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Born: August 27th, 1943 in New York.
Real Name: Susan Ker Weld
Husband(s): Claude Hartz
Dudley Moore (1980 - 1985)
Pinchas Zukerman

Susan Ker Weld was born on Friday, August 27th 1943 in New York City. When her father, Lathrop Motley Weld, died three years later at the age of 49, the cute little girl, whose name by then had somehow been transmogrified into "Tuesday", took over the role of the family breadwinner: Tuesday became a successful child model, posing for advertisements and mail order catalogs. Her work and the burden of responsibility estranged her from her mother Aileen and her two elder siblings and catapulted the preteen girl into adulthood. Nine years old, she suffered a nervous breakdown, at ten she started heavy drinking. One year later, Tuesday began to have love affairs, and at the age of twelve she tried to commit suicide. In 1956 Tuesday Weld debuted in the low-budget exploitation movie "Rock, Rock, Rock" and decided to become an actress. After numerous TV appearances in New York she went to Hollywood in 1958 and was cast for "Rally Round the Flag, Boys", something of a breakthrough for her. Over the next years, Tuesday became Hollywood's queen of teen, playing chiefly precocious sex kittens. Her wild private life added to the entertainment of her fans. The critics acknowledged her talent, the directors approved of her professionalism, and in the late sixties Tuesday even managed to grow out of her child woman image and find more demanding roles - she had been sweet little sixteen for about sixteen years. However, Tuesday Weld didn't achieve first-magnitude stardom. Maybe she was just unlucky with her selection of jobs (she turned down "Lolita", "Bonnie and Clyde", "True Grit", "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" &&&), maybe her independence-loving mind made her instinctively shrink back from the restraints of superstardom. So Tuesday Weld kept on performing well in films which had either not much flair or not much success. From the mid-seventies on, she focused more and more on made-for-TV movies. Ironically, the best (Once Upon a Time in America) and the most successful film (Falling Down) that featured Tuesday Weld came only after her career was already petering out.

Wild in The Country

As Noreen, Tuesday appeared with Elvis in Wild In The Country. He has the choice of Millie Perkins, Hope Lange, or Tuesday! Again, Elvis in a quandary. Tuesday plays the wild young cousin with an illegitimate baby and a daddy who says things like, "That is one eventuality that will not eventuate!" Tuesday gets lines like, "Daddy, you can't peddle me like you do your no-good bellywash!" On the other hand, she gets to have Elvis sing "In My Way" to her. All Millie Perkins gets is "I Slipped, I Stumbled, I Fell"...

Filmography

•Investigating Sex (2001) .... Sasha
•Chelsea Walls (2001) .... Greta ... aka Chelsea Hotel (2001)
•Feeling Minnesota (1996) .... Norma Clayton
•Falling Down (1993) .... Amanda Prendergast ... aka Chute libre (1993/II) (France)
•Heartbreak Hotel (1988) .... Marie Wolfe
•Something in Common (1986) (TV) .... Shelly Grant
•Circle of Violence: A Family Drama (1986) (TV) .... Georgia Benfield ... aka Circle of Violence (1986) (TV)
•Scorned and Swindled (1984) (TV) .... Sharon Clark
•Once Upon a Time in America (1984) .... Carol ... aka C'era una volta in America (1984) (Italy)
•Winter of Our Discontent, The (1983) (TV) .... Margie Young-Hunt ... aka John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent (1983) (TV)
•Rainmaker, The (1982) (TV) .... Lizzie
•Author! Author! (1982) .... Gloria
•Thief (1981) .... Jessie ... aka Violent Streets (1981)
•Madame X (1981) (TV) .... Holly Richardson
•Serial (1980) .... Kate Linville Holroyd
•Mother and Daughter: The Loving War (1980) (TV)
•Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) .... Marge Converse ... aka Dog Soldiers (1978)
•Question of Guilt, A (1978) (TV) .... Doris Winters
•Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) .... Katherine
•F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1976) (TV) .... Zelda Fitzgerald
•Reflections of Murder (1974) (TV) .... Vicky
•Play It As It Lays (1972) .... Maria Wyeth
•Safe Place, A (1971) .... Susan/Noah
•I Walk the Line (1970) .... Alma McCain
•Pretty Poison (1968) .... Sue Ann Stepanek
•Crucible, The (1967) (TV) .... Abigail 'Abby' Williams
•Lord Love a Duck (1966) .... Barbara Ann Greene
•Cincinnati Kid, The (1965) .... Christian Rudd
•I'll Take Sweden (1965) .... JoJo Holcomb
•Soldier in the Rain (1963) .... Bobby Jo Pepperdine
•Bachelor Flat (1961) .... Libby Bushmill aka Miss Smith
•Private Lives of Adam and Eve, The (1961) .... Vangie Harper
•Wild in the Country (1961) .... Mrs. Noreen Martin
•Return to Peyton Place (1961) .... Selena Cross
•Because They're Young (1960) .... Anne Gregor
•High Time (1960) .... Joy Elder
•Sex Kittens Go to College (1960) .... Jody ... aka Beauty and the Robot, The (1960) ... aka Teacher Versus Sexpot (1960)
•Five Pennies, The (1959) .... Dorothy Nichols, age 12 to 14
•"Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The" (1959) TV Series .... Thalia Menninger (1959-1960)
•Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) .... Comfort Goodpasture
•Rock, Rock, Rock (1956) .... Dori
•Wrong Man, The (1956) (uncredited) .... Giggly Girl

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