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So I did try, I did about four films in that time, but everything about filmmaking was so hard with kids. Once I was a sole supporter of my kids, I knew I had to do this while they were little and they didn’t eat much, you know. But in those days you were one or the other.

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I had my second child on my third year, so I thought, “Oh my kids are going to be too demanding to be taking time off to try and launch a movie career.” It was a big deal then to jump from television to movies it’s not so hard now. You had started a family around that time, too. I caught up with Susan to talk about it all - acting with Rock Hudson, her hippie days, her relationship to Britney Spears, and her inspiring 34-year marriage to Dick Ebersol. Whether it was the decision to stop drinking, or the loss of her youngest son, Teddy, in a plane crash in 2004, I’ve watched her handle life’s hurdles with grace and strength. She’s one of those women who light up a room, and she has the most amazing attitude and perspective on life. I’ve been lucky enough to call Susan a friend. It was a surprising move for such a huge actress, and although Susan candidly admits to some struggles during that time, it’s a choice she’s happily stuck with for all these years. Then, at the height of her career, in her 40s Susan decided to retire, move to Connecticut, and devote herself to her five children.

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In the mid-'80s, she shined opposite Jane Curtin in the popular series about two single moms, Kate & Allie. Susan had her first starring role as Rock Hudson’s wife in the '70s crime drama McMillan & Wife. She won an Emmy Award her breakout year in 1969, and earned seven Emmy nominations throughout her career.

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Starting in the late ‘60s and continuing for the next two decades, Susan Saint James was a huge TV star.

Her off-screen pursuits have leaned towards politics, ecology and social consciousness she has been very active in the Democratic Party, and in 1974 hosted a fund-raising telethon for the party in the company of Hubert Humphrey.Yahoo Beauty editor in chief Bobbi Brown speaks with actress and friend Susan Saint James. She effectively went into retirement after the end of Kate and Allie, but she did show up on an episode of The Drew Carey Show. In 1984, she co-starred with Jane Curtin in the single-mom sitcom Kate and Allie, which lasted until 1989. The actress' comic skills grew sharper the longer she remained in the business her best film appearance was as the constitutionally sloppy lady love of vampire George Hamilton in Love at First Bite (1979). Nonetheless, she achieved worldwide popularity as Sally McMillan on the TV detective series McMillan and Wife (1971-77) in which she costarred with Rock Hudson. Possessed of a breezy, garrulous, inquisitive quality, Susan was very much an acquired taste so far as many TV critics were concerned. During this time she also had a recurring role as kooky lady jewel robber Chuck Brown on the Robert Wagner TV weekly It Takes a Thief. Susan would continue as Peggy in the subsequent TV series Name of the Game, which ran from 1968 to 1971 and which earned her an Emmy. With no previous acting experience, Susan was given a co-starring assignment as magazine researcher Peggy Maxwell in Universal's made-for-TV Fame is the Name of the Game (1966). Fresh out of the Connecticut College for Women, Susan Saint James secured work as a model, then talked her way into a contract with Universal Pictures.