Jeanne Crain — Actor (18)
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O. Henry's Full House (1952) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
O. Henry's Full House
director: Henry Hathaway / Henry King … actor: Fred Allen / Anne Baxter …
other title: La giostra umana / Páginas da Vida …
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
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Twenty Plus Two (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Twenty Plus Two
director: Joseph M. Newman actor: David Janssen / Jeanne Crain …
other title: Começou em Tóquio
A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress?
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State Fair (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
State Fair
director: Walter Lang actor: Jeanne Crain / Dana Andrews …
other title: A Feira da Vida / Jahrmarkt der Liebe …
During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat and pickles contest...with hilarious results.
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The Second Greatest Sex (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Second Greatest Sex
director: George Marshall actor: Jeanne Crain / George Nader …
other title: Das gibt es nur in Kansas / El sexo fuerte
In 1880, Osawkie, Kansas is feuding with rival town Mandaroon over which will be county seat, keeping the town's men away from home most of the time. The last straw is when Matt Davis feels compelled to go on a new foray on his wedding night; his bride Liza (just call her Lysistrata) takes teacher Cassie's advice and organizes a marital strike to make the men-folk stop their nonsense.
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Pinky (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Pinky
director: Elia Kazan actor: Jeanne Crain / Ethel Barrymore …
other title: Pinky, la negra bianca / O Que a Carne Herda …
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
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Belles on Their Toes (1952) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Belles on Their Toes
director: Henry Levin actor: Jeanne Crain / Myrna Loy …
other title: Ragazze alla finestra / Im Dutzend heiratsfähig …
The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.
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The Tattered Dress (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Tattered Dress
director: Jack Arnold actor: Jeff Chandler / Jeanne Crain …
other title: Il vestito strappato / Kreuzverhör
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her dress in rags; murder results. Top New York defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly.
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Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Cheaper by the Dozen
director: Walter Lang actor: Clifton Webb / Jeanne Crain …
other title: Dodici lo chiamano papà / Det er mængden der gør det …
"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.
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The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Fastest Gun Alive
director: Russell Rouse actor: Glenn Ford / Jeanne Crain …
other title: La pistola sepolta / Die erste Kugel trifft …
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when he's drunk. All citizens swear to keep his secret and support him to give up his guns forever -- but a boy tells the story to a gang of wanted criminals. Their leader threatens to burn down the whole town, if he doesn't duel him.
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The Fan (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Fan
director: Otto Preminger actor: Jeanne Crain / Madeleine Carroll …
other title: Il ventaglio / L'Éventail de Lady Windermere …
Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he starts paying visits to a mysterious beautiful newcomer, Mrs. Erylnne, who is determined to make her entry into London's high society. Worse, the secret gets back to Margaret that Windermere has been giving Mrs. Erylnne large sums of money.
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Apartment for Peggy (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Apartment for Peggy
director: George Seaton actor: Jeanne Crain / William Holden …
other title: Amore sotto i tetti / Eine Dachkammer für zwei …
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.