Jeanne Crain

Jeanne Crain

Born: May 25, 1925
Died: December 14, 2003
in Barstow, California, USA
Jeanne Elizabeth Crain (May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003) was an American actress.

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Rat Pack
Title: Rat Pack
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 11, 2022
Type: Movie
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford together form the "rat pack": they sing the most popular hits of the moment, star in the most profitable Hollywood films and are already making a splash on television . This documentary, produced by a recognized specialist in the history of Hollywood, recounts the exceptional destiny of this informal group which flirted with the greats of this world, notably through Sinatra, personal friend of American President Kennedy.
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Skyjacked
Title: Skyjacked
Character: Mrs. Clara Shaw
Released: May 24, 1972
Type: Movie
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.
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The Night God Screamed
Title: The Night God Screamed
Character: Fanny Pierce
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A woman is persecuted by Jesus freaks after they've crucified her preacher husband.
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Title: The Name of the Game
Character: Mrs. McKendricks
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
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The Movie Orgy
Title: The Movie Orgy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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Hot Rods to Hell
Title: Hot Rods to Hell
Character: Peg Phillips
Released: January 27, 1967
Type: Movie
While on a business trip, Tom Phillips is in a car accident caused by a reckless driver. Tom survives the accident with a severe chronic back injury which results in him not being able to continue with his current business. The Phillips' buy a motel in the California desert and Tom with his wife Peg and their two children, Tina and Jamie make the long road trip to their new home. As they approach their destination they are terrorized by reckless teenage hot-rodders looking for kicks.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Amy Booth
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Polly Martin
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Lorraine Turner
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Monsters and Madonnas: The World of William Mortensen
Title: Monsters and Madonnas: The World of William Mortensen
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
This documentary stars Vincent Price and Jeanne Crain. It shows William Mortensen and George Dunham as well as Grey Silva in Mortensen's studio. It features most of Mortensen's famous pictures and chronicles his life.
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Invasion 1700
Title: Invasion 1700
Character: Helen
Released: July 14, 1962
Type: Movie
Set in 18th-century Eastern Europe, the film concerns the star-crossed romance between a Polish military officer and a gorgeous Slavic princess. The princess' vengeful lover cuts a path of death and destruction throughout the land.
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Pontius Pilate
Title: Pontius Pilate
Character: Claudia Procula
Released: February 15, 1962
Type: Movie
The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned Christ to death. Based on the biblical Gospel of John.
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Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
Title: Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
Character: Nefertiti
Released: September 20, 1961
Type: Movie
Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.
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Twenty Plus Two
Title: Twenty Plus Two
Character: Linda Foster
Released: August 13, 1961
Type: Movie
A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress?
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Madison Avenue
Title: Madison Avenue
Character: Peggy Shannon
Released: April 13, 1961
Type: Movie
An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House.
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Guns of the Timberland
Title: Guns of the Timberland
Character: Laura Riley
Released: February 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Logger Jim Hadley and his lumberjack crew are looking for new forest to cut. They locate a prime prospect outside the town of Deep Wells. The residents of Deep Wells led by Laura Riley are opposed to the felling of the trees, believing that losing them would cause mudslides during the heavy rains. Conflict between the town's residents and the loggers is inevitable.
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Title: Riverboat
Character: Laura Sutton
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds broadcast on the NBC television network from September 13, 1959 until January 2, 1961. It was produced by Revue Studios.
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Meet Me in St. Louis
Title: Meet Me in St. Louis
Character: Rose Smith
Released: April 26, 1959
Type: Movie
This adaptation of the classic 1944 film musical explores the lives of the close-knit Smith family -- mother, father, grandfather, and five children -- who live in St. Louis in the year 1903.
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The Great Gatsby
Title: The Great Gatsby
Character: Daisy Fay Buchanan
Released: June 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald for "Playhouse 90." A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his wealthy neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.
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The Joker Is Wild
Title: The Joker Is Wild
Character: Letty Page
Released: September 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the employ of Chicago mob boss Georgie Parker. A broken alcoholic, Joe is brought back from the abyss by his faithful piano player, Austin Mack, who helps turn the former singer into a successful stand-up comedian. But Joe's demons plague his romantic life even as he reaches new heights of success.
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The Tattered Dress
Title: The Tattered Dress
Character: Diane Blane
Released: March 14, 1957
Type: Movie
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly...
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The Fastest Gun Alive
Title: The Fastest Gun Alive
Character: Dora Temple
Released: July 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when he's drunk. All citizens swear to keep his secret and support him to give up his guns forever -- but a boy tells the story to a gang of wanted criminals. Their leader threatens to burn down the whole town, if he doesn't duel him.
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Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
Title: Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
Character: Connie Jones / Mitzi Jones
Released: October 29, 1955
Type: Movie
Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York as well as not getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.
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The Second Greatest Sex
Title: The Second Greatest Sex
Character: Liza McClure
Released: September 30, 1955
Type: Movie
In 1880, Osawkie, Kansas is feuding with rival town Mandaroon over which will be county seat, keeping the town's men away from home most of the time. The last straw is when Matt Davis feels compelled to go on a new foray on his wedding night; his bride Liza (just call her Lysistrata) takes teacher Cassie's advice and organizes a marital strike to make the men-folk stop their nonsense.
