Jean Brooks
演员
32
电影
0
电视节目
Fluent in Spanish, Jean Brooks began professionally by singing with Enric Madriguera and Orchestra in New York. She had a small role in the New York City-filmed The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935) and the second lead in a Broadway play, "Name Your Poison" (1938), with Lenore Ulric, all under her real name of Jeanne Kelly. She was signed by an independent film production company that had gone under by the time she got to Hollywood. She spent several years at Universal as a leading lady in "B" pictures, including several Johnny Mack Brown westerns, but her option was dropped in late 1941. By this time she had married writer (later director) Richard Brooks and, with a certain Broadway hoofer having just signed at MGM, dropped the Kelly and became Jean Brooks. She signed with RKO, where film buffs know her for her three appearances for cult producer Val Lewton, particularly her stunning performance as a haunted devil worshiper in The Seventh Victim (1943).
Her clipped delivery and intense, forceful acting style made her a promising bet for stardom, but RKO lost interest in her by mid-'44 and her roles got gradually smaller until she was dropped in 1946. She and Brooks divorced (his later studio biographies omitted her name as one of his ex-wives). For many years she was listed as a "Lost Player" championed in several magazine articles by writer Doug McClelland. She was eventually located in San Francisco, where she had moved after her film career petered out, and was employed as a classified ad solicitor on the "San Francisco Examiner" newspaper. She had married a printer called Leddy. Her death at the Kaiser Hospital in Richmond, California, in 1963 was due to nutritional problems caused by alcoholism, a sad ending for a stylish and talented performer who didn't get the breaks she deserved, both personally and professionally.
Date of Death 25 November 1963, Richmond, California (extreme malnutrition & alcoholism)
作为演员/演员
阿博特和科斯特洛:新兵陷入困境
Camp Hostess
隐形人归来
次要角色(演员表未列出)
青蜂侠归来
Gloria Manning
闪电侠戈登征服宇宙
Olga (uncredited)
第七个受害者
Jacqueline Gibson
达科他冒险家
Bella Union Girl
The Leopard Man
Kiki Walker
两点钟的勇气
Barbara Borden
少年G男
女服务员(未列出)
The Invisible Killer
Gloria Cunningham
竹金发女郎
玛莎
青春狂野
Mary Hauser Coates
The Falcon in Danger
Iris Fairchild
死亡谷的骑士
Mary Morgan (as Jeanne Kelly)
Women in the Night
玛雅人
Boot Hill Bandits
May Meadows
好莱坞的猎鹰
Roxanna Miles
The Crime of Doctor Crespi
Nurse Gordon (as Jeanne Kelly)
冒险之夜
Julie Arden
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
Vicky Gaines
The Falcon's Alibi
Baroness Lena
恶魔的管道
Laura Larson (as Jeanne Kelly)
The Boss of Big Town
Iris Moore
Son of Roaring Dan
Eris Brooke (as Jeanne Kelly)
奥比阿
危险的游戏
Anne Bennett (as Jeanne Kelly)
大街上的奇迹
妮娜
来自蒙大拿州的男子
Linda Thompson
Fighting Bill Fargo
Linda Tyler (as Jeanne Kelly)
克朗代克之怒
Rae Langton