Jean Brooks
Nacimiento : 1915-12-23, Houston, Texas
Muerte : 1963-11-25
Historia
Fluent in Spanish, Jean Brooks began professionally by singing with Enric Madriguera and Orchestra in New York. She had a small role in the New York City-filmed The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935) and the second lead in a Broadway play, "Name Your Poison" (1938), with Lenore Ulric, all under her real name of Jeanne Kelly. She was signed by an independent film production company that had gone under by the time she got to Hollywood. She spent several years at Universal as a leading lady in "B" pictures, including several Johnny Mack Brown westerns, but her option was dropped in late 1941. By this time she had married writer (later director) Richard Brooks and, with a certain Broadway hoofer having just signed at MGM, dropped the Kelly and became Jean Brooks. She signed with RKO, where film buffs know her for her three appearances for cult producer Val Lewton, particularly her stunning performance as a haunted devil worshiper in The Seventh Victim (1943).
Her clipped delivery and intense, forceful acting style made her a promising bet for stardom, but RKO lost interest in her by mid-'44 and her roles got gradually smaller until she was dropped in 1946. She and Brooks divorced (his later studio biographies omitted her name as one of his ex-wives). For many years she was listed as a "Lost Player" championed in several magazine articles by writer Doug McClelland. She was eventually located in San Francisco, where she had moved after her film career petered out, and was employed as a classified ad solicitor on the "San Francisco Examiner" newspaper. She had married a printer called Leddy. Her death at the Kaiser Hospital in Richmond, California, in 1963 was due to nutritional problems caused by alcoholism, a sad ending for a stylish and talented performer who didn't get the breaks she deserved, both personally and professionally.
Date of Death 25 November 1963, Richmond, California (extreme malnutrition & alcoholism)
Maya
During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.
Marsha
Un piloto a punto de irse a la guerra conoce a Louise, una cantante de la que se enamora. Ella le deja que pinte su imagen, la "Bamboo Blonde", en el avión con el que se enfrentará a la flota japonesa del Pacífico.
Baroness Lena
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.
Barbara Borden
Después de casi atropellarlo con su taxi, Patty Mitchell recoge un pasajero que dice tener amnesia. A medida que el extraño trata de recordar los hechos básicos de su identidad, Patty va interesando por él y decide ayudarlo. Pero, conforme las piezas del rompecabezas van cayendo en su lugar y el interés de Patty se vuelve más personal, él descubre que es el principal sospechoso en un caso de asesinato.
Roxanna Miles
El detective Tom Lawrence, conocido como El Halcón, llega a Hollywood para pasar unos días de descanso, pero se verá involucrado en el asesinado de un actor de cine. No faltan los sospechosos: la diseñador de vestuario, con la que estaba casado, un tiránico director, una joven y guapa actriz francesa, un productor que siempre cita a Shakespeare e, incluso, un gangster de Nueva York. Ayudando al Halcón a resolver el crimen hay una bonita taxista y un par de policías torpes.
Mary Hauser Coates
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), todos los hombres útiles fueron reclutados por el ejército para ir al frente. Mientras que en las fábricas se hacían turnos de veinticuatro horas, los adolescentes pululaban a sus anchas por las calles trapicheando sin temor a reprimendas. Un soldado herido, que regresa a casa, decide abrir un centro de acogida para enseñar a los chicos a encauzar sus vidas y ofrecerles la oportunidad de conseguir su primer trabajo.
Julie Arden
A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.
Vicky Gaines
La Estudiante de un selecto internado de señoritas Jane Harris (Amelita Ward), hará todo lo posible para que el halcón investige el presunto asesinato de un profesor del centro. El docente ha muerto en extrañas circunstancias, y el halcón se hará cargo de la investigación dentro del campus.
Jacqueline Gibson
Mary (Kim Hunter), una joven provinciana, decide ir a Nueva York para buscar a su hermana Jacqueline (Jean Brooks), que ha desaparecido. Con la ayuda de su ex marido (Tom Conway) y de un prestigioso psiquiatra, Mary descubre horrorizada que la desaparición de su hermana está relacionada con una secta satánica. (FILMAFFINITY)
Iris Fairchild
Un avión de pasajeros, el vuelo 65 de Washington DC sufre un accidente y se estrella al aterrizar, cuando llegan los equipos de rescate se encuentran un avión completamente vacío. La tripulación, los pasajeros y $ 100.000 en valores de títulos han desaparecido, este será el detonante para que el hálcon (Tom Conway) con la ayuda de su prometida de Texas, Bonnie (Amelita Ward), acometa el caso más extraño que jamás ha investigado.
Kiki Walker
Algunos habitantes de una pequeña ciudad de Nuevo México aparecen muertos. El principal sospechoso es un enorme leopardo.
Iris Moore
Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for character actors who aspired to occasional leading roles. In Boss of Big Town, veteran supporting player John Litel is top-billed as crusading city market official Michael Lynn. When a criminal gang muscles in on the local food distribution markets, Lynn vows to throw the rascals out. First, however, he pretends to join the villains as a paid government stooge, the better to find out the identity of the "Mister Big" behind the distribution racket. The exposure of the "mystery villain" will come as a shock to fans of the 1927 Cecil B. DeMille epic The King of Kings--but not to dyed-in-the-wool movie buffs.
May Meadows
Bolton's men blow up the wagon carrying the mine payroll and Marshal Crash Corrigan is supposedly killed in the explosion. A man finds his badge and gives it to Bolton. Thinking Crash dead, Bolton gives the badge away and it ends up with the Sheriff. Crash is OK and the Range Busters know Bolton is the head of the gang but that he gets his orders from someone else and that is the man they want.
