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  Jeanne Crain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crain died a few months later and it was speculated that she died of a broken heart.
Crain is buried in the Brinkman family plot at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
Crain's career is fully documented by an extraordinary collection of memorabilia about her assembled by the late Charles J. Finlay (longtime publicist at 20th Century Fox).
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 Telegraph | News | Jeanne Crain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jeanne Crain, who died on Sunday aged 78, was a wholesomely alluring film actress whose most distinguished role was as a fl girl passing for a white one in the controversial Pinky.
Jeanne Crain was born on May 25 1925 at Barstow, California.
It was while she was Long Beach's Camera Girl of 1942 that Jeanne Crain was placed under contract to Fox, which proceeded to project her pretty face, slender figure and demure manner as all the accomplishments for which faraway GIs drooled.
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 Jeanne Crain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jeanne Crain (May 25, 1925 - December 14, 2003) was an American actress.
Born in Barstow, California, she moved to Los Angeles as a young child.
Roles became fewer in the 1950s as Crain went into semi-retirement to raise a family.
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 CTV.ca - Oscar-nominated actress Jeanne Crain dies- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
Crain died of a heart attack at her Santa Barbara home, according to her son, Paul Brinkman Jr.
It was a daring film at a time when Hollywood avoided racial controversy, about a girl who passes for white in the North but faces the bitter hatred of whites after returning to her grandmother's home in the Deep South.
Crain was born in Barstow, Calif., and raised in Los Angeles, where her father became head of the English department at Inglewood High School.
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 Jeanne Crain pictures, posters, photos, interviews and wallpapers.
The daughter of a high school English teacher and his wife, Jeanne was moved to Los Angeles not long after her birth after her father got another teaching position in that city.
When she was in high school Jeanne was asked to take a screen test to appear in a film by Orson Welles.
In 1945, Jeanne was cast in STATE FAIR as Margie Frake who travels to the fair and falls in love with a reporter played by Dana Andrews.
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 Blog of Death: Jeanne Crain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jeanne Crain, an Oscar-nominated actress, died on Dec. 14 from a heart attack.
Crain appeared in dozens of films, but was best known for her work in the lightweight romances and comedies of the 1940s.
In 1949, Crain received an Academy Award nomination for her stirring performance as a fl girl passing for white in "Pinky," a film directed by Elia Kazan and John Ford.
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 USATODAY.com - Oscar-nominated actress Jeanne Crain dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeanne Crain credited her mother for bringing her up in a household free of prejudice.
Jeanne Crain won an Academy Award nomination as a fl girl passing for white in the controversial Pinky.
Crain's 1943 movie debut followed the Hollywood cliche: She appeared in a swimming suit beside a pool in the all-star The Gang's All Here.
www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2003-12-15-jeanne-crain_x.htm   (699 words)

  
 CNN.com - Oscar-nominated actress Jeanne Crain dies at 78 - Dec. 14, 2003
Jeanne Crain, the winsome beauty who starred in lightweight 1940s romances and comedies and won an Academy Award nomination as a fl girl passing for white in the controversial "Pinky," has died.
Crain, who was white, died of a heart attack at her Santa Barbara home early Sunday morning, according to her son, Paul Brinkman Jr.
Crain was born in Barstow, California, on May 25, 1925.
www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/14/obit.jeanne.crain.ap   (656 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Jeanne Crain, 1925 - 2003: 'Pinky' role led to Oscar nomination   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Actress Jeanne Crain, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role as a fl girl passing for white in the controversial 1949 film "Pinky," died Sunday.
LOS ANGELES — Jeanne Crain credited her mother for bringing her up in a household free of prejudice.
Miss Crain was born in Barstow, Calif., and raised in Los Angeles, where her father became head of the English department at Inglewood High School.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2001815793_crain16.html   (580 words)

