Sandra Kohner

By the time she was 23, Susan Kohner had won two Golden Globes and received an Academy Award nomination for supporting actress for her scene-stealing performance in the classic 1959 melodrama "Imitation of Life." But just five years later, she gave up her movie career and never looked back. "I didn't have the passion anymore," says Kohner, 67. "The passion went into another direction and I never missed it. I think part of it was the man I married [the late John Weitz].

By the time she was 23, Susan Kohner had won two Golden Globes and received an Academy Award nomination for supporting actress for her scene-stealing performance in the classic 1959 melodrama "Imitation of Life." But just five years later, she gave up her movie career and never looked back. "I didn't have the passion anymore," says Kohner, 67. "The passion went into another direction and I never missed it. I think part of it was the man I married [the late John Weitz].