Jean Carmen

Jean Carmen

Born: April 7, 1913
Died: August 26, 1993
in Portland, Oregon, USA
From Wikipedia

Jean Carmen (April 7, 1913 – August 26, 1993), was an American film, stage, and radio actress of the 1930s. She also went by the stage name Julia Thayer.

Born in Portland, Oregon on April 7, 1913, Carmen was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1934, the last year they were named. She had a supporting role as The Rider in the 1937 Republic Pictures western serial The Painted Stallion. She also worked in radio and on Broadway, in Stage Door and the original 1939 production of The Man Who Came to Dinner (as a replacement for the role of June Stanley). Modern audiences will also remember Carmen as one of three gold diggers in the 1938 Three Stooges comedy Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb.

Carmen died on August 26, 1993 in Charleston, South Carolina.

Movies for Jean Carmen...

Crashing Thru
Title: Crashing Thru
Character: Ann 'Angel' Chambers
Released: December 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Renfrew of the Mounties hunts brother-and-sister gold hijackers.
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Yes, We Have No Bonanza
Title: Yes, We Have No Bonanza
Character: Singing Sister (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of stolen money. The boys go prospecting in hopes of raising enough money to pay off the debts of their fiancée father, who owes money to their boss. They dig up the stolen money, which the crooks recognize as their loot and abscond with. A wild chase ensues, ending with the bad guy's car crashing into the Sheriff's office.
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Smoky Trails
Title: Smoky Trails
Character: Marie
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Trailing the men that murdered his father, Bob Archer finds a man in a gunfight. He helps him to escape only to be knocked out by him and captured by the Sheriff.
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In Old Montana
Title: In Old Montana
Character: June Allison
Released: February 5, 1939
Type: Movie
The Colonel sends Fred Dawson and Doc Flanders to investigate a cattleman sheepman war. Posing as a two man medicine show, they quickly become involved. When Fred tries to bring the two sides together, Joe Allison is shot and Fred blamed. With Fred in jail and a lynch mob on the way, Doc tries to break his friend out.
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Four Girls in White
Title: Four Girls in White
Character: Nurse
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
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Sunset Murder Case
Title: Sunset Murder Case
Character: Chorus Girl (Uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Small-time showgirl poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder.
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Paroled from the Big House
Title: Paroled from the Big House
Character: Pat Mallory
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A federal agent poses as a criminal to infiltrate a gang of parolees seeking vengeance on the lawmen who jailed them.
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Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb
Title: Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb
Character: Marge - Gold-digging Widow
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically wreck, running up quite a bill. When they discover that, minus tax deductions, the jackpot is only $4.85 they quickly agree to marry three pretty rich widows who are also living in the hotel. The "widows" are actually gold diggers conniving to the get the jackpot money. When the girls find out what the jackpot is really worth, the boys get conked with champagne bottles.
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Million Dollar Racket
Title: Million Dollar Racket
Character: Jessie
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Millionaire Larry Duane is posing as his own chauffeur while touring the West and meets Molly Hennessey. They have a small romance until it is ended when her father strikes oil and moves his family east to satistify his wife's social aspirations. Larry also return east to close his estate for the summer, but stays on, still posing as the chauffeur, when he learns that Molly's family is renting the place.
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Arizona Gunfighter
Title: Arizona Gunfighter
Character: Beth Lorimer
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
When Colt kills the men that murdered his father, he escapes his pursuers and joins Wolf and his outlaw gang. After two years Wolf breaks up the gang, deeds his ranch to Colt, and turns himself in. Now an honest rancher, things are going fine for Colt until Wolf's old gang shows up under a new leader. Colt get the Governor to release Wolf claiming the two of them can bring in the gang.
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The Painted Stallion
Title: The Painted Stallion
Character: The Rider (as Julia Thayer)
Released: June 5, 1937
Type: Movie
American federal agent Clark Stuart is on assignment in Santa Fe to draw up a trade agreement with the newly installed Mexican governor. Meanwhile, Walter Jamison leads a wagon train from Missouri, hoping to take advantage of the new agreement. Among Jamison's passenger are famed frontiersman Jim Bowie and a very youthful Kit Carson. The destinies of all these personalities intersect when villainous ex-governor DuPrey schemes to undermine the treaty and take over the New Mexico territory for his own vile purposes. Somewhere along the way, Davy Crockett joins the "good guys" in their efforts to thwart the despicable DuPrey.
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Gunsmoke Ranch
Title: Gunsmoke Ranch
Character: Marion Warren
Released: May 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A crooked real estate manipulator sells worthless land on mortgage to flood refugees, then tries to profit by reselling the land to the state, committing murder in the process, as the Three Mesquiteers work to bring him and his gang to justice.
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Bill Cracks Down
Title: Bill Cracks Down
Character: Girl
Released: March 22, 1937
Type: Movie
William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request. He also finds that his father's will specifies the Junior will change his name to Bill Hall and work in the family steel mill for a year under the fake name. Walker's job is to make a man out of the son. The son is not overjoyed by this prospect. Neither is Walker.
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Circus Girl
Title: Circus Girl
Character: Woman
Released: March 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
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Wolves of the Sea
Title: Wolves of the Sea
Character: Nadine Miller
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A young socialite, marooned on a desert island after her passenger ship sinks, is rescued by a sailing vessel looking for salvage and finds herself dealing with a mutinous crew and a semi-insane captain.
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Born to Battle
Title: Born to Battle
Character: Betty Powell
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Good-natured troublemaker "Cyclone" Tom Saunders is hired by a ranchers' association manager to investigate recent cattle rustling at one of their ranches and to see if a pair of nesters have anything to do with it. After discovering the nesters, pretty Betty Powell and her rickety old father, are incapable of rustling, Tom instead turns his attention to the huge, swaggering bully of a foreman, Nate Lenox.
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The Third Sex
Title: The Third Sex
Character: Bobby Allen
Released: November 8, 1934
Type: Movie
An exploitation film about homosexuality. The film is believed to be lost. Elinor Gordon, who was frightened sexually by a man while an infant, confides in her psychoanalyst that she is contemplating yielding to the advances of her overly attentive and affectionate female roommate, Bobby Allen. The psychoanalyst advises the woman to dispossess her roommate, who works in the same law office as she, and to marry a football player. After the young woman rebuffs her roommate, she accompanies her lawyer employer, Dave Warren, to the country home of the firm's senior partner, John Grant. While Elinor falls in love with Dave, the senior partner's socialite daughter, Judy, yearns for Paul, an artist, who, unknown to her, is a homosexual.
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Young and Beautiful
Title: Young and Beautiful
Character: Wampas Baby Star
Released: September 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Preston, publicity man for Superba Pictures, uses his publicity skills in an attempt to make this fiancée June Dale the most famous movie star in the world. But in doing so, he forgets that women want to be attended to for themselves, not as objects of fame.
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Kiss and Make-Up
Title: Kiss and Make-Up
Character: Maharajah's Wife
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
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Hips, Hips, Hooray!
Title: Hips, Hips, Hooray!
Character: Blonde
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.
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Flying Down to Rio
Title: Flying Down to Rio
Character: Dancer
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.
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Midshipman Jack
Title: Midshipman Jack
Character: Gloria's Blonde Girlfriend
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.