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Jean Peters is a Actor American born on 15 october 1926 at Canton (USA)

Jean Peters

Jean Peters
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Birth name Elizabeth Jean Peters
Nationality USA
Birth 15 october 1926 at Canton (USA)
Death 13 october 2000 (at 73 years) at Carlsbad (USA)

Jean Peters (October 15, 1926 – October 13, 2000) was an American actress, known as a star of 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and as the second (or possibly third) wife of Howard Hughes. Although possibly best remembered for her siren role in Pickup on South Street (1953), Peters was known for her resistance to being turned into a sex symbol. She preferred to play unglamorous, down-to-earth women.

Biography

Débuts
Jean Peters (Elizabeth Jean Peters) est née le 15 octobre 1926 à Canton (État de l’Ohio). À l’âge de 20 ans, elle est élue miss Ohio, concours dont le prix est un voyage à Hollywood. Engagée par la Twentieth Century Fox, elle débute dans Capitaine de Castille, un film de Henry King, d’après le roman de Samuel Shellabarger , dans lequel elle a pour partenaire Tyrone Power. Le triomphe de cette première apparition lance sa carrière.


Carrière
Le succès de ce premier film lui permet de tourner sans discontinuer jusqu’en 1955. En 1948, c’est Deep Waters avec le même Henry King qui la dirigera une fois encore dans Wait Till The Sun Shines, Nellie!, en 1952. En 1949, elle tourne It Happens Every Spring de Lloyd Bacon et en 1950 Ma brute chérie de Alexander Hall. Pour Jacques Tourneur, elle est La Flibustière des Antilles, un film d’aventure tiré du roman de Herbert Ravenel Sass, en 1951. Cette même année on la retrouve dans Take Care of My Little Girl de Jean Negulesco et Rendez-moi ma femme de Harmon Jones, avec aussi Marilyn Monroe.

L’année suivante elle apparaît dans quatre films, dont la fresque Viva Zapata! d'Elia Kazan, aux côtés de Marlon Brando et Anthony Quinn. La Sarabande des pantins est un film à sketches dont The Last Leaf, réalisé par Negulesco. Avec le même réalisateur, elle tourne dans Prisonniers du marais, puis elle enchaîne avec Le Port de la drogue de Samuel Fuller dans lequel elle donne la réplique à Richard Widmark.

En 1953, après Vicky de Harry Horner, c’est Niagara de Henry Hathaway où elle retrouve Marilyn, un film policier qui a pour cadre les célèbres chutes. L’année suivante, dernier film avec Negulesco, La Fontaine des amours et deux grands westerns : La Lance brisée d’Edward Dmytryk avec Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner et Richard Widmark, un remake de La Maison des étrangers et Bronco Apache de Robert Aldrich, un film pro-indien où elle joue aux côtés de Burt Lancaster et Charles Bronson.

Sa carrière cinématographique s’achève en 1955 avec A Man Called Peter de Henry Koster.

En 1957, elle épouse le milliardaire Howard Hughes, dont elle divorce en 1971 pour se remarier avec le producteur et directeur de la Fox, Stanley Hough.

Entre 1973 et 1981 elle ne fait que quelques apparitions à la télévision.

Elle décède des suites d’une leucémie, le 13 octobre 2000, à Carlsbad (Californie).

Best films

Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
(Actress)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
(Actress)
Deep Waters (1948)
(Actress)
Captain from Castile (1947)
(Actress)

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Filmography of Jean Peters (21 films)

