Encyclopedia > Jeanne Crain

  Article Content

Jeanne Crain

Jeanne Crain (born May 25, 1932) is an American actress. Born in Barstow, California, she moved to Los Angeles as a young child. While still in high school, she she was asked to make a screen test[?] opposite Orson Welles. She did not get the part, but at the age of 18, she appeared in a bit part in the movie The Gang's All Here[?].

In 1943 she starred in Home in Indiana[?], and in 1944 in In the Meantime, Darling[?]. Her acting in the latter film was critically panned, but she rebounded in the hit Winged Victory[?] in the same year. In 1945 she starred in State Fair, and in 1949 in three films, A Letter to Three Wives, The Fan[?] and Pinky, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Roles became fewer in the 1950s as Crain went into semi-retirement to raise a family. Her last role was in Skyjacked[?] in 1972.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Grateful Dead

... until 1995. Bruce Hornsby[?] also played on the grand piano on and off for some of the tours in the early 1990s. Touring was the hallmark of the Grateful Dead. With the ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 47 ms