Susan Dey became a superstar in the Television 1970s when she was only 18 years old. The story of “The Partridge Family” is based on a family with a musical background living in the fictitious city of San Pueblo, California, and the show aired from 1970 to 1974.
Dey even didn’t have any previous acting career, and she worked as a model at that time, suddenly an opportunity was given to her to act as an older sister Laurie in the ABC TV hit whose singing family traveled to perform in a refurbished psychedelic school bus.
She performed the role of Laurie Partridge from 1970 to 1974. She performed her character very well, as an intelligent and caring elder daughter of The Partridge Family. She was a prominent character in The Partridge Family.
The show won the hearts and minds of Americans and was liked in the U.K. It took the place of the television top spot in the U.S.
The success of the show Suffering the Cast with Dey and she suffered from an eating disorder and her weight dropped to 92 lbs, something noticed by the TV producer and he called her, to provoke her to a new healthier eating with a systematic plan that didn’t involve starving herself.
David Cassidy, who acted as Keith in the show, felt a huge amount of pressure from his rise in favor with “mass hysteria” surrounding his emotionally affected, according to his narration C’mon, Get Happy: Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus.
Cassidy became the crush of many women during the show as it ran for 4 years. He was the teen idol of millions of women and his co-star Susan Dey on the singing sensation.
Absolutely not, but they started dating after the show, the life of their love story was too short, and unexpectedly Cassidy ended it later, he revealed the private secrets of the couple but Dey was too innocent with him according to his view.
Despite the couple remaining friends after their romance ended Dey was hurt by confidential details Cassidy opened up about Dey and took an oath never to see him again, even refusing to come to a Partridge family reunion years later.
Susan even wrote her book named “Susan Dey’s Secrets on Boys, Beauty and Popularity” during her work on “The Partridge Family”.
Dey was drowned with the acting offered when the hit show was ended. She appeared in on over 20 movies that were made for 15 and 15 TV shows. She earned six Golden Globes and three Emmy award nominations.
But her role in “LA Law” as Grace Van Owen set off her winning a Golden Globe award for Best Actress. She acted as the Los Angeles County deputy district attorney, who later became a judge, for six years.
Susan told details to have turned the part of Sandy in Grease down, an unusual providence as Olivia Newton-John, who finished up playing Sandy in the hit musical, had been offered the part of Laurie in “The Partridge Family” and welcomed but was convinced not to take it by her manager, Worldation.com reports.
Susan Hallock Dey was born in 1952 and grew up in Westchester County, New York. Her mother was a nurse and her father worked as an editor for the Standard-Star in New Rochelle, New York.
Maximum 10 years before, Susan left the spotlight and it is reported that she has been living in upstate New York with her husband for over 30 years. The city where she grew up and her husband and she is spending a happy life.
After the breakup with David Cassidy, she proclaimed that her love of being in a romantic relationship with older men. She said she liked older men because they had learned exactly how to get what they wanted.
Susan Dey has always been attracted to older men.
Lenny Hirshan her first husband was an agent and 25 years older than Dey. Their marriage remained from 1976 to 1981 and they had a daughter Sara who was born in 1988.
Her second and current husband was a TV producer named Bernard Sofronski. They married in a small, private ceremony attended by family and friends in 1988.
”Bernie has helped me understand that love involves give and take. I never understood love until I met him. I seem to have more energy and I’m allowing myself to become more and more me every day. It makes life so much easier when you’re with someone you can trust,” she told Woman’s Own Magazine in 1988.
Hopefully, the lovely actress is living a happy life with her family, and after leaving the limelight she reliving some fun childhood memories.