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Sweet, fresh-faced and pretty former beauty queen, who went to entered films as a 20th Century Fox starlet in 1943, before she was 20. From her earliest films ("State Fair" 1945, "Centennial Summer" 1946), Crain exclusively played wholesome, girl-next-door ingenues or young just-married women in a series of light entertainments, until she was cast against type in the Elia Kazan racial drama "Pinky" (1949), about a young black woman passing for white....
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Filmography

The Night God Screamed - ( / 1974 / Released / )
Skyjacked - ( Mrs Shaw / 1972 / Released / )
Madison Avenue - ( Peggy Shannon / 1962 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
Guns of the Timberland - ( Laura Riley / 1960 / Released / )
The Joker Is Wild - ( Letty Page / 1957 / Released / Paramount Pictures )
The Fastest Gun Alive - ( Dora Temple / 1956 / Released / )
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes - ( Connie Jones / 1955 / Released / United Artists Pictures Inc. )
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes - ( Mitzi Jones / 1955 / Released / United Artists Pictures Inc. )
Man Without a Star - ( Reed Bowman / 1955 / Released / Universal )
Duel in the Jungle - ( Marian Taylor / 1954 / Released / Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution )
Vicki - ( / 1953 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
O. Henry's Full House - ( / 1952 / Released / )
Cheaper by the Dozen - ( Ann Gilbreth / 1950 / Released / 20th Century Fox Studios )
Pinky - ( Pinky / 1949 / Released / )
A Letter to Three Wives - ( / 1948 / Released / )
Margie - ( / 1946 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
In the Meantime, Darling - ( / 1944 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )

TV Credits
Last of the Private Eyes ( 1963 / Released ): Actor

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Sweet, fresh-faced and pretty former beauty queen, who went to entered films as a 20th Century Fox starlet in 1943, before she was 20. From her earliest films ("State Fair" 1945, "Centennial Summer" 1946), Crain exclusively played wholesome, girl-next-door ingenues or young just-married women in a series of light entertainments, until she was cast against type in the Elia Kazan racial drama "Pinky" (1949), about a young black woman passing for white. In the 1950s, Crain's attempt to reshape her screen personality to a more glamourous image and more sophisticated fare met with only moderate success. She did appear in several interesting films, including Joseph L. Mankiewicz's "People Will Talk" (1951) and Jean Negulesco's "Take Care of My Little Girl" (1953). Her stardom petered out toward the end of the decade and her work since 1960 has been very sporadic. Married since 1945, she is the mother of seven children.

Profession(s):
Actor, model
Sometimes Credited As:
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Family
daughter:Jeanine Cherie Brinkman (born in March 1952)
daughter:Lisabett A Brinkman (born in November 1957)
daughter:Maria J Brinkman (born in January 1960)
father:George Crain (became head of English department at Inglewood High School in Los Angeles)
husband:Paul Brinkman (married on December 31, 1945; was sued for divorced in August 1956; reconciled in December 1956; former Warner Bros. and RKO contract player as Paul Brooks; executive with missile parts manufacturing company and later at helicopter concern)
sister:Rita Marie Crain (born in January 1927; served as Jeanne's stand-in during the mid-1940s)
son:Timothy Peter Brinkman (born in August 1950)
son:Paul Frederick Brinkman (born in April 1947)
son:Christopher Brinkman (born on May 25, 1965)
son:Michael Anthony Brinkman (born in January 1949)

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Education
St Mary's Academy
Inglewood High School
University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, California drama and art
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1944 Screen acting debut, "Home in Indiana"
1943 Screen debut (posing in a bathing suit) in "The Gang's All Here"
1942 Named 'Camera Girl of 1942'
1941 While in high school, tested by Orson Welles for Lucy (the Anne Baxter role) in "The Magnificent Ambersons"
1941 Named Miss Long Beach (the Miss California contest) and became runner-up in Miss America finals
1941 Won Interscholastic Shakespearean Contest held at Occidental College
1926 Family moved to Los Angeles (date approximate)
Beauty contests led to modeling on covers of CORONET, LADIES HOME JOURNAL and TRUE ROMANCE
Signed by 20th Century Fox for their starlet school

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