Jean crain biography
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Crain, Jeanne Elizabeth
(b. 25 May 1925 in Barstow, California; d.
Jean crain biography
14 December 2003 in Santa Barbara, California), film actress in girl-next-door roles who received an Academy Award nomination for her dramatic performance in Pinky (1949).
The daughter of George A. Crain, an educator, and Loretta (Carr) Crain, a homemaker, Crain had one sibling.
Soon after Crain’s birth, the family moved to Los Angeles, where her father became the head of the language department at Inglewood High School, from which Crain graduated. Crain told interviewers that she first thought of becoming an actress in the eighth grade while playing a facially scarred Indian in Scarface.
She continued to act in school productions. In 1940, when she was fifteen years old and touring the RKO studio on a class trip, Crain was seen by the actor and director Orson Welles, who asked her to take a screen test for the role of Lucy in his upcoming film The Magnificent Ambersons (1942).
Crain, “petrified” by the