Full Name | Jean Peters |
Net Worth | $1.2 Million |
Date Of Birth | October 15, 1926 |
Died | October 13, 2000, Carlsbad, California, United States |
Place Of Birth | Canton, Ohio, USA |
Height | 1.66 m |
Profession | Actor |
Education | University of Michigan, East Canton High School, Ohio State University |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Stanley Hough, Howard Hughes, Stuart Cramer |
Parents | Gerald Peters, Elizabeth Peters |
Siblings | Arlen Stuart |
Nicknames | Jean Peters, Peters, Jean |
IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0676492 |
Movies | Niagara, Pickup on South Street, Viva Zapata!, Captain from Castile, Three Coins in the Fountain, Broken Lance, A Man Called Peter, Anne of the Indies, Apache, It Happens Every Spring, A Blueprint for Murder, O. Henry's Full House, Lure of the Wilderness, Deep Waters, Vicki, As Young as You Feel, Wa... |
TV Shows | Peter and Paul, The Moneychangers |
Star Sign | Libra |
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1 | Sister of Arlen Stuart. |
2 | She was a fan of the TV shows Father Dowling Mysteries (1989) and Frasier (1993). |
3 | When she divorced Howard Hughes in 1971 she agreed to an alimony payment of $70,000 per year (which was later adjusted to a lower amount during the inflation period of the late 1970s). |
4 | A feminist, she refused to be typecast as a glamor girl or sex symbol, feeling it was too degrading. |
5 | Until her death she felt her work in Winesburg, Ohio (1973) to be the biggest career mistake she ever made. because she believed her role to be mundane. |
6 | She considered Christopher Plummer to be one of the greatest actors she ever worked with. |
7 | Was Max Factor's Star of the Year in 1950. |
8 | Although she died in October 2000 she was still able to vote for George W. Bush for president in that year's presidential election by means of absentee ballot. |
9 | She was a staunch Republican who gave much of her time and money to a host of conservative political causes. She also attended several Republican fund-raisers and galas and was active in the campaigns of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. |
10 | She was originally meant to make her film debut in I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947) but refused her part because it required her to look ugly. |
11 | She would never talk about Howard Hughes in an interview. |
12 | She was a financial supporter of the psychology and anthropology studies at the UCLA. |
13 | Was crowned Miss Ohio 1945. |
14 | She had such a determination to obtain a college degree in literature that when she wasn't making movies she went back to her roots to study at Ohio State University. |
15 | Was a 1944 graduate of East Canton High School in East Canton, Ohio. |
16 | Is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California. |
17 | For her last acting role of Siobhan O'Dea on Murder, She Wrote (1984) she modeled her character after Greta Garbo as she was portraying a reclusive foreign actress who goes into seclusion following the demise of her lover. |
18 | She was considered for the female leads in Samson and Delilah (1949), Portrait of Jennie (1948), Designing Woman (1957), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), and The Gift of Love (1958). |
19 | Is of Welsh heritage. |
20 | In Italy her films were often dubbed by Lidia Simoneschi. She was occasionally dubbed by Dhia Cristiani, Micaela Giustiniani, and Andreina Pagnani. |
21 | Got the role of Polly Cutler in Niagara (1953) after Anne Baxter withdrew. |