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Jean Acker is a Actor American born on 23 october 1893 at Trenton (USA)

Jean Acker

Jean Acker
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Birth name Harriet Ackers
Nationality USA
Birth 23 october 1893 at Trenton (USA)
Death 16 august 1978 (at 84 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Jean Acker (October 23, 1893 – August 16, 1978) was an American film actress with a career dating from the silent film era through the 1950s. She was perhaps best known as the estranged wife of silent film star Rudolph Valentino.

Biography

Née Harriet Acker à Trenton d'un père métis Cherokee et d'une mère irlandaise, elle commence une carrière d'actrice au théâtre et au cinéma sur la côte Est des États-Unis à la Independent Moving Pictures Co. of America (IMP).

Jean Acker rejoint Hollywood en 1918 et devient l'amante d'Alla Nazimova, une actrice qui, grâce à ses relations, l'aide à décrocher des contrats. C'est à cette époque qu'elle devient une actrice reconnue et les années 1920 représentent l'apogée de sa carrière. Elle a une liaison avec Grace Darmond.

Elle rencontre Rudolph Valentino, encore peu connu, lors d'une fête au Hollywood Hotel et, moins de deux mois plus tard, elle l'épouse le 6 novembre 1919. Mais elle regrette vite cette union et empêche Rudolph d'entrer dans sa chambre durant la nuit de noces. Elle présente toutefois son mari à Alla Nazimova qui impose Rudolph Valentino dans La Dame aux camélias (Camille) comme partenaire.

Une procédure est entamée et le divorce est prononcé en 1921. Rudolph Valentino qui n'attend pas une année complète comme le prévoit la loi californienne pour se remarier avec Natacha Rambova au Mexique est poursuivi pour bigamie. De son côté, Jean Acker garde le nom de Valentino, ce qui a le don d'irriter ce dernier. En 1923 elle apparait au générique de The Woman in Chains de William P. Burt pour son dernier rôle de premier plan comme « Mrs. Rudolph Valentino » alors qu'ils sont divorcés depuis plus de deux ans et qu'il est remarié de manière officielle à Natacha Rambova. Cette même année elle apparaît sur les planches avec un sketch intitulé How She Won the Sheik (comment elle vainquit le Cheik).

Elle tourne encore dans deux seconds rôles pour des films muets en 1925 et 1927. Si elle poursuit sa carrière d'actrice jusqu'en 1955, elle n'apparaît plus que pour de la figuration et, la plupart du temps, elle n'est plus créditée aux génériques.

Jean Acker vit avec sa compagne Chloe Carter (21 juin 1903 - 28 octobre 1993) à Beverly Hills avec qui elle adopte un enfant. Elle décède le 16 août 1978 à l'âge de 84 ans.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jean Acker (35 films)

