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Jean Arthur (October 17, 1900 (although sources ... cite 1905 and 1908) - June 19, 1991) was an American actress. Born Gladys Georgianna Greene in Plattsburgh, New York, she became one of Hollywood's favorite screen comediennes.
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Jean Arthur was born Gladys Georgianna Greene on October 17 in upstate New York, not more than 20 miles south of the Canadian border. The year of her birth is reputed to be 1900, although some accounts report that she could have been born either in 1905 or 1908. The discrepancy in Ms. Arthur’s year of birth is not that unusual considering the fact that many actresses lied about their age during that generation.
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Her Papers consist of two separate collections; one donated by Ralph Wolfe and the other by John Oller who wrote her biography Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew (1997). The first collection is comprised of correspondence, photographs, articles, promotional materials, newsclippings and scrapbooks. The correspondence includes some personal letters and correspondence from Bowling Green State University regarding her honorary degree, which was awarded to her in 1988. The articles include two about Jean Arthur and her career in Film Comment and Journal of Popular Film and Television. The promotional material includes programs about Jean Arthur's films shown at the Gish Film Theater and a poster about her film, The Talk of the Town. The newsclippings are about her films, her role as Peter Pan, and her death.
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Jean Arthur was born Gladys Georgianna Greene on October 17 th 1900 in New York. As she grew up, she took to modelling, and ... dabbled with some small roles in Broadway productions. This led her to the silver screen, and she enjoyed her first movie role in ‘Cameo Kirby’ and 1923 silent Western.
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Arthur was born Gladys Georgianna Greene in Plattsburgh, New York to Johanna Augusta Nelson and Hubert Sidney Greene. She lived off and on in Westbrook, Maine from 1908 to 1915 while her father worked at Lamson Studios in Portland, Maine as a photographer. The product of a nomadic childhood, Arthur ... lived at times in Jacksonville, Florida; Schenectady, New York; and, during a portion of her high school years, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan. She came from a family of three older brothers. Her maternal grandparents were immigrants from Norway[2] who settled in the American West. She reputedly took her stage name from two of her greatest heroes, Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) and King Arthur.
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Whatever the case may be, Ms. Arthur was reported to have been very relieved with the end of that professional relationship and headed to New York to work on Broadway in the play called Born Yesterday (1946). Unfortunately, she give in to a debilitating case of stage fright at the last minute, which left the abandoned role open to newcomer Judy Holliday. Of equal misfortunate is Ms. Arthur’s 1949 divorce from Frank Ross after a 17-year marriage.
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