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Actor Born: June 26, 1922 in Cedarville, OH Biography:Ohioan "Eleanor Parker" chose a career in acting when she was still in her teens and began appearing in professional stage productions in Cleveland and at California's Pasadena Playhouse. Signed at Warner Bros. in 1941, the red-haired actress was given the slow buildup in such B's as "The Mysterious Doctor" before graduating to leads in prestige pictures like "Pride of the Marines" (1945). As the sluttish Mildred in the 1946 remake "Of Human Bondage", Parker was not nearly as effective as "Bette Davis" in the 1934 version, but she learned from this comparative failure and matured into a versatile actress, equally adept at comedy and heavy dramatics. She was Oscar nominated for "Caged" (1950), in which she plays an utterly deglamorized prison inmate; "Detective Story" (1951), wherein, as "Kirk Douglas"' wife, she agonizingly harbors the secret of a past abortion; and "Interrupted Melody" (1955), in... Full Biography
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