Jean Peters
Jean Peters
A onetime schoolteacher, Jean Peters was brought to Hollywood in 1946 upon winning a popularity contest in her home state of Ohio. She was signed to a 20th Century Fox contract and given star billing in her first film, Captain From Castile. With rare exceptions, Peters seldom played conventional ingénues; most of her characters were peppery, combative, and doggedly independent. After 1955's A Man Called Peter, Peters completely retired from films, having recently married billionaire Howard Hughes in a secret ceremony. The union was as bizarre as anything else in Hughes' life; he and Peters lived separately and rarely saw each other, conducting most of their tête-à-tête by telephone or through intermediaries. Only when Peters divorced Hughes in 1971 did she reemerge in the public eye. Two years later, Jean Peters briefly jump-started her acting career with her performance in the PBS TV drama Winesburg, Ohio. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Jean Peters:
- Vicki with Jeanne Crain , Richard Boone , Alex D'Arcy , Carl Betz , Aaron Spelling , Parley Baer , Stuart Randall , John Dehner , Harry Seymour , Charles Wagenheim , Al Hill
- Apache with Burt Lancaster , John McIntire , John Dehner , Monte Blue
- O. Henry's Full House with Charles Laughton , Marilyn Monroe , David Wayne , Richard Widmark , Anne Baxter , Dale "Robin" Robertson , Fred Allen , Jeanne Crain , Gregory Ratoff , Oscar Levant , Farley Granger , Robert Easton , Fritz Feld , James Flavin , Kathleen Freeman , Frank Jaquet , Norman Leavitt , Stuart Randall , Sig Rumann , Ruth Warren , Billy Wayne , Will Wright , Hal Smith , Warren Stevens
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