Susan Cabot born Harriet Pearl Shapiro July 9 1927 December 10 1986 was an American film stage and television actress She rose to prominence for her roles in a variety of Western films including Tomahawk 1951 The Duel at Silver Creek 1952 and Gunsmoke 1953 After severing her contract with Universal Pictures in the mid1950s Cabot returned to performing in theater in New York She subsequently returned to Hollywood in the later part of the decade and appeared in a series of films by director Roger Corman such as Sorority Girl 1957 War of the Satellites and MachineGun Kelly both 1958 She made her final film appearance in Cormans horror feature The Wasp Woman 1959 Cabot had a sevenyear affair with King Hussein of Jordan and their only child was born out of wedlock in 1964 She received 1500 in monthly support from Hussein In 1968 she married her second husband Michael Roman with whom she raised her son Timothy Scott Roman before again divorcing in 1983 Cabot spent the following two decades largely in seclusion though she did appear in offBroadway theatre in the early 1960s and made a 1970 television appearance on the series Brackens World By the 1980s Cabot was suffering from severe mental illness including depression suicidal thoughts and irrational phobias On December 10 1986 Cabots only child 22yearold Timothy Roman bludgeoned her to death in their Los Angeles home with a weightlifting bar after Cabot purportedly awoke in a panicked state and attacked him Roman who had dwarfism and suffered pituitary gland problems pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to three years probation for his matricide Description above from the Wikipedia article Susan Cabot licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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