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Actress

Little Big Man, 2h19
Directed by Arthur Penn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan, Cal Bellini
Rating74% 3.749633.749633.749633.749633.74963
In the present day, 121-year-old Jack Crabb, residing in a hospice, recounts his plentiful life story to a curious historian. Among other things, Crabb claims to have had been a captive of the Cheyenne, a gunslinger, an associate of Wild Bill Hickok, a scout for General George Armstrong Custer, and the sole white survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn.
A Man Called Peter, 1h59
Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Children's films
Actors Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau, Edward Earle, Jill Esmond, Les Tremayne
Roles Catherine Wood Marshall
Rating70% 3.5399153.5399153.5399153.5399153.539915
Apache
Apache (1954)
, 1h23
Directed by Robert Aldrich, Harold Hecht
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, John McIntire, Charles Bronson, John Dehner, Walter Sande
Roles Nalinle
Rating62% 3.1463353.1463353.1463353.1463353.146335
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. On the way he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his girl and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas though.
Broken Lance, 1h36
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Films about families, Children's films
Actors Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark, Katy Jurado, Hugh O'Brian
Roles Barbara
Rating68% 3.444933.444933.444933.444933.44493
Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) is a ranch owner who has tried to raise his sons to carry on the fierce, hard-working Irish settlement spirit that helped make him a success. However, as a consequence, he never learned to show his three sons from his first marriage the affection they yearned for and treats his boys little better than the hired help.
Three Coins in the Fountain, 1h42
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Rossano Brazzi, Maggie McNamara
Roles Anita Hutchins
Rating61% 3.097853.097853.097853.097853.09785
A young American secretary, Maria Williams (Maggie McNamara), arrives in Rome and is greeted by Anita Hutchins (Jean Peters), the woman she is replacing at the United States Distribution Agency. They drive to the "Villa Eden" Anita shares with Miss Frances (Dorothy McGuire), the longtime secretary of the American author John Frederick Shadwell (Clifton Webb), an expatriate living in Rome for the past fifteen years. On their way into town, the three women stop at the famous Trevi Fountain. Frances and Anita tell Maria that according to legend, if she throws a coin in the fountain and makes a wish to return to Rome, she will. Maria and Francis throw in their coins, but Anita, who is returning to the United States to marry, declines.
Niagara
Niagara (1953)
, 1h32
Directed by Henry Hathaway, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter, Don Wilson (kickboxeur), Lurene Tuttle
Roles Polly Cutler
Rating69% 3.497743.497743.497743.497743.49774
Ray and Polly Cutler (Showalter and Peters) on a delayed honeymoon at Niagara Falls, find their reserved cabin occupied by George and Rose Loomis (Cotten and Monroe). Rose tells them that George is asleep at last, and has recently been discharged from an Army mental hospital. The Cutlers politely accept another, less desirable cabin, and so the two couples become acquainted.
A Blueprint for Murder, 1h17
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill, Catherine McLeod, Jack Kruschen, Barney Phillips
Roles Lynn Cameron
Rating66% 3.342643.342643.342643.342643.34264
Whitney "Cam" Cameron (Joseph Cotten) arrives at a hospital to be with his widowed sister-in-law Lynne (Jean Peters), whose stepdaughter Polly has died under mysterious circumstances. A doctor cannot determine the cause of the child's death.
Vicki
Vicki (1953)
, 1h25
Directed by Harry Horner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Elliott Reid, Richard Boone, Max Showalter, Aaron Spelling
Roles Vicki Lynn
Rating64% 3.2432653.2432653.2432653.2432653.243265
Vicki Lynn (Jean Peters) is a waitress who is transformed into a fashion model by press agent Steve Christopher (Elliott Reid). When Vicki is murdered, detective Ed Cornell (Richard Boone) tries to blame the crime on Christopher.
Pickup on South Street, 1h20
Directed by Samuel Fuller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Richard Kiley, Murvyn Vye, Willis Bouchey
Roles Candy
Rating75% 3.797583.797583.797583.797583.79758
On a crowded New York City subway train, pickpocket Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) steals Candy's (Jean Peters) wallet. Unbeknownst to Skip or Candy, in the wallet is microfilm of top-secret government information. Candy was delivering an envelope as a final favor to her ex-boyfriend, Joey (Richard Kiley). Joey told her it contains stolen business secrets,and she believed him, unaware that Joey is actually a communist spy.
Viva Zapata!, 1h53
Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman, Alan Reed, Margo
Roles Josefa
Rating72% 3.645983.645983.645983.645983.64598
Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) is part of a delegation sent to complain about injustices to corrupt longtime President Porfirio Díaz (Fay Roope), but Díaz dismisses their concerns, and tries to bribe their leader, offering him some land which Zapata rejects. As a result, Zapata is driven to open rebellion, along with his brother Eufemio (Anthony Quinn). He in the south and Pancho Villa (Alan Reed) in the north unite under the leadership of naive reformer Francisco Madero (Harold Gordon).
Lure of the Wilderness, 1h33
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith, Walter Brennan, Tom Tully, Harry Shannon
Roles Laurie Harper
Rating63% 3.189953.189953.189953.189953.18995
The film is set in the 1910s in Fargo, Georgia, near a dangerous swamp. Ben Tyler and his father Zack one day go into the swamp to search for two lost trappers. During an unsuccessful journey, Ben's dog Careless disappears while running after a deer. While looking for Careless, Ben is hit in the head by someone, and when he awakens, he finds himself captured by two primitive people, the old Jim Harper and his fierce, aggressive daughter Laurie.
O. Henry's Full House, 1h57
Directed by Henry King, Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Jean Negulesco, Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Christmas films, Children's films
Actors Anne Baxter, Jeanne Crain, Farley Granger, Charles Laughton, Oscar Levant, Marilyn Monroe
Roles Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")
Rating71% 3.5934453.5934453.5934453.5934453.593445
Voir ci-dessous les sections détaillées, les sketches n'ayant aucun rapport entre eux.
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie, 1h48
Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Jean Peters, David Wayne, Hugh Marlowe, Albert Dekker, Helene Stanley, Helene Stanley
Roles Nellie Halper
Rating70% 3.521593.521593.521593.521593.52159
Expecting to honeymoon in Chicago and live there, newlywed Nellie is disappointed when she and Ben Halper disembark from their train at a small town in Illinois, where he has chosen to live and run a barber shop.
Anne of the Indies, 1h21
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Children's films
Actors Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, Herbert Marshall, Thomas Gomez, James Robertson Justice
Roles Captaine Anne Providence
Rating65% 3.2939853.2939853.2939853.2939853.293985
After seizing a British ship, the female pirate captain Anne Providence (Jean Peters) spares Pierre LaRochelle (Louis Jourdan), a Frenchman captured by the British, from walking the plank. He agrees to join Providence's crew and soon she begins to fall for the handsome officer.