Cheaper by the Dozen
1950
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Dec 21, 2003 · Crain remains enjoyable to watch, but time, which is today's barometer of the past, has not been kind. Part of the problem is that Crain was among the last of the girls next door, a group that included June Allyson, Doris Day, Joan Leslie and the Judy Garland of the '40s -- sunny, irrepressible and so sweet that they embodied post-war American ...
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 (1949). She also starred in the films In the Meantime, Darling (1944), State Fair (1945), Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Centennial Summer (1946), Margie (1946), Apartment for ...
(See previous post: “Jeanne Crain: From ‘Pinky’ Inanity to ‘Margie’ Magic.”)Unlike her characters in Margie, Home in Indiana, State Fair, Centennial Summer, The Fan, and Cheaper by the Dozen (and its sequel, Belles on Their Toes), or even in the more complex A Letter to Three Wives and People Will Talk, Jeanne Crain didn’t find a romantic Happy Ending in real life.
Jeanne Crain was born on May 25, 1925 Elizabeth Jeanne Crain in Barstow, California, a small town in the Mojave Desert. She grew up in Los Angeles where the family had moved after her birth. Her father was an Irish high-school teacher named George A. Crain who later became the head of the English department of the ‘Inglewood High School’ in ...
14 December 03. as Jeanne Crain Brinkman, she dies at age 78 of a heart attack at her Santa Barbara, California, home early Sunday morning. She is survived by her sons, Paul, Jr., and Timothy Brinkman, and three daughters, Jeanine Brinkman, Lisa Binstock, and Maria Brinkman.
Dec 15, 2003 · Dec. 15, 2003 12 AM PT. Associated Press. Jeanne Crain, the winsome beauty who starred in lightweight 1940s romances and comedies such as “Margie” and “An Apartment for Peggy” and earned ...
Jeanne Crain. Actress: Pinky. Jeanne Crain was born in Barstow, California, on May 25, 1925. 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.
