) or telling Lucie Arnaz to turn down Poltergeist and do some low budget comedy that flopped.

Then her extreme obsession with Streisand, which of course ended when she told Streisand that she shouldn't waste her time doing Yentl.

I’m fascinated with Hollywood of the 70s. Some of the greatest, most profitable films ever; and she was part of it. Gossip, love ya mean it, stay pretty, fake air kissing, phony relationships, Malibu, Beverly Hills, Cannes. What a time to be alive in the entertainment business.

R18 R19 we had a thread but it didn’t go far

Whatever happened to Sue Mengers?

"buoyant, witty writing of Mr. Logan (“Red”), the focused direction of Joe Mantello and above all to Ms. Midler, who gives the most lusciously entertaining performance of the Broadway season. Dropping names as if to the rhythm of a disco beat, snapping out wisecracks like acid-tipped darts that find the sweet spot every time, proffering profanity-laden advice about how to get ahead in show business: as the frank, brassy, foul-mouthed Mengers, who died in 2011, Ms. Midler cradles a spellbound audience in the palm of her hand from first joke to last toke."

New York Times.

I'm technically not from that era since I was born in the early 1970's and all but I think the late Miss Sue was cool as ice. Her whole story is just quite something.

Jennifer Coolidge could play Sue very well in a film. I really think she could do that justice.

No one has that Sue Mengers "thing" now. She was an original who was very highly intelligent and owned that fact in a male dominated industry.

Dominic Dunne was blackballed and exiled from Hollywood for making some joke about Mengers and her fake French boyfriend. I can’t remember the details of what he said, though.

Her husband was Belgian.

He called Sue fat.

Let's face it, we all love Sue as she was a caftan originator. And did, actually, make them work.