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Jean Parker
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From All Movie Guide: While still a junior high student, American actress Jean Parker was discovered by MGM when she posed for a poster contest. Her first film under her MGM contract was Divorce in the Family (1932), and her first important film was Rasputin and the Empress (1933), in which the novice performer failed to wilt despite the formidable presence in the cast of Lionel, John and Ethel Barrymore. Pretty and vivacious, Parker became the queen of the MGM B-pictures but never quite made it in the studio's top-drawer productions. Gaining a reputation of working quickly, efficiently and inexpensively, she became a valuable commodity on the independent-film market; two of her free-lance appearance, in Laurel and Hardy's Flying Deuces (1939) and director Eddie Sutherland's ultra-sentimental Beyond Tomorrow (1940), are familiar public-domain additions to video stores throughout America. At Monogram in the mid '40s, Parker inagurated a comedy-mystery series as Detective Kitty O'Day, but only two films were made, with her performance overshadowed by costar Peter Cookson in both. The actress was a regular in B-plus Technicolor westerns of the '50s, seen to best advantage as a faded society belle in Randolph Scott's A Lawless Street (1955).
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Jean Parker Elementary School replaces an unreinforced masonry structure that was severely damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Designed to maximize the usable playground area on the restricted 0.6 acre Chinatown site, the school is centered around a fenced in, south-facing courtyard.
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Jean Parker, the lovely brunette star of "Sequoia," "Little Women," "The Ghost Goes West" and other hit films of the 1930s and '40s, died on Nov. 30. She was 90. Parker died of complications from a stroke at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital where she had lived since 1998.
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Located at Jean Parker, John Yehall Chin, Spring Valley, and Gordon J. Lau Elementary School, the ACE program is funded by state and federal grants and contracted through the San Francisco Unified School District located. ACE serves over 180 youth in kindergarten through fifth grade and provides academic and enrichment activities with an emphasis on literacy.
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Clyde Leslie Parker was born March 9, 1913, in Bokchito, Oklahoma, to Columbus Washington and Mary Elizabeth Mollie Meeks Parker. Clyde passed from this life Wednesday, February 28, 2007, in Wichita Falls, Texas, at the age of ninety-three. He and Jonnie Peck were married September 3, 1935, in Waurika, Oklahoma. Clyde attended the First United Methodist Church of Waurika.
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An investigation into Parker's disappearance by the Tracy, California Police Department found that Parker was seen at various truck stops from Lodi, California to as far away as possibly Princeton, Illinois. Parker was ... spotted by two truckers at the Alamo Truck Stop in Sparks on June 25, 2000. Parker's "missing person" picture was posted at various truck stops across the country. A waitress at a Princeton, Illinois truck stop believed she recognized the woman on the flyer and phoned the Tracy Police Department indicating she thought she had seen her.
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