Jean Parker
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean Parker (born Lois Mae Green; August 11, 1915 – November 30, 2005) was an American film and stage actress. She landed her first screen test while still in high school. She acted opposite such well-known actors as Katharine Hepburn, Robert Donat, Edward G. Robinson, Randolph Scott, and Laurel and Hardy. She was married four times and had one son, Robert Lowery Hanks. Parker appeared in 70 movies from 1932 through 1966. In 1932, she posed as a flower girl and living poster in a float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, where she was seen by Ida Koverman, secretary to MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer. The following day the studio called her on the phone and invited her for a screen test. Parker's film debut came in Divorce in the Family (1932). She had a successful career at MGM, RKO and Columbia including roles in such films as Little Women, Lady for a Day, Gabriel Over the White House, Limehouse Blues, The Ghost Goes West, and Rasputin and the Empress. In 1939, she starred opposite Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in RKO's The Flying Deuces. Parker remained active in film throughout the 1940s, playing opposite Lon Chaney in Dead Man's Eyes, and a variety of other films. During World War II, she toured many of the veteran hospitals throughout the U.S. and performed on radio. In the 1950s, Parker co-starred opposite Edward G. Robinson in Black Tuesday; had a small but effective role in The Gunfighter, and appeared in A Lawless Street (1955). Her last film appearance was Apache Uprising (1966). Parker also appeared on Broadway. In 1949, she replaced Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday on Broadway and enjoyed a successful run in this classic. She appeared on Broadway opposite Bert Lahr in the play Burlesque. She did summer stock in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, toured in the play Candlelight and Loco, and performed on stage in other professional productions. In 1954, Parker played the role of "Cattle Kate Watson of Wyoming" in an episode of the syndicated television series Stories of the Century, the first western program to win an Emmy Award. The series starred and was narrated by Jim Davis. Later in her career and life, Parker continued a successful stint on the West Coast theatre circuit and worked as an acting coach. At age 83, Parker moved into the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, where she died of a stroke on November 30, 2005, at the age of 90. She was survived by her son, Robert, and granddaughters Katie and Nora Hanks. She was buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills.
The Flying Deuces
as GeorgetteOllie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully...
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Little Women
as BethLittle Women is a coming-of-age drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy....
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The Gunfighter
as MollyThe fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
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Rasputin and the Empress
as Princess Maria (uncredited)The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the...
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Lady for a Day
as LouiseNever-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise,...
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A Lawless Street
as Cora DeanA Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out...
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No Hands on the Clock
as Mrs. Louise CampbellA wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
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Beyond Tomorrow
as Jean LawrenceThe ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help...
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Zenobia
as Mary TibbettA modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming...
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The Ghost Goes West
as Peggy MartinDonald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor,...
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Black Tuesday
as Hatti CombestVicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to...
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Lady in the Death House
as Mary Kirk LoganAs a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got...
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Caravan
as TimkaA countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine...
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'Little Women' (archive footage) (uncredited)Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O....
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Apache Uprising
as Mrs. HawksVarious stage coach passengers and outlaws travelling through Indian country are forced to join...
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Those Redheads from Seattle
as LizA woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.
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Operator 13
as EleanorAmerican Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen,...
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Hello, Annapolis
as Doris HenleyRivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress...
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Oh, What a Night!
as ValerieAn international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his neice.
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Made on Broadway
as AdeleA satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway...
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Wrecking Crew
as Peggy StarrFollows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a...
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The Texas Rangers
as Amanda BaileyTwo down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned...
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Limehouse Blues
as ToniFresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the...
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Gabriel Over the White House
as Alice BronsonA political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a...
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Princess O'Hara
as Princess O'HaraWhen King's beloved horse dies, Princess tries to purchase a new nag, and that's how she...
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Romance of the Redwoods
as June MartinJune Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed...
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Bluebeard
as LucilleYoung female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave...
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Two Alone
as MazieMazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works....
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The Parson and the Outlaw
as Sarah JonesBilly the Kid fakes his own death at the hands of Pat Garret, but is forced to come out of...
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Penitentiary
as Elizabeth MathewsThe story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he...
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One Body Too Many
as Carol DunlapAn insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.
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Tomorrow We Live
as Julie BronsonJulie Bronson, whose father operates a desert cafe, is attracting the unwanted attention of a...
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A Wicked Woman
as Rosanne Stroud, aka Rosanne TriceA woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's...
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She Married a Cop
as Linda FayThis comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation...
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Torpedo Boat
as Grace HolmanRichard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a...
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The Navy Way
as Ellen SayreThe experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
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Sequoia
as Toni MartinA wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
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Lazy River
as Sarah LescalleEx-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
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Minesweeper
as Mary SmithA naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War...
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The Girl from Alaska
as Mary 'Pete' McCoyA would-be prospector becomes involved in a plot to deceive an old prospector of his cache, but...
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Storm at Daybreak
as DanitzaSarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the...
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Romance of the Limberlost
as LaurieAn orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost by her aunt, who hates her because the girl's...
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Toughest Man in Arizona
as DellaMarshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the...
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Murder in the Fleet
as Betty LansingA traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to...
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The Arkansas Traveler
as Judy AllenThe Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily...
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Dead Man's Eyes
as Heather HaydenArtist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's...
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Flying Blind
as Shirley BrooksA spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner...
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Have a Heart
as Sally MooreSally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined...
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
as EloiseA murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
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I Live on Danger
as Susan RichardsA cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.
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Flight at Midnight
as Maxine ScottSpinner McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of...
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Parents on Trial
as Susan WesleyAccording to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory...
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Roar of the Press
as Alice WilliamsWhile on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
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High Explosive
as Connie BakerMike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz"...
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Divorce In The Family
as Miss Lucile SmIthA child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932...
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Life Begins with Love
as Carole MartinA spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement,...
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Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets...
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Power Dive
as Carol BlakeThe story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary...
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Adventures of Kitty O'Day
as Kitty O'DayA telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.
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You Can't Buy Everything
as Elizabeth 'Beth' Burton BellA scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
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Alaska Highway
as Ann CoswellPop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska...
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The Farmer in the Dell
as Adie BoyerAn Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.
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The Pittsburgh Kid
as Patricia MalloryUnable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the...
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Cargo of Love
as DeniseA young woman answering an ad for a traveling companion winds up drugged, kidnapped and in the...
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Knights of the Range
as Holly RippleRussell Hayden, taking a break from playing Hopalong Cassidy pictures, stars as Renn Frayne, a...
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Hi, Neighbor
as Dorothy GreenfieldA financially strapped college is transformed into a summer holiday resort with the help of...
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Rolling Home
as Frances CrawfordAn elderly rodeo rider, his young grandson and their injured horse help transform the lives of...
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The Traitor Within
as Molly BettsIn this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who...
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Son of the Navy
as Stevie MooreA runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
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The Deerslayer
as Judith HutterDeerslayer, a white man who was brought up by the Mohicans, helps his old tribe when the Hurons...
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Young America Flies
as JaneWorld War II propaganda film from Warner Brothers.
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The Barrier
as Necia GaleGale, a store owner, lives in an Alaskan village with his grown ward, Necia, whom he had rescued...
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What Price Innocence?
as Ruth HarperA young woman has to pay the price for fooling around with men.
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Matinee Theater
as uncreditedMatinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of...
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Stories of the Century
as Ella Watson aka Cattle KateStories of the Century is a 39-episode Western television series starring Jim Davis that ran in...
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Suspense
as uncreditedSuspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to...
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