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Actress

How To Be Very, Very Popular, 1h29
Directed by Nunnally Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films based on plays, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Tommy Noonan, Charles Coburn, Orson Bean
Rating52% 2.6186352.6186352.6186352.6186352.618635
{Seen on-screen in opening scene: "San Francisco"} Stormy Tornado and Curly Flagg are two showgirls from a San Francisco cabaret who witness the murder of one of their fellow performers and can identify the killer. Not wanting to get mixed up in a murder rap, the girls flee the scene and hide out at Bristol College, disguising themselves as boys. However the need for attention makes the girls want to stand out in their stage costumes and then the trouble begins.
Young Man with Ideas, 1h24
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Glenn Ford, Ruth Roman, Denise Darcel, Nina Foch, Donna Corcoran, Ray Collins
Roles Party Guest
Rating59% 2.9966252.9966252.9966252.9966252.996625
Maxwell Webster is a Montana attorney whose career isn't going as well as wife Julie feels it should be. She gets tipsy at a country club and praises her husband's work in front of colleagues, then urges him to ask boss Edmund Jethrow for a partnership. Instead, he loses his job.
The Mating Season, 1h41
Directed by Mitchell Leisen, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter, Jan Sterling, Larry Keating
Roles figuration (non créditée)
Rating73% 3.6906753.6906753.6906753.6906753.690675
Ellen McNulty (Thelma Ritter) gives up her hamburger stand in New Jersey when the bank calls in her loan, and goes to visit her son Val (John Lund) in Ohio. Val has recently married a socialite, Maggie (Gene Tierney). To help Maggie put on a dinner party, Val has an employment service send a cook; Ellen arrives first, and Maggie mistakes her for the cook. Ellen, to avoid embarrassing Maggie, does not correct her. After the party, Val follows her home and persuades her to move in with them.
The Thin Man Goes Home, 1h40
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller
Actors William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson, Gloria DeHaven, Anne Revere, Harry Davenport
Roles Tart
Rating72% 3.6469753.6469753.6469753.6469753.646975
Nick and Nora visit Nick's parents (Lucile Watson and Harry Davenport) in Nick's hometown, Sycamore Springs, in New England. The residents are convinced that Nick is in town on an investigation, despite Nick's repeated denials. However, when aircraft factory employee Peter Berton (Ralph Brooks) seeks out Nick and is shot dead before he can reveal anything, Nick is on the case.
It's a Wonderful Life, 2h10
Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Christmas films, Films about religion, Films about angels, Alternate history films
Actors James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Thomas Mitchell, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles une citadine
Rating85% 4.298594.298594.298594.298594.29859
In Bedford Falls, New York, on Christmas Eve 1945, George Bailey is suicidal. Prayers for him reach Heaven. Clarence Odbody, Angel 2nd Class, is assigned to save George in order to earn his angel wings. To prepare Clarence, his superior Joseph shows flashbacks of George's life.
Spellbound
Spellbound (1945)
, 1h51
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming, John Emery
Roles une matrone
Rating74% 3.748943.748943.748943.748943.74894
The Fault... is Not in Our Stars, But in Ourselves...— William Shakespeare
Masquerade in Mexico, 1h36
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Córdova, Patric Knowles, Ann Dvorak, George Rigaud, Natalie Schafer
Roles Une invitée de la fête
Rating58% 2.910662.910662.910662.910662.91066
Ill on the flight to Mexico City, honest banker Tom Grant doesn't know that Angel O'Reilly, seated nearby, has slipped a diamond into his pocket. She is traveling with the decidedly dishonest Boris Cassal, smuggling the gem for him, but slips away at the customs checkpoint while Tom is detained.
Week-End at the Waldorf, 2h10
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Edward Arnold, Keenan Wynn
Rating65% 3.2961153.2961153.2961153.2961153.296115
The film focuses on various guests staying at New York City's famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Among them are lonely screen star Irene Malvern, in town with her maid Anna for a childhood friend's wedding and the premiere of her latest movie; war correspondent Chip Collyer, mistaken for a jewel thief by Irene but playing along to catch her attention; flyer Capt. James Hollis, wounded in World War II and facing perilous surgery in three days; wealthy shyster Martin X. Edley, who is trying to sign the Bey of Aribajan to a shady oil deal; Oliver Webson, a cub reporter for Collier's Weekly hoping to expose Edley; and bride-to-be Cynthia Drew, whose upcoming wedding is endangered by her belief her fiancé Bob is in love with Irene Malvern. Also on the scene are Bunny Smith, the hotel's stenographer/notary public, who hopes to escape her low income roots by marrying Edley, and reporter Randy Morton, who loiters in the lobby hoping to stumble upon a scoop for his newspaper.
Remember the Night, 1h34
Directed by Mitchell Leisen, Hal Walker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson, Willard Robertson, Sterling Holloway
Roles membre du jury (non créditée)
Rating75% 3.7968253.7968253.7968253.7968253.796825
Lee Leander (Barbara Stanwyck) is arrested during the Christmas holidays for trying to shoplift a bracelet from a New York jewelry shop. Assistant District Attorney John Sargeant (Fred MacMurray) is assigned to prosecute her. The trial begins just before Christmas, but rather than face a jury filled with the holiday spirit, he has the trial postponed. He generously posts her bail so she does not have to spend Christmas in jail.
My Favorite Wife, 1h28
Directed by Garson Kanin, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Ann Shoemaker, Scotty Beckett
Roles Témoin à la barre
Rating72% 3.646613.646613.646613.646613.64661
After seven years, lawyer Nick Arden (Cary Grant) has his wife Ellen (Irene Dunne), missing since her ship was lost, declared legally dead so he can marry Bianca (Gail Patrick). It turns out however that Ellen was merely shipwrecked on a deserted island, and has been rescued. When she returns home, she learns that Nick has just left on his honeymoon with his second wife.
Good Girls Go to Paris, 1h15
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Walter Connolly, Alan Curtis, Joan Perry, Isabel Jeans
Roles petit rôle non spécifié
Rating67% 3.3923853.3923853.3923853.3923853.392385
Jenny Swanson (Blondell) is a waitress in a small college town whose goal is to go to Paris. Jenny rationalizes a little gold-digging and blackmail to achieve her goal. She tries to explain this to the new professor Ronald Brooke (Douglas), and Brooke in turn tries to dissuade her from such schemes, telling her that "good girls go to Paris, too". When her first attempt at blackmailing ends with an attack of conscience and the necessity of leaving town. Instead of returning to her hometown as advised by Brooke, of whom she has grown fond, Jenny heads for New York. Brooke is also bound for New York where he is to marry the wealthy Sylvia Brand (Joan Perry).
A Star Is Born, 1h51
Directed by Jack Conway, William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about television
Actors Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, Andy Devine, May Robson, Lionel Stander
Roles une femme à l'avant-première
Rating72% 3.647763.647763.647763.647763.64776
North Dakota farmgirl Esther Victoria Blodgett (Janet Gaynor) yearns to become a Hollywood actress. Although her aunt and father discourage such thoughts, Esther's grandmother (May Robson) gives her her savings to follow her dream.
His Brother's Wife, 1h28
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Jean Hersholt, Joseph Calleia, John Eldredge, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Miss Benson, une nurse (non créditée)
Rating57% 2.853432.853432.853432.853432.85343
At the Rothmore Institute in New York City, Professor Fahrenheim (Jean Hersholt) prepares to travel to the jungles of South America on a two-year project to find a cure for spotted fever, which has been ravaging the Rothmore Mines. Fahrenheim's research assistant, Chris Claybourne (Robert Taylor), agrees to accompany him, but insists on taking a few weeks off before the trip in order to have some fun. Chris ends up at a gambling club run by a crooked mobster name "Fish-Eye" and soon loses five thousand dollars on credit. That night, Chris meets beautiful model Rita Wilson (Barbara Stanwyck), who tags along on his gambling spree. In the coming days, the two fall in love, and when she learns that he will soon be leaving for the jungle, she persuades him to stay.