Jean Peters Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Jean Peters (October 15, 1926 – October 13, 2000) was an American actress, known as a star of 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and as the second (or possibly third) wife of Howard Hughes. Although possibly best remembered for her siren role in Pickup on South Street (1953), Peters was known for her resistance to being turned into a sex symbol. She preferred to play unglamorous, down-to-earth women.
Full Name
Jean Peters
Net Worth
$1.2 Million
Date Of Birth
October 15, 1926
Died
October 13, 2000, Carlsbad, California, United States
Place Of Birth
Canton, Ohio, USA
Height
1.66 m
Profession
Actor
Education
University of Michigan, East Canton High School, Ohio State University
Nationality
American
Spouse
Stanley Hough, Howard Hughes, Stuart Cramer
Parents
Gerald Peters, Elizabeth Peters
Siblings
Arlen Stuart
Nicknames
Jean Peters, Peters, Jean
IMDB
Movies
Niagara, Pickup on South Street, Viva Zapata!, Captain from Castile, Three Coins in the Fountain, Broken Lance, A Man Called Peter, Anne of the Indies, Apache, It Happens Every Spring, A Blueprint for Murder, O. Henry's Full House, Lure of the Wilderness, Deep Waters, Vicki, As Young as You Feel, Wa...
TV Shows
Peter and Paul, The Moneychangers
Star Sign
Libra
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[in 1972] My life with Howard Hughes was and shall remain a matter on which I will have no comment.
When she divorced Howard Hughes in 1971 she agreed to an alimony payment of $70,000 per year (which was later adjusted to a lower amount during the inflation period of the late 1970s).
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A feminist, she refused to be typecast as a glamor girl or sex symbol, feeling it was too degrading.
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Until her death she felt her work in Winesburg, Ohio (1973) to be the biggest career mistake she ever made. because she believed her role to be mundane.
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She considered Christopher Plummer to be one of the greatest actors she ever worked with.
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Was Max Factor's Star of the Year in 1950.
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Although she died in October 2000 she was still able to vote for George W. Bush for president in that year's presidential election by means of absentee ballot.
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She was a staunch Republican who gave much of her time and money to a host of conservative political causes. She also attended several Republican fund-raisers and galas and was active in the campaigns of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
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She was originally meant to make her film debut in I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947) but refused her part because it required her to look ugly.
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She would never talk about Howard Hughes in an interview.
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She was a financial supporter of the psychology and anthropology studies at the UCLA.
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Was crowned Miss Ohio 1945.
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She had such a determination to obtain a college degree in literature that when she wasn't making movies she went back to her roots to study at Ohio State University.
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Was a 1944 graduate of East Canton High School in East Canton, Ohio.
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Is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.
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For her last acting role of Siobhan O'Dea on Murder, She Wrote (1984) she modeled her character after Greta Garbo as she was portraying a reclusive foreign actress who goes into seclusion following the demise of her lover.
