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Jean Parker: Judy Holliday
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Jean Parker, who followed Judy Holliday into the role of Billie Dawn in the Broadway hit comedy Born Yesterday, died Nov. 30 in Los Angeles at the age of 90. The cause was complications of a stroke, the Associated Press reported.
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In 1944, in The Navy Way, Parker was again an influence for good, as a reservist reforming a prizefighter bitter about being called up. The boxer was played by Robert Lowery, whom Parker married in 1951, and with whom she had a son. (She had already been married and divorced three times.) Lowery briefly filled in for Bert Lahr on Broadway in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday, playing opposite Parker after she had taken over from Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn, the dumb blonde who becomes smart. In fact, when Columbia was casting the film version, studio boss Harry Cohn expressed his preference for Parker over Holliday, whom he thought too plump. Unfortunately for Parker, he changed his mind after seeing Holliday in Adam's Rib (1949).
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Parker ... appeared on Broadway. In 1949 she replaced Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday on Broadway and enjoyed a successful run in this classic. Parker also appeared on Broadway opposite Bert Lahr in the play Burlesque, did summer stock in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was on tour in the play Candlelight and Loco, and performed on stage in other professional productions.
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