Jean Peters

Infobox Actor
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caption = Jean Peters in "A Blueprint for Murder" (1953)
birthname = Elizabeth Jean Peters
birthdate = birth date|1926|10|15|mf=y
location = Canton, Ohio
deathdate = death date and age|2000|10|13|1926|10|15|mf=y
deathplace = Carlsbad, California
spouse = Stuart W. Cramer III (m.1954)
Howard Hughes (1957-1971)
Stanley Hough (1971-1990)

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

Peters parents were Geral and Elizabeth Peters. Her Father was a laundry manager. She grew up in a farming family in Canton, Ohio. Ms. Peters attended the University of Michigan and later Ohio State University.Whilst studying for a teaching degree at Ohio State University, a friend of Peters entered her photo in the Ohio state beauty contest which Peters won, the prize being a screen test for 20th Century-Fox. Her first film, 1947's "Captain from Castile" with Tyrone Power was a hit, and Leonard Maltin writes 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."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 (USD) 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.The usually-paranoid Hughes surprised his aides when he did not insist on a confidentiality agreement from Peters as a condition of divorce; aides reported Peters was one of the few people Hughes never disparaged. Peters refused to discuss her life with Hughes, and declined several lucrative offers to do so. She would state only that she had not seen Hughes for several years before their divorce. Peters returned to acting with a few roles on television.

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

Filmography

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

External links

*imdb name|id=0676492|name=Jean Peters
* [http://filmjournal.net/jackalsfilmcorner/2007/10/16/jean-peters-biography-of-a-forgotten-leading-lady/ Jean Peters: biography of a forgotten leading lady] , jackal’s film corner, October 16, 2007
* [http://film.guardian.co.uk/print/0%2C3858%2C4080605-103684%2C00.html Jean Peters biography] at Guardian Unlimited Film
* [http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/person.jsp?id=28884 Reviews of Jean Peters movies] at Channel 4 Film
*Find A Grave|id=6053584

Persondata
NAME= Peters, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Peters, Elizabeth Jean
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Actress
DATE OF BIRTH= October 15, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH= Canton, Ohio
DATE OF DEATH= October 13, 2000
PLACE OF DEATH= Carlsbad, California