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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 11, 1915
Died
November 30, 2005
Place of Birth
Deer Lodge, Montana, USA
Also Known As
- Джин Паркер
- Lois Mae Green
- Lois May Green
Jean Parker
0.6 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
3.5
Denise
Cargo of Love
1968
6.3
Mrs. Hawks
Apache Uprising
1965
3.3
'Little Women' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
4.1
Sarah Jones
The Parson and the Outlaw
1957
5.4
Cora Dean
A Lawless Street
1955
5.0
Matinee Theater
1955
6.0
Hatti Combest
Black Tuesday
1954
5.7
Ella Watson aka Cattle Kate
Stories of the Century
1954
5.3
Liz
Those Redheads from Seattle
1953
🎬
5.0
Private Secretary
1953
Credits
Cargo of Love
as Denise
1968
3.5
Apache Uprising
as Mrs. Hawks
1965
6.3
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'Little Women' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961
3.3
The Parson and the Outlaw
as Sarah Jones
1957
4.1
A Lawless Street
as Cora Dean
1955
5.4
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
Black Tuesday
as Hatti Combest
1954
6.0
Stories of the Century
as Ella Watson aka Cattle Kate
1954
5.7
Those Redheads from Seattle
as Liz
1953
5.3
🎬
Private Secretary
1953
5.0
Toughest Man in Arizona
as Della
1952
0.0
The Gunfighter
as Molly
1950
7.3
Suspense
1949
4.9
Rolling Home
as Frances Crawford
1946
5.0
Adventures of Kitty O'Day
as Kitty O'Day
1945
4.8
One Body Too Many
as Carol Dunlap
1944
5.0
Dead Man's Eyes
as Heather Hayden
1944
6.5
Bluebeard
as Lucille
1944
5.5
Oh, What a Night!
as Valerie
1944
0.0
Detective Kitty O'Day
as Kitty O'Day
1944
4.8
Lady in the Death House
as Mary Kirk Logan
1944
5.4
The Navy Way
as Ellen Sayre
1944
5.7
The Deerslayer
as Judith Hutter
1943
7.0
Minesweeper
as Mary Smith
1943
5.0
Alaska Highway
as Ann Coswell
1943
5.0
High Explosive
as Connie Baker
1943
5.7
The Traitor Within
as Molly Betts
1942
0.0
Wrecking Crew
as Peggy Starr
1942
5.5
Tomorrow We Live
as Julie Bronson
1942
4.3
Hi, Neighbor
as Dorothy Greenfield
1942
0.0
I Live on Danger
as Susan Richards
1942
5.7
🎬
Soaring Stars
as Herself
1942
0.0
Hello, Annapolis
as Doris Henley
1942
10.0
The Girl from Alaska
as Mary 'Pete' McCoy
1942
6.0
Torpedo Boat
as Grace Holman
1942
6.0
No Hands on the Clock
as Mrs. Louise Campbell
1941
4.9
Flying Blind
as Shirley Brooks
1941
2.7
The Pittsburgh Kid
as Patricia Mallory
1941
0.0
Power Dive
as Carol Blake
1941
4.0
Roar of the Press
as Alice Williams
1941
5.6
🎬
Young America Flies
as Jane
1940
0.0
Beyond Tomorrow
as Jean Lawrence
1940
6.0
Son of the Navy
as Stevie Moore
1940
5.5
Knights of the Range
as Holly Ripple
1940
0.0
The Flying Deuces
as Georgette
1939
6.4
Parents on Trial
as Susan Wesley
1939
0.0
Flight at Midnight
as Maxine Scott
1939
4.5
She Married a Cop
as Linda Fay
1939
5.7
Zenobia
as Mary Tibbett
1939
4.6
Romance of the Redwoods
as June Martin
1939
6.0
The Arkansas Traveler
as Judy Allen
1938
6.0
Romance of the Limberlost
as Laurie
1938
0.0
Penitentiary
as Elizabeth Mathews
1938
0.0
The Barrier
as Necia Gale
1937
0.0
Life Begins with Love
as Carole Martin
1937
5.0
The Texas Rangers
as Amanda Bailey
1936
6.4
The Farmer in the Dell
as Adie Boyer
1936
0.0
The Ghost Goes West
as Peggy Martin
1935
6.5
Murder in the Fleet
as Betty Lansing
1935
5.0
Princess O'Hara
as Princess O'Hara
1935
6.0
Sequoia
as Toni Martin
1935
6.0
Caravan
as Timka
1934
5.0
Limehouse Blues
as Toni
1934
4.2
A Wicked Woman
as Rosanne Stroud, aka Rosanne Trice
1934
5.0
Have a Heart
as Sally Moore
1934
7.0
Operator 13
as Eleanor
1934
5.7
Lazy River
as Sarah Lescalle
1934
7.0
Two Alone
as Mazie
1934
7.0
You Can't Buy Everything
as Elizabeth 'Beth' Burton Bell
1934
7.0
Little Women
as Beth
1933
6.8
Lady for a Day
as Louise
1933
7.0
What Price Innocence?
as Ruth Harper
1933
3.0
Storm at Daybreak
as Danitza
1933
5.8
Made on Broadway
as Adele
1933
6.5
Gabriel Over the White House
as Alice Bronson
1933
6.9
The Secret of Madame Blanche
as Eloise
1933
4.0
Rasputin and the Empress
as Princess Maria (uncredited)
1932
5.3
Divorce In The Family
as Miss Lucile SmIth
1932
6.0