Suzanne Grossmann (December 21, 1937 – August 19, 2010) was a Swiss-American

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and

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, born in

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'', August 25, 2010; page AA6. She later lived and studied in Brazil, Canada, and the USA. Having first obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree at McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec, Grossmann was among the first graduates of the National Theatre School of Canada in 1963. Grossmann made her Broadway debut in

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's ''The Lion in Winter'', playing Alais. In 1968 she was Roxane to Robert Symonds' Cyrano in a revival of ''Cyrano de Bergerac''. A revival of George Kelly's ''The Show-Off'', starring

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, followed later that year, and, in 1970, she played Sybil Chase in ''Private Lives'' opposite the Elyot and Amanda of Brian Bedford and Tammy Grimes. Soon after, she turned her talents to writing for stage and television. With

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, a fellow actor, she translated and adapted Georges Feydeau's farce ''There's One in Every Marriage'' for the Broadway stage in 1971, followed by Feydeau's ''Chemin de Fer''. As a screenwriter for television, she wrote more than 100 episodes for the popular, long-running television soap opera '' Ryan's Hope''.

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''Variety'' obituary
August 24, 2010, Stage Actress, scribe Grossmann dies

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