Sue Mengers

Sue Mengers (September 2, c. 1932 — October 15, 2011) was a talent agent to many significant filmmakers and actors of the New Hollywood generation of the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. Mengers was born in Hamburg, Germany. Several years of birth have been published, and while she was living, reporters stated "she won't say just when" she was born. Around 1938, she arrived in the United States with her parents. Neither of her Jewish parents spoke English at the time. Settling in Utica, New York, her father became a traveling salesman. After he committed suicide in a hotel in Times Square, Mengers relocated to The Bronx with her mother, who took a job as a bookkeeper. Mengers' entry into the talent agency business was in 1955 as a...