
Jean Parker
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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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.041 |
Birthday | 1915-08-11 |
Place of Birth | Deer Lodge, Montana, USA |
Also Known As | Джин Паркер, Lois Mae Green, Lois May Green , |

1939

The Flying Deuces
6.4/162
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1940

Beyond Tomorrow
6/33
The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought toge...
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1944

One Body Too Many
5.2/24
An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.
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1942

Tomorrow We Live
4.3/6
Julie Bronson, whose father operates a desert cafe, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-crazed gangster known as The Ghost who runs a deser...
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1954

Black Tuesday
5.9/23
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a b...
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1944

Bluebeard
5.6/45
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?
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1955

A Lawless Street
5.4/29
A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.
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1933

Lady for a Day
7.047/86
Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York'...
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1944

Dead Man's Eyes
6.5/22
Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring...
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1950

The Gunfighter
7.275/187
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
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1933

Little Women
6.8/136
Four sisters come of age during the American Civil War. With their father away fighting, the family, headed by their mother, experiences tribulations,...
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1944

Lady in the Death House
5.4/13
As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.
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1936

The Texas Rangers
6.406/16
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1943

Minesweeper
5/9
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1944

Detective Kitty O'Day
4.8/18
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1933

The Secret of Madame Blanche
4/4
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
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1944

The Navy Way
5.7/6
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
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1941

No Hands on the Clock
4.9/7
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
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1934

Operator 13
5.7/13
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1935

Sequoia
6/1
A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
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1939

Zenobia
4.6/12
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1932

Divorce In The Family
6/3
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1935

The Ghost Goes West
6.5/34
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1945

Adventures of Kitty O'Day
4.8/4
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1953

Those Redheads from Seattle
5.3/11
A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.
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1934

Limehouse Blues
4.2/6
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Limehouse Blues

1933

Made on Broadway
6.5/2
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1934

You Can't Buy Everything
7/1
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1934

A Wicked Woman
5/3
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1957

The Parson and the Outlaw
4.1/7
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1952

Toughest Man in Arizona
0/0
Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring...
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1934

Lazy River
7/1
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
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1939

She Married a Cop
5/2
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1938

The Arkansas Traveler
6/2
The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend wh...
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1935

Murder in the Fleet
5/2
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of te...
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1946

Rolling Home
5/2
An elderly rodeo rider, his young grandson and their injured horse help transform the lives of various citizens in a small town. Released in 1946.
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1934

Have a Heart
7/2
Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed magnanim...
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1934

Two Alone
7/2
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1942

I Live on Danger
5.7/6
A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.
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1933

Storm at Daybreak
5.8/4
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1938

Romance of the Limberlost
0/0
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1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years
3.3/3
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1968

Cargo of Love
3.5/2
A young woman answering an ad for a traveling companion winds up drugged, kidnapped and in the clutches of a white slavery ring.
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1935

Princess O'Hara
6/1
When King's beloved horse dies, Princess tries to purchase a new nag, and that's how she inadvertently gets her hands on a "stolen" race horse. Our he...
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1932

Rasputin and the Empress
5.3/11
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
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1933

Gabriel Over the White House
7.1/11
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fata...
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1937

The Barrier
0/0
Gale, a store owner, lives in an Alaskan village with his grown ward, Necia, whom he had rescued years before from her murderer father, Captain Bennet...
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1943

Alaska Highway
5/2
Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two...
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1941

Power Dive
4.6/5
The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane. Ace flyboy Brad Farrell (Richard Arl...
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1934

Caravan
5/1
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
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1933

What Price Innocence?
3/1
A young woman has to pay the price for fooling around with men.
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1939

Flight at Midnight
4.5/2
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1942

Hi, Neighbor
0/0
A financially strapped college is transformed into a summer holiday resort with the help of music and radio stars.
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1965

Apache Uprising
6.4/10
Various stage coach passengers and outlaws travelling through Indian country are forced to join forces against the Apaches.
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1936

The Farmer in the Dell
0/0
An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.
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1941

The Pittsburgh Kid
0/0
Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of th...
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1939

Parents on Trial
0/0
According to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory is elucidated in Columbia's Parents on Trial, wherein...
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1941

Flying Blind
5/1
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened...
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1942

Torpedo Boat
6/1
Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the title)....
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1942

The Traitor Within
0/0
In this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who constantly brags how he, not the town mayor, was respons...
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1943

The Deerslayer
7/2
Deerslayer, a white man who was brought up by the Mohicans, helps his old tribe when the Hurons steal Princess Wah Tah, the betrothed of his friend Ji...
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The Deerslayer

1942

Soaring Stars
0/0
Two autograph hounds attend an air show at Santa Anita racetrack.
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1939

Romance of the Redwoods
6/1
June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on hi...
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Romance of the Redwoods

1940

Knights of the Range
0/0
Russell Hayden, taking a break from playing Hopalong Cassidy pictures, stars as Renn Frayne, a college-educated youth heading westward who finds more...
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1940

Son of the Navy
5.5/4
A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
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1942

Hello, Annapolis
10/1
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
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1941

Roar of the Press
5.6/5
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
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Roar of the Press

1937

Life Begins with Love
5/1
A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He d...
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1942

Wrecking Crew
5.5/2
Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew i...
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Wrecking Crew

1940

Young America Flies
0/0
World War II propaganda film from Warner Brothers.
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1943

High Explosive
5.7/3
Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz" Mitchell (Chester Morris), a race-driver of midget-auto ca...
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High Explosive

1942

The Girl from Alaska
6/1
A would-be prospector becomes involved in a plot to deceive an old prospector of his cache, but falls in love with his daughter instead.
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The Girl from Alaska

1944

Oh, What a Night!
0/0
An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his neice.
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Oh, What a Night!

1938

Penitentiary
0/0
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
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