Meet John Doe
1941
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While filming Tish, Peters met future husband, actor Richard Quine, with whom she also starred in her second film with MGM, Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942), alongside Van Johnson. Quine and Peters later married on November 7, 1943, at Westwood Community Church in West Los Angeles.
Late actress Susan Peters was a Hollywood icon during the late 1940s, and she married renowned filmmaker Richard Quine a year after meeting him. However, the couple's union left her husband traumatized. Find out why.
On January 1, 1945, Susan Peters and Richard Quine went duck hunting. Carla Valderrama, who wrote the book "This Was Hollywood" about stars who faded into obscurity, told Fox News that the hunt resulted in an accident that puzzles her: "No one knows what really happened except for Susan and Richard. It wasn't impossible, but it certainly leaves ...
While at MGM, Quine also appeared in Tish (1942), with Susan Peters who would later become his second wife, and For Me and My Gal (1942), playing Judy Garland's brother. Columbia borrowed him to reprise his stage role in My Sister Eileen (1942).
In the Marjorie Main vehicle Tish (1942), Susan earned a co-starring part and met actor Richard Quine on the set. Quine played her husband in the film. The couple also appeared together in the film Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942) , and married in real life in November of 1943.
According to reports, Peters and Quine went duck hunting when a rifle accidentally discharged. A bullet lodged in Peters’ spinal cord, paralyzing her from the waist down.
Richard Quine was born on 12 November 1920 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Mickey Rooney Show (1954), The Cockeyed Miracle (1946) and Strangers When We Meet (1960). He was married to Diana Balfour, Fran Jeffries, Barbara Bushman and Susan Peters.
