Fun Fact About Agent Sue Mengers
In the LA Times obit of Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers (pictured), I learned something: “Mengers left William Morris in 1963 when Tom Korman, a former Baum & Newborn colleague, invited her to become a partner in his agency. Her first client was actress Julie Harris, an accomplished Broadway star who was interested in appearing in the TV western “Bonanza.” Mengers contacted the producer, who commissioned a specially written episode for Harris.” Excuse me, LA Times, but by 1963 Miss Harris was not merely a Broadway star. She got an Oscar nomination for her screen debut for Crissakes! For “The Member of the Wedding,” in 1952. Miss Harris, age 85, is still whinnying with us. She resides in Chatham, on Cape Cod.
