Jean Peters

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Jean Peters

Jean Peters in A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
Born Elizabeth Jean Peters
October 15, 1926(1926-10-15)
Canton, Ohio
Died October 13, 2000 (aged 73)
Carlsbad, California
Spouse(s) Stuart W. Cramer III (1954-?)
Howard Hughes (1957-1971)
Stanley Hough (1971-1990)

Jean Peters (October 15, 1926 – October 13, 2000) was an American actress.

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[edit] Early life and career

Born Elizabeth Jean Peters in Canton, Ohio, she was the daughter of Elizabeth and Geral Peters, a laundry manager. Raised in Canton, Peters attended the University of Michigan and later Ohio State University. While studying for a teaching degree at Ohio State, she entered the Miss Ohio State Pageant in the fall of 1945. Among the twelve finalists, Peters won. Sponsored by photographer Paul Robinson of the "House of Portraits", her grand prize was a screen test with 20th Century-Fox. As her agent, Robinson accompanied her to Hollywood, and helped her secure a contract with Fox.

For her first feature role, she was selected to replace Linda Darnell as the female lead in Captain from Castile (1947) opposite Tyrone Power, when Darnell was reassigned to save the production of Forever Amber. Captain from Castile was a hit, and Leonard Maltin wrote that afterwards Peters spent the new decade playing "sexy spitfires, often in period dramas and Westerns." Director Samuel Fuller chose Peters over Marilyn Monroe for the part of Candy in 1953's Pickup on South Street. He thought Peters had the right blend of sex appeal and the tough-talking, streetwise characteristics he was seeking, and that Monroe was too innocent looking for the role. Peters and Monroe starred together in another 1953 film noir, Niagara.

Jean Peters in Viva Zapata! (1952)

[edit] Personal life and death

In 1957, after her divorce from her first husband, Texas oilman Stuart Cramer, Peters married Howard Hughes, shortly before he faded from public view and became an eccentric recluse. She retired from acting during the marriage. In 1971, Peters and Hughes divorced. She agreed to a lifetime alimony payment of $70,000 annually, adjusted for inflation, and she waived all claims to Hughes' estate. That same year, she married Stanley Hough, an executive with Twentieth-Century Fox.

Peters died of leukemia in 2000 in Carlsbad, California, two days before her 74th birthday.

Peters mending Joseph Cotten's hand in Niagara (1953)
Peters in the trailer for the film Broken Lance (1954)

[edit] Filmography

Film
Year Film Role Notes
1947 Captain from Castile Catana Perez
1948 Deep Waters Ann Freeman
1949 It Happens Every Spring Deborah Greenleaf
1950 Love That Brute Ruth Manning
1951 As Young as You Feel Alice Hodges
Take Care of My Little Girl Dallas Prewitt
Anne of the Indies Captain Anne Providence
1952 Viva Zapata! Josefa Zapata
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie Nellie Halper
Lure of the Wilderness Laurie Harper
O. Henry's Full House Susan Goodwin (The Last Leaf)
1953 Niagara Polly Cutler
Pickup on South Street Candy
Vicki Vicki Lynn
A Blueprint for Murder Lynne Cameron
1954 Three Coins in the Fountain Anita Hutchins
Apache Nalinle
Broken Lance Barbara
1955 A Man Called Peter Catherine Wood Marshall
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1973 Winesburg, Ohio Elizabeth Willard Television movie
1976 The Moneychangers Beatrice Heyward Miniseries
1981 Peter and Paul Priscilla Television movie
1988 Murder, She Wrote Siobhan O'Dea 1 episode

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