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Actor Born: August 11, 1915 in Deer Lodge, MT Death: November 30, 2005 in Woodland Hills, CA Biography:While still a junior high student, American actress "Jean Parker" was discovered by MGM when she posed for a poster contest. Her first film under her MGM contract was "Divorce in the Family" (1932), and her first important film was "Rasputin and the Empress" (1933), in which the novice performer failed to wilt despite the formidable presence in the cast of Lionel, "John" and "Ethel Barrymore". Pretty and vivacious, Parker became the queen of the MGM B-pictures but never quite made it in the studio's top-drawer productions. Gaining a reputation of working quickly, efficiently and inexpensively, she became a valuable commodity on the independent-film market; two of her free-lance appearance, in Laurel and Hardy's "Flying Deuces" (1939) and director "Eddie Sutherland"'s ultra-sentimental "Beyond Tomorrow" (1940), are familiar public-domain additions to video stores throughout America. At Monogram in... Full Biography
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