  
 Jeanne Crain -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Later in the 50's, Crain, Russell, and another actress teamed up for a short-lived singing and dancing lounge act at one of the hotels on the Las Vegas Strip.
As a lifelong devout Catholic, Jeanne Crain Brinkman and her husband Paul remained married, though they lived separately in Santa Barbara, California, until Mr.
Crain passed away a few months later and it was speculated that she died of a broken heart.
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 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Jeanne Crain, 78; was Hollywood star
LOS ANGELES -- Jeanne Crain credited her mother for bringing her up in a household free of prejudice.
The winsome beauty who specialized in frothy comedies in the 1940s and whose career was capped by her starring role in the controversial Elia Kazan classic "Pinky," died Dec. 14.
Crain became a leading star in the wartime and postwar years.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2003/12/21/jeanne_crain_78_was_hollywood_star?mode=PF   (308 words)

  
 Jeanne Crain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Crain played wholesome girl-next-door characters in a series of light entertainments (STATE FAIR, 1945, CENTENNIAL SUMMER, 1946, etc.) until she was cast against type in Elia Kazan's racial drama PINKY (1949), as a young fl woman passing for white.
Louanne Hogan was specifically under contract at 20th Century-Fox so that she could dub the singing in all of Crain's musicals.
In the 1950s Crain attempted to develop a more glamorous image and to appear in more sophisticated fare, but met with only limited success.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Hollywood film actress Crain dies
Hollywood actress Jeanne Crain, who was nominated for an Oscar in 1950, has died at her home in California aged 78.
Crain appeared in a string of films during the 1940s and 50s.
Crain married actor businessman Paul Brinkman, and they went on to have seven children together.
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 Biography for Jeanne Crain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jeanne died of a heart attack in Santa Barbara, California on December 14, 2003.
Crain, who starred in the original 1950 film version of "Cheaper by the Dozen"; sadly passed away just tweleve days before the release of the remake of the same film starring Steve Martin.
In the book, "More About All About Eve," Mankiewicz states in an interview that the studio wanted her for the part of Eve Harrington, but he refused to cast her, saying she was a pretty and hard-working young woman, but not much of an actress.
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 Amazon.com: People Will Talk: DVD: Cary Grant,Jeanne Crain,Finlay Currie,Hume Cronyn,Walter Slezak,Sidney ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Meanwhile, the doctor falls for a pregnant patient (Jeanne Crain), whose unmarried status is daring for a movie of 1951 vintage.
Crain objects to being the center of their discussion and refuses to leave the porch.
Cary Grant as Dr. Noah Praetorius, Jeanne Crain as Deborah Higgins, Finlay Currie as Shunderson, Walter Slezak as Prof.
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 Jeanne Crain - Stories of my Grandma - by Bret Crain Csupo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He would receive a similar reaction from his new mother-in-law, months later, for Loretta Crain, my great grandmother, was unhappy with my grandparent's marriage and was the source of many marital problems between my grandparents until the day she died.
My great-grandmother, Loretta Crain, who would not allow me to call her anything but La-La, was telling me to stop calling my grandma, "Grandma." La-La was insisting that I should call my grandma, "Jeanne." My grandma said this was silly.
We would sit in the shade, which was strange for me (I was a little sunworshipper) and I would listen to her graceful, dramatic voice come from behind her big hat and sunglasses and I would feel like I was with a goddess with skin made from milk.
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 Jeanne Crain Photos - Jeanne Crain News - Jeanne Crain Information
Jeanie Crain, who is catholic, has 7 kids with her husband.
Jeanne Crain's hand & footprints are right next to Cary Grant's at Grauman's Chinese theater.
Tell the world what you think of Jeanne Crain, write a review for this person.
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 Amazon.com: State Fair: DVD: Jeanne Crain,Dana Andrews,Dick Haymes,Vivian Blaine,Charles Winninger,Fay Bainter,Donald ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Young daughter Margy (Jeanne Crain) has her eye on something more exciting than her bore of a fiancé, while her brother meets a lovely big-band singer with a secret.
Jeanne Crain was the main starlet at Twentieth Century-Fox and the studio tailored this film as a showcase for her beauty and all-American wholesomeness.
