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Susan Cabot was an actress of the 1950s and early 1960s who is probably better remembered for her sad off-screen life than for her on-screen roles. She worked for Universal in the 1950s, appearing in many forgettable westerns and Arabian-themed movies, and at the end of the 1950s, she signed with Roger Corman, and she is best remembered for playing the monster in 1959's "The Wasp Woman". But she had a turbulent childhood, growing up in foster homes, and she had a much publicized affair with King Hussein, but that ended when he discovered she was Jewish (she was born Harriet Schapiro). She married her second husband in 1968, had a son who was born with dwarfism due to a defective pituitary gland, and divorced her husband in 1983. To "cure" her son of dwarfism, she enrolled him into a program for an experimental growth hormone made from the pituitary glands of corpses, and after 15 years, he was only slightly under average height. In her later years, Cabot's psychologist found her so troubled and ill that the sessions became "emotionally draining". Cabot lived alone with her son after the divorce, became increasingly unable to care for herself, and the interior of her home was littered with years of trash, and spoiled food. On December 10th, 1968, emergency services was called to the home to find Cabot bludgeoned to death. She was 59. Her son initially claimed a Latino ninja had killed his mother, but later confessed to killing her in self-defense when she attacked him with a scalpel. His defense in court was not guilty by reason of insanity because an unusually high percentage of the recipients of the experimental growth hormone ended up with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare, incurable brain disease (usually seen in those who eat infected cow meat). It was also revealed that Cabot herself was taking the drug in an attempt to make herself look younger. In the end, her son was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, and was sentenced to three year's probation.

Important Added Info: Note that this is a negative that was in the camera when the photographer shot the photo. We have taken a scan of the negative as it appears, and also a special scan of the negative that shows the "positive image". We will provide the winning bidder of this auction with that positive image scan. These often (but not always) have retouching on the emulsion side, and negative numbers written in India ink on the front. Depending on the studio some 8x10 negatives may be trimmed or have numbers or information embedded into the sides of the negative. Many smaller format camera original negatives do not have retouching on them or numbers due to their smaller size. 8x10, 5x7 and 4x5 negatives were primarily the sizes used in the 1920s through the 1940s. 2 1/4" Rollei negatives and 35mm negatives became an industry standard in the 1950s and beyond until the digital revolution in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

This is a very special auction of 710 extremely rare negatives and transparencies of various sizes, plus lots of sets of 35mm slides. EVERY single one in this auction is either "studio issued" (meaning it was created by the studio and sent to theaters and movie outlets), OR it is a "camera original" (meaning it was the actual negative that was in the camera when the photographer took the picture). Every auction clearly identifies which they are, and there are no items being auctioned that are not either "studio issue" or "camera originals". We have divided them by type and size.

Also note that this auction is for one or more negatives, and every one of the 185 auctions of negatives we are currently running have been scanned expertly. This auction contains the scan(s) of the negatives in this auction, and they have been scanned so that you see a "positive" image (and we have added an "eMoviePoster.com" watermark over it), but the auction is for the actual negative. The winner of this auction and ONLY the winner of this auction will, upon request, be sent the UNWATERMARKED scan(s) of the negative(s) in this auction, which will both save them the time and expense of scanning them themselves, and also allow them to make positive prints of the items they purchased, if they desire.

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