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.
Jean Peters and Marlon Brando as Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (1952)
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.
Jean Peters in the trailer for the film Niagara (1953)
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
Jean Peters mending Joseph Cotten's hand in Niagara (1953)
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
Jean Peters and Marlon Brando as Emiliano Zapata in a trailer for Viva Zapata! (1952)
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 Marshall
Career 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
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Jean Peters at the Internet Movie Database
Jean Peters: biography of a forgotten leading lady, jackal’s film corner, October 16, 2007
Jean Peters biography at Guardian Unlimited Film
Reviews of Jean Peters movies at Channel 4 Film
Jean Peters at Find A Grave
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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
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Categories: American film actors | Deaths from leukemia | 1926 births | 2000 deaths | Welsh Americans | Howard Hughes | Ohio actors | Ohio University alumni | People from Canton, OhioHidden categories: Articles lacking sources from April 2008 | All articles lacking sources
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