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Man Without a Star
Title: Man Without a Star
Character: Reed Bowman
Released: March 24, 1955
Type: Movie
A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
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Duel in the Jungle
Title: Duel in the Jungle
Character: Marian Taylor
Released: June 30, 1954
Type: Movie
An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast. The broker was insured for $1 million so the insurers are suspicious.
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Vicki
Title: Vicki
Character: Jill Lynn
Released: October 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.
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City of Bad Men
Title: City of Bad Men
Character: Linda Culligan
Released: September 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Outlaws plan a robbery to take place during a championship prizefight in Carson City, Nevada.
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Dangerous Crossing
Title: Dangerous Crossing
Character: Ruth Stanton Bowman
Released: July 22, 1953
Type: Movie
A honeymoon aboard an ocean liner is cut short when the young bride finds herself suddenly alone, and unable to convince anyone of her husband’s existence.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Hope
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Marion Miller
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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O. Henry's Full House
Title: O. Henry's Full House
Character: Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
Released: August 7, 1952
Type: Movie
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
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Belles on Their Toes
Title: Belles on Their Toes
Character: Ann Gilbreth
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.
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The Model and the Marriage Broker
Title: The Model and the Marriage Broker
Character: Kitty Bennett
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A marriage broker can't resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Ruth Elliot
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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People Will Talk
Title: People Will Talk
Character: Deborah Higgins
Released: August 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.
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Take Care of My Little Girl
Title: Take Care of My Little Girl
Character: Liz Erickson
Released: July 6, 1951
Type: Movie
A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.
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I'll Get By
Title: I'll Get By
Character: Herself
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: Movie
I'll Get By is an updated remake of the 1940 20th Century-Fox musical Tin Pan Alley. William Lundigan and Dennis Day play William Spencer and Freddie Lee respectively, successful song publishers who make hits out of such numbers as "I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo", "Deep in the Heart of Texas", "You Make Me Feel So Young", "There Will Never Be Another You", and other favorites (the rights to all of these songs were conveniently held by 20th Century-Fox). The partnership has some hard times, especially during the feud between ASCAP and the radio networks, when only public-domain songs like "I Dream of Jeannie" were permitted to be broadcast.
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Cheaper by the Dozen
Title: Cheaper by the Dozen
Character: Ann Gilbreth
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Pinky
Title: Pinky
Character: Patricia "Pinky" Johnson
Released: September 28, 1949
Type: Movie
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 while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
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The Fan
Title: The Fan
Character: Lady Margaret 'Meg' Windermere
Released: April 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he starts paying visits to a mysterious beautiful newcomer, Mrs. Erylnne, who is determined to make her entry into London's high society. Worse, the secret gets back to Margaret that Windermere has been giving Mrs. Erylnne large sums of money.
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A Letter to Three Wives
Title: A Letter to Three Wives
Character: Deborah Bishop
Released: January 20, 1949
Type: Movie
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.
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Apartment for Peggy
Title: Apartment for Peggy
Character: Peggy Taylor
Released: September 30, 1948
Type: Movie
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 apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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You Were Meant for Me
Title: You Were Meant for Me
Character: Peggy Mayhew
Released: January 28, 1948
Type: Movie
A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.
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Margie
Title: Margie
Character: Marjorie "Margie" MacDuff
Released: October 15, 1946
Type: Movie
A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.
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Centennial Summer
Title: Centennial Summer
Character: Julia Rogers
Released: July 10, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters vie for the affections of a Frenchman who's come to town to prepare the French pavilion for the Centennial exposition.
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Leave Her to Heaven
Title: Leave Her to Heaven
Character: Ruth Berent
Released: December 25, 1945
Type: Movie
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
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State Fair
Title: State Fair
Character: Margy Frake
Released: August 29, 1945
Type: Movie
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 and pickles contest...with hilarious results.
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The All-Star Bond Rally
Title: The All-Star Bond Rally
Character: Self - Pinup Girl
Released: May 10, 1945
Type: Movie
Inspirational documentary short film featuring Hollywood stars promoting the sales of War Bonds through songs and skits. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
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Winged Victory
Title: Winged Victory
Character: Helen
Released: December 22, 1944
Type: Movie
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.
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In the Meantime, Darling
Title: In the Meantime, Darling
Character: Margaret 'Maggie' Preston
Released: September 22, 1944
Type: Movie
A young bride who comes from a rich family has a hard time adjusting to life in a boarding house with other soldiers and their wives. Her spoiled ways cause resentment from the other wives and problems with her husband.
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Home in Indiana
Title: Home in Indiana
Character: Charlotte 'Char' Bruce
Released: June 15, 1944
Type: Movie
'Sparke' Thorton, a lad with a penchant for trouble, is sent to live with his Uncle and Aunt Bolt in Indiana after his Aunt Henrietta Bolt dies. Though he's not happy about the arrangement at first, his love of horses and his affection for a young filly that he plans to race make life bearable. He also finds romance with tomboyish 'Char' Bruce who shares his love for horses.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Chorus Girl / Pool Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.