Jeanne Crain

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Jeanne Elizabeth Crain (May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003) was an American actress whose career spanned from 1943 to 1975.

She received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in the 1949 film Pinky, in which she played the leading role.

She was also noted for her ability in ice skating.

Early life

Crain was born in Barstow, California, to George A. Crain, a schoolteacher, and Loretta Carr, who were Irish Catholics. By 1930, they were living in Inglewood, California at 822 S. Walnut Avenue. When her parents divorced in 1934, the family of three moved to 5817 Van Ness Ave in Los Angeles.

An excellent ice skater, Crain first attracted attention when she was crowned Miss Pan-Pacific at the Pan-Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles. Later, while still in high school, she was asked to take a screen test with Orson Welles, but she did not get the part. After high school, she enrolled at UCLA to study drama. In 1943, at age 18, she appeared in a bit part in the film The Gang's All Here.

Personal life

At the height of her stardom in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Crain was known as "Hollywood's Number One party girl", and she was quoted as saying she was invited to at least 200 parties a year.

Against her mother's wishes, on December 31, 1945, Crain married Paul Brinkman, a former contract player at RKO Pictures who was credited as Paul Brooks. He later became a top executive with an arms manufacturing company. They had seven children.

The marriage was rocky. In the mid-1950s, Crain obtained an interlocutory divorce decree. Each claimed the other was unfaithful, and she alleged he was abusive. However, they reconciled on December 31, 1956.

In the early 1960s, she was one of many conservative actors who spent their time promoting the Republican Party.

Crain and her husband remained married, although they lived separately in Santa Barbara until Brinkman's death in October 2003.

Crain died two months later from a heart attack. Her funeral mass was held at the Old Santa Barbara Mission. She is buried in the Brinkman family plot at Santa Barbara Cemetery.

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Career

All Here was created by twentieth Century Fox. In the romantic drama Home in Indiana (1944) with Walter Brennan, who played the love interest of Lon McCallister's character, Fox then cast Crain in her first sizable role. The film, shot in Technicolor, was a hit at the box office and established Crain as a film name.

In In In the Meantime, Darling (1944), directed by Otto Preminger, where she appeared as a war bride, Darryl F Zanuck, the head of Fox, gave Crain top billing. Her career had been panned, but she gained national notice. It resulted in her casting in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, a musical film made with Betty Grable as the lead actor.

When she appeared in Winged Victory (1944), Crain first received critical notice. (1944) She co-starred in 1945 with Dana Andrews in the musical film State Fair, where Louanne Hogan dubbed Crain's singing. Crain appeared in films for the first time, but they were often dubbed, usually by Hogan.

The state Fair in 1989, as well as Leave Her to Heaven (1945), in which Crain played the "good" sister of her "poor" sibling, played by Gene Tierney, both of whom are in love with Cornel Wilde's character. Crain rose to fame as one of Fox's top stars, but Zanuck refused to allow her to appear in My Darling Clementine (1946).

In Centennial Summer (1946), directed by Preminger, Fox's effort to imitate Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Crain and Wilde were revived. Margie (1946), which displayed her ice skating skills, and Conrad Janis, who appeared on the ice rink as her boyfriend, played by Alan Young, slipped and stumbled after them.

She made two films in 1948: You Were Meant for Me, a musical with Dan Dailey that may have included Marilyn Monroe's first film appearance; and Apartment for Peggy, with William Holden.

Crain appeared in three films in 1949. A Letter from Three Wives (1949), where she was top-billed, was a good box-office hit for Joseph L. Mankiewicz and is regarded as a masterpiece. The Fan, directed by Preminger and based on Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde, was poorly received. Pinky received a nomination for Best Actress in the Academy Award, one of the year's most popular films; nevertheless, it was controversial because it told the tale of a light-skinned African American woman who passed for white in the Northern United States. Despite Lena Horne and other black actresses, producer Darryl F. Zanuck decided against a white actress out of fear of racial backlash.

Crain's debut as a supporter in the 1950 biographical film Cheaper by the Dozen brought her to another level. She appeared in Take Care of My Little Girl (1951), a moderately popular drama about snobbery in college sororities, and appeared in I'll Get By (1951).

In the Joseph L. Mankiewicz film People Will Talk (1951), Crain partnered with Cary Grant. Anne Baxter was initially cast in the role, but Crain had to cancel due to pregnancy, so she kept the role after all.

Crain appeared in Charles Brackett's film The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951), a few years ago. She was Brackett's first pick when she was cast in May 1951. On Their Toes (1952), the sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen, she was reunited with Loy for Belles (1952), and she received the highest billing this time.

In Dangerous Crossing (1953), co-starring Michael Rennie, Crain was still at 20th Century Fox, playing a young wife losing her mind amid high stakes intrigue. She appeared in Vicki (1953), a revival of I Wake Up Screaming, and Fox brought her to a Western, City of Bad Men (1954). Both films were only well at the box office, and Crain left the house.

Crain made Duel in the Jungle (1954) in the United Kingdom and then Man Without a Star (1955), a Western with Kirk Douglas at Universal, where she played the lead female role of a hard-nosed rancher-owner.

She performed her dancing skills in 1954's Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, a quasi-sequel to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes based on Anita Loos' book and costarring Jane Russell. Parts of the film was shot in Paris and then released in France as A Paris Pour les Quatre (To Paris for the Foursome), and Cevieren Te Parijs in Belgium. Crain, Russell, and another actor formed a short-lived singing and dancing lounge act on the Las Vegas Strip in the 1950s.

Crain created The Second Greatest Sex (1956), later starring Glenn Ford, Russ Tamblyn, and Broderick Crawford in Russell Rouse's film The Fastest Gun Alive. It was a big success. She appeared in The Tattered Dress (1957), then appeared in The Joker Is Wild (1957), before becoming a socialite who helps floundering singer and comedian Joe E. Lewis (Frank Sinatra) recover himself.

Crain began acting in television, appearing Daisy in a 1958 version of Meet Me in St. Louis starring Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Ed Wynn, Ed Wynn, and top-billed Tab Hunter.

Crain appeared in fewer films in the 1960s as she entered semiretirement. Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile (1961) with Edmund Purdom and Vincent Price; and in Madison Avenue (1962) with Dana Andrews and Eleanor Parker. Crain appeared on What's My Line for the second time as a mystery visitor on What's My Line? and performed guest appearances on the Riverboat and Burke's Law during this period.

She appeared in Hot Rods To Hell (1967), co-starring Dana Andrews. Sheston appeared in The Night God Screamed (1971) and Skyjacked (1972).

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