SUSAN GRANGER

MOVIE AND DRAMA CRITIC

FEBRUARY 14TH

 

Susan Granger, internationally known movie and drama critic, will speak to the Y's Men of Westport/Weston. Her topic is “Susan Granger's Hollywood ” and will include her inside scoop on the upcoming Academy Awards. The meeting begins at 10AM at the Saugatuck Congregational Church, 245 Post Road East .

Susan Granger is a product of Hollywood . She was born into a film-business family and raised in Hollywood . Her natural father, S. Sylvan Simon, headed production at Columbia Pictures; her adoptive father Armand Deutsch, produced at MGM.

As a child, she appeared in movies with Abbott & Costello, Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Margaret O'Brien and Lassie. She attended Mills College , studied journalism with Pierre Salinger, and graduated with highest honors in journalism with a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania .

Susan Granger brings an experienced and unique perspective to the field of communication. For more than 25 years, Susan has been on radio and television either as an anchorwoman and internationally syndicated movie/drama critic. Her celebrity interviews and articles are published in newspapers and magazines around the world including Redbook, Family Circle, Ladies Home Journal, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, Working Women and the New York Times, as well as Paris Match, Cinema Magazine (France), Ici (Paris), Tele Sep Jour, L'Office, Homme, Gala (Germany), Set (Brazil), Petra (Germany), Gentile (Italy), Eve (Hong Kong), News Limited Newspapers (Australia) and other international Publications.

For more information about the Y's Men, contact Bill Meyer, Membership Chairman at 226-3704 or Bob Fatherley, President at 454-3653 or visit their website: www.ysmenwestportweston