Jeanne Crain

These archives also hold the papers of Frank Capra, Ingrid Bergman, Clint Eastwood, and others. Dolores del Río has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1620 Vine Street, in recognition of her contributions to the motion picture industry. The Jeanne Crain collection resides perpetually at the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives in Middletown, Connecticut. She died from liver disease at Laguna Beach, California and was buried at in the Panteón de Dolores cemetery (no relation) in Mexico City. Crain's career is fully documented by an extraordinary collection of memorabilia about her assembled by the late Charles J. Finlay (longtime publicist at 20th Century-Fox). In 1960 she starred with Elvis Presley in the US Western Flaming Star directed by Don Siegel. a successful television executive, most known for his work on CBS TV's JAG. Crain was also survived by many grandchildren, nieces, and nephews. She was nominated for Mexico's Silver Ariel Award five times, winning two awards for her performances.

The Brinkmans were survived by five adult children, including, Paul Brinkman, Jr. She was soon approached by director Emilio Fernández, and she began making Spanish-language films that brought her great success in Mexico over the next twenty years. The couple outlived two of their children. She returned to Mexico in 1942. Crain is buried in the Brinkman family plot at Santa Barbara Cemetary. Her collaboration with Welles, Journey Into Fear (1942), was her last major Hollywood film. Crain's funeral Mass was held at the Old Santa Barbara Mission. An affair with Orson Welles was reported to have been the cause of her divorce from Gibbons in 1941.

Crain passed away a few months later and it was speculated that she died of a broken heart. With the advent of talkies she was usually relegated to exotic and unimportant roles, but scored successes with Flying Down to Rio (the film that launched the careers of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in 1933) and Madame DuBarry (1934). Brinkman's death in October of 2003. In 1930, she married Cedric Gibbons, one of MGM's leading art directors and production designers. As a lifelong devout Catholic, Jeanne Crain Brinkman and her husband Paul remained married, though they lived separately in Santa Barbara, California, until Mr. She came to be admired as one of the most beautiful women on screen, and her career flourished until the end of the silent era. Crain obtained an interlocutory divorce decree, each spouse claiming the other had been unfaithful (she also claimed Brinkman had been abusive), but the couple reconciled on the eve of their 11th wedding anniversary. She was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, but initially struggled to overcome prejudice.

The marriage was rocky for some years. The marriage ended in divorce but del Río retained her married name, continued to pursue a career as an actress, and made her first film appearance in 1925. Crain and her husband Brinkman bought a large, lovely home for their growing family on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills (The home can be seen and is described by Bette Davis in candid footage of a driving sequence in the 1952 now cult-classic, The Star). In 1921 she married Jaime del Río, and through a Hollywood friend the couple emigrated to the USA with the plan of establishing showbusiness careers for themselves: screenwriter and actress, respectively. During the early 1950s, Crain was earning approx. $3,500 per week. Her wealthy family lost all their assets during the Mexican Revolution, and a desire to restore her comfortable lifestyle inspired her to follow a career as an actress. Against her mother's wishes, Crain married former RKO Studios contract player Paul Brinkman on December 31, 1946; the first of their 7 children was born the following April. Born Dolores Martínez Asúnsolo y López Negrete in Durango, Mexico, del Río was the cousin of actor Ramón Novarro.

Her last role was in Skyjacked in 1972. She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and became an important actress in Mexican films later in her life. Crain was captivating as Nefertiti in the 1961 Italian production of Queen of the Nile, with Edmund Purdom and Vincent Price. Dolores del Río (August 3, 1905 - April 11, 1983) was a Mexican film actress. Roles became fewer in the 1960s as Crain went into semi-retirement. Gentlemen Marry Brunettes was popular throughout Europe at the time and was released under the Belgian title, A Paris Pour les Quatre ("Paris For The Four").

The film was based on the Anita Loos novel that was a sequel to her acclaimed Gentleman Prefer Blondes. The production was filmed on location in Paris and Crain's singing in the film was dubbed, as was customary. Also in 1955, Crain also showed off her lively dancing abilities in Gentleman Marry Brunettes, co-starring Jane Russell and Rudy Vallee. Crain then starred in a string of pictures for Universal, including notable pairings with Kirk Douglas, such as Man Without a Star (1955).

Mankiewicz production of People Will Talk (1951). In the 1950s, Crain paired up with Cary Grant, for the Joseph L. Zanuck chose to cast a white actress for box-office reasons. Although Lena Horne and other black actresses were considered for the role, Darryl F.

Pinky was a controversial movie, since it told the story of a girl who passes for white in the northern United States. In 1945 she starred in State Fair, and in 1949 in three films,A Letter to Three Wives, The Fan and Pinky, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1943 she starred in Home in Indiana, and in 1944 in In the Meantime, Darling. Her acting was critically panned, but she rebounded in the hit Winged Victory. During World War II, Crain's fan mail was second in volume only to that of Betty Grable. She did not get the part, but at the age of 18, she appeared in a bit part in the movie The Gang's All Here..

While still in high school, she was asked to make a screen test opposite Orson Welles. Born Jeanne Elizabeth Crain in Barstow, California, she moved to Los Angeles as a young child. Jeanne Crain (May 25, 1925 - December 14, 2003) was an American actress.