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Jean Parker: Robert Lowery
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Jean Parker wuchs in der Provinz in Montana auf. Sie wurde von Ida Koverman, dem persönlichen Assistenten von Louis B. Mayer für den Film entdeckt, nachdem sie einen Malwettbewerb gewonnen hatte. Parker trat in einigen bedeutenden Filmen der 1930er Jahre auf. Zwischen 1932 und 1966 trat sie in etwa 70 Kinofilmen auf. Seit den 1940er Jahren spielte sie auch am Broadway. Jean Parker war viermal verheiratet, unter anderem mit dem Radiomann Douglas Dawson und dem Schauspieler Robert Lowery.
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Jean Parker’s four marriages ended in divorce. One of her husbands, Robert Lowery, was ... and actor. (Lowery played Batman in the 1949 serial Batman and Robin.) The couple appeared together in regional theater productions, and also toured in a nightclub act. In the 1970s, Parker coached young actors, but in later years she became a recluse, refusing to be interviewed or to discuss her film past.
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Jean Parker was married four times, to George McDonald, Douglas Dawson, Curtis Grower and Robert Lowery. All the unions ended in divorce. The final one, to Lowery, produced one child, Robert Lowery Hanks, who survives her. (Robert Lowery's real last name was Hanks.) Her final film appearance was in 1966. According to the AP, the actress was known as a recluse during the final years of her life.
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After her MGM contract expired in the mid-1930s, Parker (who looked like a younger Jean Arthur) began to freelance. Things started well with The Ghost Goes West, made in England by René Clair, and in which she co-starred with Robert Donat. From then on... her film career suffered an inexorable downslide.
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