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Jean Heather is a Actor American born on 21 february 1921 at Omaha (USA)
Jean Heather (February 21, 1921 – October 29, 1995) was an American actress who featured in eight feature films during the 1940s.
Her most remembered role is likely from the classic 1944 crime drama Double Indemnity, in which she played Lola Dietrichson, a young woman convinced that her stepmother Phyllis (Barbara Stanwyck) is responsible for the murder of Lola's father.
Heather attended Oregon State University, 1940-41. She transferred to the University of Washington in 1942 and early in the war was named "Canteen Dream Girl of the Northwest," by Marine, Navy, Army and Coast Guard camps in Washington state.
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Nationality USA
Birth 21 february 1921 at Omaha (USA)
Death 29 october 1995 (at 74 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 21 february 1921 at Omaha (USA)
Death 29 october 1995 (at 74 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Her most remembered role is likely from the classic 1944 crime drama Double Indemnity, in which she played Lola Dietrichson, a young woman convinced that her stepmother Phyllis (Barbara Stanwyck) is responsible for the murder of Lola's father.
Heather attended Oregon State University, 1940-41. She transferred to the University of Washington in 1942 and early in the war was named "Canteen Dream Girl of the Northwest," by Marine, Navy, Army and Coast Guard camps in Washington state.
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Red Stallion In The Rockies (1949)
, 1h25Directed by Ralph Murphy
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about horses
Actors Jean Heather, Jim Davis, Ray Collins, Wallace Ford, Arthur Franz, Leatrice Joy
Roles Cynthia 'Cindy' Smith
Rating52%
The Well Groomed Bride (1946)
, 1h15Directed by Sidney Lanfield, Oscar Rudolph, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Ray Milland, Sonny Tufts, James Gleason, Constance Dowling, Percy Kilbride
Roles Wickley
Rating57%
In the spring of 1945 in San Francisco, United States Navy lieutenant Dudley Briggs (Ray Milland) is promised a two-week furlough and a promotion by his ship's captain if he can acquire a bottle of French champagne by the next morning to be used in launching of the U.S.S. Vengeance, the Navy's newest aircraft carrier. Dudley heads to a liquor store and finds the last magnum of French champagne in the city—champagne having become rare during the war. Unfortunately, he loses the bottle to a beautiful young woman named Margie Dawson (Olivia de Havilland), who is about to be married to Army lieutenant Torchy McNeil (Sonny Tufts), an Oregon football star, whom she has not seen in two years. Margie plans to present the bottle as the centerpiece for her upcoming wedding reception.
Murder, He Says (1945)
, 1h31Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror, Crime
Actors Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main, Jean Heather, Porter Hall, Peter Whitney
Roles Elany Fleagle
Rating68%
Peter Marshall (Fred MacMurray), who works for the Trotter Poll ("like the Gallup Poll, but not as fast"), is sent out to find a missing co-worker, Hector Smedley. He goes to see the last family the man was supposed to interview, the nutty and murderous Fleagles. There he runs afoul of Mert and Bert Fleagle (both played by Peter Whitney), the gun-toting twin sons of Mamie Fleagle Smithers Johnson (Marjorie Main).
Double Indemnity (1944)
, 1h43Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about capital punishment
Actors Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Richard Gaines, Gig Young, Porter Hall
Roles Lola Dietrichson
Rating82%
Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), a successful insurance salesman, returns to his office building in downtown Los Angeles late one night. Visibly in pain, he begins dictating a confession into a Dictaphone for his friend and colleague, Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), a brilliant claims adjuster. The story, told primarily in flashback, ensues.
Going My Way (1944)
, 2h10Directed by Leo McCarey, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Risë Stevens, Frank McHugh, James Brown, James Brown
Roles Carol James
Rating69%
The film follows Father Charles “Chuck” O’Malley (Bing Crosby), an incoming priest from East St. Louis whose unconventional style transforms the parish life of St. Dominic’s Church in New York City.
, 1h21Directed by Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Gail Russell, Diana Lynn, Charles Ruggles, Dorothy Gish, Beulah Bondi, James Brown
Roles Frances Smithers
Rating66%
, 1h46Directed by Mark Sandrich, Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Paulette Goddard, Gail Russell, Diana Lynn, Sonny Tufts, Charles Ruggles, Beulah Bondi
Roles Frances Smithers
Rating61%