Jeanne Crain’s ascent to movie stardom in the 1940s had all the earmarks of the classic local-girl-becomes-Hollywood-star story. Her parents, George Crain and Loretta Carr, met while he was a ...

Jeanne Crain, the winsome beauty who starred in lightweight 1940s romances and comedies such as “Margie” and “An Apartment for Peggy” and earned an Academy Award nomination as a black girl ...

Jeanne Crain, 78, an ingenue of 1940s films who was often dismissed as a "glamorous mannequin" until impressing critics as a black woman passing for white in "Pinky" and a socially insecure spouse ...

Jeanne Crain, the winsome beauty who starred in lightweight 1940s romances and comedies and won an Academy Award nomination as a black girl passing for white in the controversial "Pinky," has died.

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Today, TCM’s Summer Under the Stars is celebrating actress Jeanne Crain with a 12-film lineup that includes the network premiere of The Tattered Dress, on its 67th anniversary. The Tattered ...

Jeanne Crain, the winsome beauty who starred in lightweight 1940s romances and comedies such as ” Margie ” and ” Apartment for Peggy ” and won an Academy Award nomination as the black girl ...

Jeanne Crain might have made art a career had it not been for the amateur theatricals in which she appeared as a teenager. Those theatricals were in Southern California, where she was born ...