Jacqueline White

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Jacqueline White (born November 27, 1922 in Beverly Hills , California ) is an American actress who participated in a total of 26 films from 1942 to 1952. She played her best-known roles in the film noirs Im Kreuzfeuer and Um A Hair's Width .

Life

Jacqueline White was born in Beverly Hills on November 27, 1922. She attended the University of California at Los Angeles , where she took acting classes . At a performance of the play Ah, Wilderness! White was discovered by a casting director and signed after several test recordings. She had her first small film appearance in 1942 in Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant .

After several appearances as an extra, White received her first major film roles in Swing Shift Maisie in 1943 and in Song of Russia the following year . In the following years she was seen in several supporting roles in productions of important film studios, including 1947 as Mary Mitchell in the film noir Im Kreuzfeuer alongside Robert Young and Robert Mitchum . She also played the main female role in several dozen smaller productions and so-called B-movies . In 1943 she took on the female lead as Peggy Parker in the Laurel and Hardy film The Horror of All Spies . After White had been under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer since 1942 , she switched to RKO Pictures in 1946 , for which she remained active until the end of her film career. Her last small film role for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer White played in the same year as a dancer in the music film The Harvey Girls , but remained unnamed in the credits.

After her marriage to Bruce Anderson in November 1948, White moved to Wyoming in 1950 , where her husband entered the oil business. In 1952, however, she returned to Los Angeles for the birth of her first child , where she was offered a leading role in the film noir by a hair's breadth . It would be her last film and one of her most famous roles at the same time. She then ended her acting career after exactly ten years and a total of 26 films. The marriage with Anderson lasted until his death in February 2001. The couple had five children.

Jacqueline White occasionally appears as a star guest at film festivals , such as the 2013 TCM Film Festival .

Filmography

literature

  • Boyd Magers, Michael G. Fitzgerald: Westerns Women: Interviews with 50 Leading Ladies of Movie and Television Westerns from the 1930s to the 1960s . McFarland, 2004, ISBN 0786420286

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Mike Fitzgerald: An Interview With Jacqueline White. Retrieved August 26, 2017 .
  2. JACQUELINE WHITE. Retrieved August 10, 2016 .