• Name: Jeanne Crain
• Date of Birth: May 25, 1925
• Place of Birth: Barstow, California, USA

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Biography: While in junior high school, Jeanne played the lead in a school production which set her on the path to acting. When she was in high school Jeanne was asked to take a screen test to appear in a film b...( read more )y Orson Welles. Unfortunately, she didn't get the part, but it did set her sights on being a movie actress. After her high school career, Jeanne enrolled at UCLA to study drama. At the age of 18, Jeanne won a bit part in Fox Studio's film entitled The Gang's All Here (1943) and a small contract. Her next film saw Jeanne elevated to a more substantial part in Home in Indiana (1944) the following year, which was filmed in neighboring Kentucky. The movie was an unquestionable hit. On the strength of that box-office success, Jeanne was given a raise and star billing, as Maggie Preston, in the next film of 1944, In the Meantime, Darling (1944). Unfortunately, the critics not only roasted the film, but singled out Jeanne's performance in particular. She rebounded nicely in her last film of the year, Winged Victory (1944). The audiences loved it and the film was profitable. In 1945, Jeanne was cast in State Fair (1945) as Margie Frake who travels to the fair and falls in love with a reporter played by Dana Andrews. Now, Jeanne got a bigger contract and more recognition. In 1949, Jeanne appeared in three films, A Letter to Three Wives (1949), The Fan (1949), and Pinky (1949). It was this latter film which garnered her an Oscar nomination as Best Actress for her role as Pinky Johnson, a nurse who sets up a clinic in the Deep South. She lost to Olivia de Havilland for The Heiress (1949). Jeanne left Fox after filming Vicki (1953) in 1953, with Jean Peters. She had made 23 films for the studio that started her career, but she needed a well-deserved change. As with any good artist, Jeanne wanted to expand her range instead of playing the girl-next-door types. Jeanne died of a heart attack in Santa Barbara, California, on December 14, 2003. Her husband Paul Brooks had died two months earlier.

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  She was wonderful in State Fair

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• Skyjacked (Sky Terror) (PG, 1972)
• Hot Rods to Hell (52 Miles to Terror) (Unrated, 1967)
• Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile (Nefertiti, regina del Nilo) (Unrated, 1964)
• The Fastest Gun Alive (Unrated, 1956)
• Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (Unrated, 1955)
• Man Without a Star (Unrated, 1955)
• Vicki (Unrated, 1953)
• Dangerous Crossing (Unrated, 1953)
• O. Henry's Full House (Unrated, 1952)
• Belles on Their Toes (Unrated, 1952)

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