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Dec 15, 2003 · Jeanne Crain was born in Barstow. Nine months later, her family moved to Los Angeles, where her father became head of the English department at Inglewood High School. A beautiful girl, she began ...
As she grew older, Crain, her beautiful figure long gone, developed a severe and debilitating alcohol problem. Two months after the death of Paul Brooks, who had become a successful businessman and manufacturer of missile parts, Jeanne Crain suffered a fatal heart attack at age 78 in December 2003 in Santa Barbara, California.
Biography. With her natural beauty and unaffected charm, the young Jeanne Crain was a breath of fresh air in 20th Century-Fox films of the 1940s. Her looks and manner became somewhat brittle as she matured, but she remained a top leading lady at Fox into the early '50s. The high point of her career was an Oscar® nomination as Best Actress for ...
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Karriere. Crain blev lanceret som den venlige, søde, glade og rare middelklasse pige i amerikanske film i 1940'erne. Hun medvirkede i flere romantiske komedie r, herunder i rollen som en sort pige, der anses hvid i Elia Kazan s film Pinky. For sin præstation i Pinky blev hun nomineret til en Oscar for bedste kvindelige hovedrolle .
Jeanne Crain. Highest Rated: 100% A Letter to Three Wives (1949) Lowest Rated: 67% Pinky (1949) Birthday: May 25, 1925. Birthplace: Barstow, California, USA. Sweet, fresh-faced and pretty former ...
Jeanne Crain, whose exquisite features and wholesome image graced the films of the 1940s and 1950s, was first discovered by Orson Welles, while she was touring RKO Studios with her high school class. Welles, who at the time was casting his film The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), had the 15-year-old tested for the role of Lucy but seeing the results felt that she was too immature and did not project well on the screen.
