Item #70-0105 Jean Parker. 20th Century Photographer.
[20th Century Photographer]

Jean Parker.

London: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [Ca. 1930s]. Original B&W photograph. 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Very Good+. Printed on verso: "Picturegoer" Series, 85, Long Acre, London; No. 810. Made in Great Britain. Scarce.

Jean Parker (born Lois May Green; August 11, 1915 – November 30, 2005) was an American film and stage actress. A native of Montana, Parker's parents were indigent during the Great Depression, and she was adopted by a family in Pasadena, California at age 10. She initially aspired to have a career as an illustrator and artist, and was discovered at age 17 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executive Louis B. Mayer after a photograph of her was published in a Los Angeles newspaper following her winning a poster contest. She made her feature film debut in the pre-code drama Divorce in the Family (1932), before being loaned to Columbia Pictures, who cast her in Frank Capra's Lady for a Day (1933). The same year, she starred as Elizabeth March in George Cukor's adaptation of Little Women opposite Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, and Frances Dee. Subsequent roles included lead parts in the drama Sequoia (1934), and in the British comedy-fantasy The Ghost Goes West (1935). Item #70-0105

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