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Jeanne Crain: Camera Girl
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Midwestern farm girl Jeanne Crain falls in love with suave jazz band leader Dan Dailey, but their marriage is nearly ruined by the stock market crash in 1929. Fun old fashioned musical romance ... starring Oscar Levant and Barbara Lawrence. Excellent quality.
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Born in California of Irish-Catholic parents, Jeanne (pronounced Jean) Crain won the Miss Long Beach beauty contest in her teens, going on to become Camera Girl of 1942. But she had acting ambitions and, while still at school, took a screen test for Orson Welles for the role of Lucy Morgan in The Magnificent Ambersons. In the event, the slightly older and more experienced Anne Baxter got the part, subsequently pipping her to the post twice more, in All About Eve (1950) and One Desire (1955).
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With her lovely features, slender figure and demure manner, Crain became a leading star in the wartime and postwar years. For faraway GI's she seemed the ideal girl back home. At 20th Century-Fox studio, her fan mail was second only to that of pin-up queen Betty Grable.
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