Sam and SF

Susanna with her rescuer 'Sam.'

Sam with treasured memorabilia

Sam Lieberman was a mildly retarded fellow from Brooklyn who helped Susanna off the street (out of her car). They lived together for a time in his two-room apartment of which Susanna described as filthy, hardly any furniture and remarkably covered from wall to floor with old movie magazines, clippings, and yesteryear movie star photos. The Opel-Kadette was found soon thereafter with windows broken and all four tires flattened on a Hollywood side street, biting the dust, as seen in Enquirer photo. Before long they would share a kinder place in North Hollywood, as in symbiotically platonic.

Several years after these photos were taken, Susanna would care for Sam as he lost his sight and life to a brain tumor. In the same apartment her son Philip lapsed into fatal hepatic-coma two years prior.