Jean Brooks
Stats
| Name: | Jean Brooks | |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Age: | 47 (December 23, 1915 -November 25, 1963) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| TMDB Popularity | 9.789 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | 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) |
Profile Picture
Movies
The Boss of Big Town
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smokingsides
She lights up at around the 35 minute mark after playing a piano. She taps a cigarette on her wrist, takes a drag, then talk exhales some of the smoke out before finishing it off with a proper exhale. The rest of the scene she holds and that's all she smokes sadly. |
The Falcon in Hollywood
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smokingsides
Barbara Hale and Tom Conway are in a hotel room looking for clues to a murder. Hale opens a cigarette box and takes out a cigarette. Conway walks over to her and gives her a light. |
The Leopard Man
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smokingsides
Jewell smokes unfiltered in three scenes: one walking (brief); second scene, constantly smoking as a gypsy and with dangling/long drags/deep inhales/ nose and mouth exhales with great lighting (Photography); third scene, walking with Margo's character and smoking. Margo has two scenes, unfiltered: one drag inhale/exhale and tosses it away; second scene, two great french inhales. Jean Brooks has two scenes as well: first, long drag and inhale so deep viewer can barely see the nose exhale; second, nice lighting scene (cigarette) open mouth inhale with exhale. Lastly, in one scene, a woman smoking with a holder edited into Margo's second scene. One of the best smoking movies I have ever seen for variety of women and styles. A good story, too. |
Two O'Clock Courage
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smokingsides
Bad editing cuts short Greer's light-up and two drags by Brooks. |
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