Jeanne Crain
Jeanne Elizabeth Crain (May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003) was an American actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for playing the title role in the film 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), Man Without a Star (1955), Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955), The Fastest Gun Alive (1956), and The Joker Is Wild (1957).
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| Full name at birth | Jeanne Elizabeth Crain
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| Claim to fame | Home In Indiana (1944) .... `Char` Bruce
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| Date of birth | 25 May 1925
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| Place of birth | Barstow, California, USA
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| Date of death | 14 December 2003
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| Age | 78 (age at death)
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| Place of death | Santa Barbara, California, USA
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| Cause of death | Heart Attack
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| Resting place | Santa Barbara Cemetery
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| Occupation | Actress
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| Height | 5' 4½" (164 cm)
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| Weight | 114 lbs (52 kg)
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| High school | Inglewood High School, Inglewood, CA, USA
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| University | Ucla
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- In her retirement years, she and her husband spent most of their time working at two of their ranches.
- Devoutly Catholic mother of 7.
- Played a character named Deborah in two Joseph L. Mankiewicz films: A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and People Will Talk (1951). Mankiewicz, who did not particularly care for Crain, once remarked, "I don't like the name Deborah, and I don't like Jeanne Crain."
- Measurements: 34B-24-34 (measured by "Life" magazine, 1944), 36 1/2B-24-36 (filming Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
- Long-time husband, Paul Brooks, was an RKO contract player at one time, briefly appearing in the movie Those Endearing Young Charms (1945). He went by the stage name of Paul Brooks, but gave it all up to become a highly successful businessman.
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