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Women in the Night

as Maya

1948
The Falcon's Alibi

as Baroness Lena

1946
The Bamboo Blonde

as Marsha

1946
Two O'Clock Courage

as Barbara Borden

1945
The Falcon in Hollywood

as Roxanna Miles

1944
A Night of Adventure

as Julie Arden

1944
The Seventh Victim

as Jacqueline Gibson

1943
The Leopard Man

as Kiki Walker

1943
The Falcon and the Co-Eds

as Vicky Gaines

1943
The Boss of Big Town

as Iris Moore

1942
A Dangerous Game

as Anne Bennett (as Jeanne Kelly)

1941
Riders of Death Valley

as Mary Morgan (as Jeanne Kelly)

1941
The Devil's Pipeline

as Laura Larson (as Jeanne Kelly)

1940
Son of Roaring Dan

as Eris Brooke (as Jeanne Kelly)

1940
Frankie and Johnnie

as Cabaret Girl

1936
The Crime of Doctor Crespi

as Nurse Gordon (as Jeanne Kelly)

1935
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Jean Brooks Jean Brooks

Birthday

1915-12-23

Place of Birth

Houston, Texas

Biography

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)
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