Career
She was the third wife of actor Henry Fonda, with whom she adopted a daughter, Amy (born 1953), and the second wife of actor Richard Widmark. In 1929, her mother, a former actress turned interior decorator, married the lyricist and producer Oscar Hammerstein World War II Susan Blanchard had four siblings: a brother, Henry Jacobson, Junior. A half-brother, James Blanchard Hammerstein (1931–1999).
And two step-siblings, William and Alice Hammerstein.
Susan Blanchard studied at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Her only sibling was an older brother, né Henry Samuel Jacobson (April 27, 1926 - January 28, 1997).