But, Crain was not a singer, so her voice was dubbed by Louanne Hogan (who later made a career out of dubbing for Crain in other films like "Margie" and "You Were Meant for Me").
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 Jeanne Crain @ Filmbug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Crain obtained an interlocutory divorce decree, each spouse claiming the other had been unfaithful (she also claims Brinkman has been abusive), but the couple reconciled on the eve of their 11th wedding anniversary, and remained married until her death.
Roles became fewer in the 1950s as Crain went into semi-retirement.
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 Jeanne Crain at Reel Classics: Image Credits
Crain on the cover of the October 17, 1949 issue of Life Magazine.
Crain on the cover of the September 30, 1946 issue of Life Magazine.
Crain with Myrna Loy in BELLES ON THEIR TOES.
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 Louanne Hogan
She vocally helped Jeanne Crain in at least four pictures where songs were required, and each was a hit: State Fair, Centennial Summer (1946), Margie (1946) and Apartment For Peggy (1948).
As strict as Zanuck was with "Jeanne Crain’s voice," he did let Louanne record for Musicraft, but then only songs from Fox movies.
Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart.
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 People Will Talk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
People Will Talk (1951) is a movie directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain, with supporting performances by Hume Cronyn, Finlay Currie, Walter Slezak, and Sidney Blackmer.
Crain portrays an unmarried pregnant woman, who Dr. Praetorius first treats and later marries.
Cronyn plays Dr. Elwell, an envious colleague of Dr. Praetorius, who attempts to discredit him before a board of review.
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 Jeanne Crain at Reel Classics
Jeanne Crain, the beautiful dreamer by Phil Booker (New York: Carlton Press, 1977).
"Jeanne Crain proved you don't have to be neurotic to be an actress." Films in Review 20.6 (June/July 1969): 357+.
TVNow's monthly Jeanne Crain schedule -when her films will be on TV.
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 Jeanne Crain Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, Griff Barnett, Randy Stuart, Marion Marshall, Gene Nelson, Henri Letondal, Houseley Stevenson.
Starring Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Edward Arnold, Hoagy Carmichael, Barbara Bates, Martin Milner, Robert Arthur, Verna Felton.
Starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, Nina Mae McKinney, William Lundigan, Basil Ruysdael, Griff Barnett, Evelyn Varden, Raymond Greenleaf, Arthur Hunnicutt.
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 Jeanne Crain Books
The MGM Story by John Douglas Eames - Jeanne Crain is in a few movies from this studio, such as The Fastest Gun Alive, Hot Rods To Hell, and Skyjacked.
Being and Becoming by James Kotsilibas-Davis and Myrna Loy (published in 1987) This is the autobiography of Myrna Loy, another wonderful actress who worked with Jeanne Crain in Cheaper by the Dozen as well as Bells on Their Toes.
Hollywood At Your Feet The Story Of The World-Famous Chinese Theatre by Stacey Endres and Robert Cushman (published in 1992) Has pictures of Jeanne Crain's ceremony in 1949, placing her hand and foot prints in the cement and has a write up about Miss Crain.
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 Jeanne Crain Forum @ Filmbug
Jeanne Crain was a fine actress and a great
She didn't have to be sexy in her time: she was SO beautiful we didn't fully realize it
all those wonderful films, Jeanne (Leave her to Heaven was on the local TV today, as evidence
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 Jeanne Crain dies after heart attack - MORE MOVIE NEWS AND FEATURES - MSNBC.com
Jeanne Crain dies after heart attack - MORE MOVIE NEWS AND FEATURES - MSNBC.com
Actress Jeanne Crain, the winsome beauty who starred in lightweight 1940s romances and comedies and won an Academy Award nomination as a fl girl passing for white in the controversial "Pinky,'' has died.
LOS ANGELES - Jeanne Crain credited her mother for bringing her up in a household free of prejudice.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3717852   (725 words)

  
 Actress Jeanne Crain Dead At 78 - CBS News
Actress Jeanne Crain Dead At 78 - CBS News
(AP) Jeanne Crain, the winsome beauty who starred in lightweight 1940s romances and comedies and won an Academy Award nomination as a fl girl passing for white in the controversial "Pinky," has died.
Crain was born in Barstow, Calif., on May 25, 1925.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/12/15/entertainment/main588531.shtml   (705 words)

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