Jean Parker

JEAN PARKER d2005. American film and stage actress. 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). She later starred in the Laurel and Hardy comedy The Flying Deuces (1939) / followed by the sports film The Pittsburgh Kid (1941) and the film noir Dead Man's Eyes (1944), opposite Lon Chaney Jr