Parker, Jean (1915–2005)
Parker, Jean (1915–2005)
American stage and screen actress. Born Lois Mae Green, Aug 11, 1915, in Deer Lodge, Powell Co., Montana; dau. of Louis Green (gunsmith and hunter) and Melvina Burch; died Nov 30, 2005, in Los Angeles, California; m. George McDonald (actor), 1936 (div. 1940); m. Douglas Dawson (asst. director), 1941 (div. 1943); m. Curtis Grotter, 1944 (div. 1949); m. Robert Lowery (actor), 1951 (div. 1957).
Made film debut in Divorce in the Family (1932), followed by Gabriel Over the White House, The Ghost Goes West, Sequoia, Little Women, Operator 13, Limehouse Blues, Deerslayer, Bluebeard, The Gunfighter, Those Redheads from Seattle and Stigma, among others; starred on Broadway in Loco (1946).
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