Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Eve’s Bayou, and Steel Magnolias star had an extensive career spanning nine decades that began in the southern city.
Sutton initially began performing in the theater. She appeared in the plays The Last Madam, Native Tongues, and A Raisin in the Sun before pivoting to television in 1974.
She loved New Orleans so much that she refused to relocate for her career. She explained her choice to her friend and colleague Tommye Myrick in a 2019 interview. “When everyone else left, I never had a desire to leave New Orleans.
I never wanted to go to L.A. or New York,” she reportedly said.“In those places, there were hundreds of people trying to do the same things I wanted to do.
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