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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.
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27 August 1932
A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama stars Jackie Cooper, Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Jean Parker and Louise Beavers.
24 May 1935
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender.
15 November 1955
A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.
07 December 1934
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
30 December 1934
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
11 December 1934
Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs a smoky nightclub.
01 December 1941
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
26 January 1934
A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
16 January 1935
A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
02 September 1944
An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his neice.
10 November 1944
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 operation.
16 March 1934
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
23 September 1942
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 desert night club several miles away.
17 December 1935
Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor, Murdoch, who has been condemned to haunt the castle until he avenges a 200-year-old insult from a rival clan.
08 June 1934
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.
26 February 1944
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
24 November 1933
Four sisters come of age during the American Civil War. With their father away fighting, the family, headed by their mother, experiences tribulations, joy, and kindness from their wealthy neighbor and his high-spirited grandson.
23 December 1932
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
28 August 1939
Spinner McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by Pop Hussey from being condemned.
04 June 1941
The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane.
13 May 1944
Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets her chance to put her sleuthing skills to the test when her investment broker boss is mysteriously murdered.
26 January 1934
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
25 April 1942
Two autograph hounds attend an air show at Santa Anita racetrack.
14 June 1933
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand.
10 October 1952
Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack.
15 March 1944
As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.
23 June 1950
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
30 March 1940
A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
22 November 1943
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 Jingo-Good.
16 June 1942
A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.
23 September 1957
Billy the Kid fakes his own death at the hands of Pat Garret, but is forced to come out of hiding to stop a ruthless cattle baron from destroying a small frontier community.
03 February 1933
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
29 March 1939
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 himself when Malone dies under cloudy circumstances.
19 January 1945
A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.
28 August 1936
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
31 December 1961
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
10 May 1940
The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought together.
10 December 1937
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 Bennett.
10 November 1943
A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins.
03 November 1939
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles.
11 July 1939
This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he sings at the annual Policeman's Ball.
07 September 1934
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 magnanimously offers to not back out of the marriage.
16 October 1953
A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.
27 March 1936
An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.
13 September 1933
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's high society.
16 December 1942
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 responsible for catching a regiment of Germans during WW I.
23 June 1968
A young woman answering an ad for a traveling companion winds up drugged, kidnapped and in the clutches of a white slavery ring.
01 November 1946
An elderly rodeo rider, his young grandson and their injured horse help transform the lives of various citizens in a small town.
26 October 1944
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?
24 November 1944
An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.
14 October 1938
The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr.
21 April 1939
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
05 February 1938
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
07 November 1942
Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building.
06 October 1937
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.
17 April 1941
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
31 March 1935
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.
24 June 1943
Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada.
16 June 1938
An orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost by her aunt, who hates her because the girl's mother married the man that the aunt loved.
31 December 1954
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him.
