Eleanor Parker

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Eleanor Jean Parker (born June 26, 1922 in Cedarville , Ohio - † December 9, 2013 in Palm Springs , California ) was an American actress . Because of her versatility as a character actress, she has been dubbed "the woman with a thousand faces" by the media.

Life

Parker was born in 1922 to a math teacher in Cedarville, Ohio. After performing in school plays as a child, she decided to move to Massachusetts to study acting at the Rice Summer Theater on Martha's Vineyard . She then moved to California, where she continued her acting training at the Pasadena Playhouse . She was discovered by film scouts at both theaters, but she refused the first camera tests in order to initially complete her training. She later got a contract with Warner Brothers .

She made her film debut in Raoul Walsh's His Last Command in 1941 , but her scenes were cut out in post-production. In the course of her career, she was nominated three times for the Oscar for best actress: as an inmate in the film Women's Prison (1950), as the wife of Kirk Douglas in Police Station 21 (1951) and as a sick opera singer in Interrupted Melody (1955). She was also honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her performance . From the 1960s on, she played mostly on television. From 1970 she was mainly seen in series such as Love Boat (1979 and 1982) and Hotel (1983). She last appeared in theaters in 1979 in Hot Hell Acapulco alongside Farrah Fawcett and Charles Grodin . Parker's last role on television was in 1991 in The Scream of Jennifer Ashford . In total she was seen in around 80 productions.

Parker was married four times. Her first husband was Fred L. Losse, who was a Navy dentist and whom she met while filming Ambassador to Moscow (1943). The marriage lasted only 21 months. From 1946 to 1953 she was married to the film producer Bert E. Friedlob. They had three children together. Parker's third husband was the artist Paul Clemens from 1954 to 1965, with whom she had a son. In 1966 she married the businessman Raymond N. Hirsch, who died in 2001.

Filmography (selection)

Parker's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Awards

  • 1950: Coppa Volpi for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Women's Prison
  • 1951: Oscar nomination for Best Actress for Women's Prison
  • 1952: Oscar nomination for Best Actress for Police Station 21
  • 1956: Oscar nomination for Best Actress for Interrupted Melody

Web links

Commons : Eleanor Parker  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Anita Gates: Eleanor Parker, 91, Dies; Oscar Nominee Was in 'Sound of Music' . In: The New York Times , December 9, 2013.
  2. ^ Obituary on Welt.de
  3. ↑ https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/kino/id_66939078/eleanor-parker-gestorben-sie-war-fuer-drei-oscars-nominiert.html Death report on T-Online.de
  4. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079966/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_11 Film entry in the IMDB.com
personal data
SURNAME Parker, Eleanor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parker, Eleanor Jean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Cedarville, Ohio
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2013
Place of death Palm Springs