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Jean Parker: Los Angeles
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Jean Parker, the stunning brunette star of Sequoia, Little Women, The Ghost Goes West and more han 70 other hit films of the 1930s and '40s, died in Los Angeles on Nov. 30. She was 90. Parker arrived in Hollywood from Montana after her Father Time poster and her photograph appeared on a float in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, where Ida Koverman, secretary Signed by the studio, Parker made her acting debut in 1932 as Duchess Maria in Rasputin and the Empress, a film that starred three members of acting's Barrymore family -- Ethel, Lionel and John. Some critics considered Sequoia in 1934 Parker's finest accomplishment. As the solo star of that film, she played a girl living near a national park who raises an unlikely pair, an orphaned fawn and mountain lion who grow up as friends.
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Parker stayed active in film throughout the 1940s, playing opposite Lon Chaney in "Dead Man's Eyes" "Detective Kitty O' Day", and a variety of other films. Parker managed her own airport and flying service with then-husband Doug Dawson in Palm Springs, California until shortly after the start of World War II. During World War II, she toured many of the veteran hospitals throughout the U.S. and performed on radio. In the 1950s, Parker co-starred opposite Edward G. Robinson in Black Tuesday; had a small but effective role in Gunfighter which starred Gregory Peck and appeared with Randolph Scott and Angela Lansbury in the western Lawless Street (1955). Her last film appearance was Apache Uprising (1966), directed by A. C. Lyles.
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Good Grief/Bald Statements was born as a reflection of Jean Parker’s own experience of cancer. The eight terracotta heads emerged during the course of a seven day silent retreat, and present a powerful and unique visual exploration of the grief process. The photographic and 3D images in clay or broze, together with the alabaster heads relate not only to loss of health, but ... to significant loss of any kind.
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Through the 1940s, Parker was active in numerous lost and/or forgotten B-movies for minor studios, such as Republic and Monogram. Among the less forgettable films she made was The Flying Deuces (1939), in which she was a perfect stooge for Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, as an innkeeper's daughter with whom Ollie falls in love.
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