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Sue Ane Langdon is a retired American actress. She began her performing career singing at Radio City Music Hall and acting in stage productions.
In the mid-1960s she appeared in the Broadway musical The Apple Tree, which starred Alan Alda. In 1976, she appeared in Hello Dolly at The Little Theatre on the Square.
She was featured in many comedies as well as the occasional dramatic film. She appeared in a pair of Elvis Presley movies, Roustabout and Frankie and Johnny. Her starring role on Arnie won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Television.
Her film debut came in The Great Impostor, which starred Tony Curtis. Langdon went on to have leading roles in films such as The Rounders, A Guide for the Married Man, A Man Called Dagger, The Cheyenne Social Club, A Fine Madness which led to her posing nude for Playboy magazine. In that same year of 1966, United Artists Pictures released Frankie and Johnny in which Langdon co-starred along with Elvis Presley, Donna Douglas and Harry Morgan.
Langdon was the third actress to play Alice Kramden in Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners sketches and shows, preceded by Pert Kelton and Audrey Meadows and followed by Sheila MacRae and Meadows again. Langdon shared a Life magazine cover with Gleason, but played the role only briefly in the 1960s version, during the American Scene Magazine era, before MacRae took the role over for the color hour-long musical versions.
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