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Jeanne Crain

Actress / Television Actress / Film Actress | * 05/25/1925 († 78, 12/14/2003) | Barstow, California (United States of America (USA))
Jeanne Elizabeth Crain (May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003) was an American actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her title role in Pinky (1949). She also starred in the films In the Meantime, Darling (1944), State Fair (1945), Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Centennial Summer (1946), Margie (1946), Apartment for Peggy (1948), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), People Will Talk (1951), ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

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Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an ap ...

Apartment for Peggy

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1948 | 3.8/5 | 1h 36min
Drama
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Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white w ...

Pinky

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1949 | 3.8/5 | 1h 42min
Drama
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A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one. ...

A Letter to Three Wives

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1949 | 3.6/5 | 1h 43min
Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy
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During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat ...

State Fair

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1945 | 3.4/5 | 1h 40min
Music, Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Jeanne Crain

Academy Award for Best Actress
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Movies with Jeanne Crain as Actress(44)

as Mrs. Clara Shaw1972 Skyjacked
as Fanny Pierce1971 The Night God Screamed
as Self (archival footage)1968 The Movie Orgy
as Peg Phillips1967 Hot Rods to Hell
as herself1963 Monsters and Madonnas: The World of William Mortensen
as herself1963 Hollywood Without Make-Up
as Helen1962 Invasion 1700
as Claudia Procula1962 Pontius Pilate
as Nefertiti1961 Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
as Linda Foster1961 Twenty Plus Two
as Peggy Shannon1961 Madison Avenue
as Laura Riley1960 Guns of the Timberland
as Rose Smith1959 Meet Me in St. Louis
as Letty Page1957 The Joker Is Wild
as Diane Blane1957 The Tattered Dress
as Dora Temple1956 The Fastest Gun Alive
as Liza McClure1955 The Second Greatest Sex
as Connie Jones / Mitzi Jones1955 Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
as Reed Bowman1955 Man Without a Star
as Marian Taylor1954 Duel in the Jungle
as Jill Lynn1953 Vicki
as Ruth Stanton Bowman1953 Dangerous Crossing
as Linda Culligan1953 City of Bad Men
as Ann Gilbreth1952 Belles on Their Toes
as Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")1952 O. Henry's Full House
as Liz Erickson1951 Take Care of My Little Girl
as Deborah Higgins1951 People Will Talk
as Kitty Bennett1951 The Model and the Marriage Broker
as Herself (uncredited)1950 I'll Get By
as Ann Gilbreth1950 Cheaper by the Dozen
as Patricia "Pinky" Johnson1949 Pinky
as Lady Margaret 'Meg' Windermere1949 The Fan
as Deborah Bishop1949 A Letter to Three Wives
as Peggy Mayhew1948 You Were Meant for Me
as Peggy Taylor1948 Apartment for Peggy
as Julia Rogers1946 Centennial Summer
as Marjorie "Margie" MacDuff1946 Margie
as Margy Frake1945 State Fair
as Self - Pinup Girl1945 The All-Star Bond Rally
as Ruth Berent1945 Leave Her to Heaven
as Helen1944 Winged Victory
as Charlotte 'Char' Bruce1944 Home in Indiana
as Margaret 'Maggie' Preston1944 In the Meantime, Darling
as Chorus Girl / Pool Party Guest (uncredited)1943 The Gang's All Here

TV Shows/Series with Jeanne Crain as Actress(11)

as Mrs. McKendricks1968 The Name of the Game
as Amy Booth1963 Burke's Law
as Polly Martin1963 Burke's Law
as Lorraine Turner1963 Burke's Law
as Laura Sutton1959 Riverboat
as Hope1953 GE Theater
as Marion Miller1953 GE Theater
as Ruth Elliot1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Self - Mystery Guest1950 What's My Line?
as herself1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self (archive footage)1948 The Ed Sullivan Show

Full Name: Jeanne Crain
Born: Monday, 05/25 1925 (May) in Barstow, California (United States of America (USA))
Died: Sunday, 12/14 2003 (December) in Santa Barbara (aged: 78)
Zodiac sign: Gemini (Chinese zodiac sign: Ox)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Spouses (current/former): Paul Brinkman
Jeanne Crain frequently works together with these people:
Thomas Little (17x, Crew)
Lyle R. Wheeler (16x, Crew)
Eddie Albert (13x, Actor)
Broderick Crawford (13x, Actor)
Vincent Price (12x, Actor)
Vera Miles (12x, Actress)
Kevin McCarthy (12x, Actor)
Don Taylor (12x, Crew)
Ben Nye (12x, Crew)
Keenan Wynn (11x, Actor)
Stephen McNally (11x, Actor)
John Ireland (10x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:26744, Added: 05/08/2018, Last updated: 04/12/2024