Jean-Peters

Elizabeth Jean Peters (October 15, 1926 in East Canton, Ohio - October 13, 2000 in Carlsbad, California) was an American film actress. She is remembered for her role in the movie Niagara, in which she co-starred with Joseph Cotten and Marilyn Monroe.

Biography

He studied teaching, and worked for a time in that profession.

In 1946 she won a beauty pageant in Ohio, and the prize was a trip to Hollywood. 20th Century Fox signed her immediately, and a year later she and she starred in Captain from Castile opposite Tyrone Power. This film launched her to fame as one of the most attractive actresses of the moment. Throughout her career, she co-starred with top Hollywood figures like Burt Lancaster, Marlon Brando, Richard Widmark.

Studios pigeonholed her for a time in roles of attractive and sensual women, but at the same time dynamic and enterprising.

Peters was famous for her marriages, having been married three times to notoriously millionaire men. Her first husband was Stuart Cramer III, an oil magnate with whom she was married for only a few months before divorcing. In 1957 she married Howard Hughes, the famous and eccentric billionaire aeronautical businessman and she retired from the cinema, she was married for 14 years, and gave him enormous notoriety in addition to having been benefited in her will with a real fortune. Her third husband was Stan Hough, who passed away after 19 years of marriage.

Peters died of leukemia in Carlsbad, California, at the age of 74.

Filmography

• Reverend Peteralso known as Passes of faith (1955)
• Broken Lance (1954)
• Apache (1954)
• Three Coins in the Fountain (We believe in love1954)
• A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
• Vicki (1953)
• Dangerous hands (1953)
• Niagara (1953)
• Or. Henry's Full House (1952)
• A scream in the swamp (1952)
• Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952)
• Viva Zapata! (1952)
• The pirate woman (1951)
• As Young as You Feel (1951)
• Take Care of My Little Girl (1951)
• I want this brute (1950)
• It Happens Every Spring (1949)
• Shadows in the sea (1948)
• The captain of Castile (1947)