Jeanne Crain

AKA: Jeanne Elizabeth Crain, Jeanne Crain Brinkman

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1925-05-25

Barstow, California, USA

Biography

Jeanne Elizabeth Crain (May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003) was an American actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her title role in Pinky.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {55}

Self (archive footage)

1968-01-01 6.3

The Movie Orgy

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 ...

Genre :Comedy, Documentary, History

Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")

1952-08-07 6.78

O. Henry's Full House

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 ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Deborah Higgins

1951-08-29 7.132

People Will Talk

A successful, unorthodox doctor befriends a young woman with suicidal ideations due to her pregnancy by her ex, a military reservist killed in action. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

Dora Temple

1956-07-12 6.9

The Fastest Gun Alive

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 h ...

Genre :Drama, Western

Ann Gilbreth

1950-03-31 6.3

Cheaper by the Dozen

"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 fami ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Family

Margy Frake

1945-08-29 6.558

State Fair

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 ...

Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

Peg Phillips

1967-01-27 4.767

Hot Rods to Hell

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 wi ...

Genre :Action, Thriller

Ruth Stanton Bowman

1953-07-22 6.2

Dangerous Crossing

A honeymoon aboard an ocean liner is cut short when the bride finds herself suddenly alone, and unable to convince anyone of her husband’s existence. ...

Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Daisy Fay Buchanan

1958-06-26 0

The Great Gatsby

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. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Reed Bowman

1955-03-24 6.417

Man Without a Star

A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war. ...

Genre :Western

Jill Lynn

1953-10-05 5.409

Vicki

A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Patricia "Pinky" Johnson

1949-09-28 7.122

Pinky

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 w ...

Genre :Drama

Deborah Bishop

1949-01-20 7.2

A Letter to Three Wives

A letter is addressed to three wives from their 'best friend', announcing that she's running away with one of their husbands – but she doesn't specify which one. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama, Mystery

Ruth Berent

1945-12-25 7.422

Leave Her to Heaven

A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her. ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, Romance

Ann Gilbreth

1952-05-02 6.821

Belles on Their Toes

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. ...

Genre :Comedy

Peggy Shannon

1961-04-13 6

Madison Avenue

An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House. ...

Genre :Drama

Connie Jones / Mitzi Jones

1955-10-29 5.028

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

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. ...

Genre :Music, Romance, Comedy

Linda Foster

1961-08-13 6.2

Twenty Plus Two

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 th ...

Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Diane Blane

1957-03-14 5.2

The Tattered Dress

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 New York defense lawyer J.G. Blane, w ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Nefertiti

1961-09-20 5.391

Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile

Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Mrs. Clara Shaw

1972-05-24 6.125

Skyjacked

A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia. ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Thriller

Marjorie "Margie" MacDuff

1946-10-15 6.9

Margie

A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Kitty Bennett

1951-11-01 6.219

The Model and the Marriage Broker

A marriage broker can't resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Letty Page

1957-09-26 8

The Joker is Wild

A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss. ...

Genre :Drama, Music

Fanny Pierce

1971-01-01 5.1

The Night God Screamed

A woman is persecuted by Jesus freaks after they've crucified her preacher husband. ...

Genre :Crime, Horror

Margaret 'Maggie' Preston

1944-09-22 5.667

In the Meantime, Darling

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 problem ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, War

Lady Margaret 'Meg' Windermere

1949-04-01 5.722

The Fan

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 new ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Julia Rogers

1946-07-10 5.5

Centennial Summer

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. ...

Genre :Music, Comedy, History

Helen

1944-12-22 5.5

Winged Victory

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 strug ...

Genre :Drama, War

Claudia Procula

1962-02-15 6.4

Pontius Pilate

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 Jo ...

Genre :Drama, History

Liz Erickson

1951-07-06 5

Take Care of My Little Girl

A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing. ...

Genre :Drama

Charlotte 'Char' Bruce

1944-06-15 5.5

Home in Indiana

'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, h ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

Peggy Taylor

1948-09-30 8.125

Apartment for Peggy

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 ap ...