Jeanne Crain

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Jeanne Crain (1945)

Jeanne Crain (born May 25, 1925 in Barstow , California , † December 14, 2003 in Santa Barbara , California) was an American actress who appeared in almost 60 film and television productions between 1943 and 1972.

Life

Crain was the daughter of an English teacher and a housewife. The family moved to Los Angeles shortly after she was born , where her father was supposed to teach at a new school. When she was voted Miss PanPacific, 18-year-old Jeanne was allowed to make test shoots for a film with Orson Welles in Hollywood . Although she didn't get the role, she decided to become an actress. A year later, in 1944, she played her first leading role in the adventure drama At Home in Indiana by Henry Hathaway and in the same year in the war film Winged Victory by George Cukor . The musical Fair of Love , in which she appears as partner of Dana Andrews , and the melodrama Mortal Sin , where she is suspected of murder as the sister of Gene Tierney , established her as a star at 20th Century Fox in 1945 . At her film studio only sex symbol Betty Grable received more fan mail than Crain. Crain was the mother of seven children born between 1947 and 1965. Two of them died before their mother.

In the following years, the studio used Crain even more often in cheerful films as the pretty "girl next door". She was able to show her talent as a dramatic actress in the film Pinky by Elia Kazan in 1949 , where she plays a young woman who, in a racist society, withholds her African American origins. For this role, she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress the following year . Also in 1949 she achieved another success with the lead role in the romantic drama A Letter to Three Women by Joseph L. Mankiewicz . Her roles varied greatly in the following years, she played the teenage daughter of Myrna Loy in the comedy Im Dozen Cheaper (1950) and appeared as a suicidal patient - and later lover - of Cary Grant in the Curt Goetz film adaptation People Will Talk ( 1951).

From the mid-1950s, she played mainly in television productions. Her last role dates back to 1972, when she took on a supporting role in the hell strip. In retirement, she and her husband ran two ranches, among other things.

Crain married actor Paul Brooks in 1946 and was married to him until his death in October 2003. She herself died of a heart attack just two months later at the age of 78. Crain was the mother of seven children born between 1947 and 1965. Two of them died before their mother.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Jeanne Crain  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bob Thomas: Jeanne Crain, 78; Her Role in 'Pinky' Earned Oscar Nomination . In: Los Angeles Times . December 15, 2003, ISSN  0458-3035 ( latimes.com [accessed February 22, 2018]).
  2. ^ Jeanne Crain | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved February 22, 2018 .
  3. ^ Bob Thomas: Jeanne Crain, 78; Her Role in 'Pinky' Earned Oscar Nomination . In: Los Angeles Times . December 15, 2003, ISSN  0458-3035 ( latimes.com [accessed February 22, 2018]).
  4. ^ Bob Thomas: Jeanne Crain, 78; Her Role in 'Pinky' Earned Oscar Nomination . In: Los Angeles Times . December 15, 2003, ISSN  0458-3035 ( latimes.com [accessed February 22, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Crain, Jeanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Barstow , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 2003
Place of death Santa Barbara , California , United States