Rae Langton
In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself cared for by a lovely woman. He gets a chance to reclaim his self-esteem when her son suddenly needs the same operation the surgeon botched.
Linda Tyler (as Jeanne Kelly)
Johnny Mack Brown essays the title role in Universal's Fighting Bill Forgo. Returning to his home town, Bill Fargo takes over the operation of his late father's newspaper. He quickly gets swept up in political intrigue fomented by political boss Hackett (Kenneth Harlan), who has a cute habit of rubbing out any and all honest candidates for the sheriff's office.
Bella Union Girl
Bob Holliday, propietario de un saloon, envía a su hermano Jim al este para que le traiga a su prometida. Pero durante el camino, Jim se enamora de ella y ambos se casan antes de regresar a su hogar.
Linda Thompson
A sheriff tries to prevent a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders.
Anne Bennett (as Jeanne Kelly)
Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients range from slightly daffy to criminally insane, and they don't know which is which. A gang is out to steal a fortune inherited by one of the patients and, before Dick and Andy solve the case, several patients are transferred to the cemetery. And 'tiddlie-winks" are indeed involved.
Mary Morgan (as Jeanne Kelly)
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones. The latter contributed deadpan humor to the proceedings, making Jones perhaps the highest paid B-western comedy relief in history. The two heroes defend the Death Valley borax miners from an outlaw gang headed by Wolf Reade. An extraordinarily strong cast -- for a serial, at least -- supported the stars, headed by Charles Bickford as Reade, Leo Carillo, Lon Chaney, Jr., and silent screen star Monte Blue. Leading lady Jeanne Kelly later changed her name to Jean Brooks and starred in the atmospheric RKO thriller The Seventh Victim (1943). Universal claimed to have spent $1 million on this serial and made sure to get their money's worth by endlessly recycling the action footage in serials and B-westerns for years to come.
Madge Reilly (as Jeanne Kelly)
A comedy about a man who tries to avoid giving up the $10,000,000 trust he's been administering so well that there's hardly any money left.
Camp Hostess
Bud y Lou se alistan en el ejército para poder escaparse de la cárcel; lo que ignoran es que en el cuartel se encontraran con un instructor de armas tomar.
Gloria Manning
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
Waitress
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
Laura Larson (as Jeanne Kelly)
A secretary sends a coded plea for help in her monthly report; two detectives investigate and find out that men are jailed on phony charges, forced to work in oil fields and then murdered if they try to escape.
Eris Brooke (as Jeanne Kelly)
In this exciting western, Roaring Dan is the meanest old cuss around. He and his "son" are constantly bickering. But things are not as they seem as the young man is only pretending to be Dan's son so they can find the killers of the young man's real father. Among the guilty are two women.
Olga (uncredited)
Miniserie de TV. 12 episodios. En el planeta Mongo, Flash Gordon, Dale Arden y el Dr. Zarkov batallan contra la Plaga de la Muerte Púrpura, intentando reestablecer en el poder al príncipe Barin. Tercero y último serial de la Universal Pictures basado en el inmortal personaje creado por la pluma y el pincel de Alex Raymond. Los dos previos eran "Flash Gordon" (1936) y "Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars" (1938).
Minor Role (uncredited)
Un hombre que va a ser ejecutado, acusado del asesinato de su hermano, recibe la visita del Dr. Griffin, hermano del científico que años atrás descubrió la fórmula de invisibilidad. El condenado huye gracias a que se hace invisible, y trata de demostrar su inocencia, pero la locura que va unida a los efectos secundarios de la fórmula para ser invisible harán acto de presencia...
Nina
On Christmas Eve in the Spanish quarter of L.A. police try to arrest a couple running a shady floor show. Hiding in a church, the girl finds an abandoned baby and uses it as cover to escape capture.
Gloria Cunningham
Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweetheart, Detective Lieutenant Jerry Brown, chief of the police Homicide Squad. When the call comes in that there has been a killing at Lefty Ross' place, a notorious gambling joint, Jerry is peeved when Sue beats him there. He discovers that gambler Jimmy Clark was killed as he answered a telephone call, and his body is riddled with bullets but Jerry can't find any weapon. Sue is amazed to see Gloria Cunningham there. Gloria's father is one of the town's leading reformers and she is engaged to District Attorney Richard Sutton. Ross decides to give Sutton all the information he needs and makes an appointment to go to Sutton's home. Once there, Ross is called to the telephone before he can give any information, and is killed in the same mysterious manner as Jimmy Clark.
Cabaret Girl
The story of a woman, Frankie, and the man who has done her wrong, Johnnie.
Nurse Gordon (as Jeanne Kelly)
A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, in order to bury them alive.
Young Ship's Passenger on Lower Deck (uncredited)
Ricardo Fuentes (Carlos Gardel) leaves Buenos Aires after loosing in horse races to go to Barcelona, where he plans to open a tango bar, a new concept of tango dance show and dance saloon. On the ship he meets Laura Montalván (Rosita Moreno) who happens to be a thief working with a thief pal. Ricardo watches them robbing a lady's bracelet aboard but decides not to report them because he has fallen in love with Laura. Once in Barcelona, he opens the tango bar but Laura's partner tells him he sold the bracelet and now needs to recover it to avoid both Laura and him going to jail.
A sailor, known as the Adventurer, searching for a lost American explorer discovers him being held hostage on a remote island in the South Sea. The man is held captive by the island's natives, who have placed him under a voodoo spell known as "obeah.
