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3, including Lawrence Lasker. Jane Greer (born Bettejane Greer; September 9, 1924 – August 24, 2001) was an American film and television actress best known for her role as femme fatale Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir Out of the Past. In 2009, The Guardian named her one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.
Jane Greer. Actress: Out of the Past. As a baby, she was winning beauty contests; as a teenager, with good looks and an attractive contralto voice, she was singing with big bands (most notably Enric Madriguera's orchestra in Latin Club Del Rio in Washington, D.C.. She met Rudy Vallee, her first husband, on the radio where she also enjoyed a brief stint as a singer. At age 15, an attack...
- September 9, 1924
- August 24, 2001
Jane Greer was born on September 9, 1924 in Washington, D.C., USA, to Bettie and Charles Durell McClellan Greer, Jr. She had a twin brother named Don. At the age of 15, she suffered an attack of facial palsy that paralyzed the left side of her face. However, she recovered later.
Jane Greer. Actress: Out of the Past. As a baby, she was winning beauty contests; as a teenager, with good looks and an attractive contralto voice, she was singing with big bands (most notably Enric Madriguera's orchestra in Latin Club Del Rio in Washington, D.C..
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- Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
In 1947 Jane Greer starred opposite Robert Mitchum in the film noir classic Out of the Past, and the success of that film helped earn her a place on the cover of LIFE. That movie was a crowning moments of a career that had elements of a film noir story on its own. The actress, born Bettyjane Greer, had actually been in LIFE magazine twice ...
Jane Greer was a film and television actress who was perhaps best known for her role as femme fatale Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir Out of the Past. A beauty-contest winner and professional model from her teens, Greer began her show-business career as a big-band singer. She sang in Washington, DC, with the orchestra of Enric Madriguera. She "sang phonetically in Spanish" with the group ...
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Mar 17, 2016 · Bettejane Greer was born in 1924 (along with twin brother Donne) to father Charles and mother Elizabeth (who wrote a column for a Florida newspaper in the early 1930s). From the age of five, she competed in a number of singing and dancing talent contests at the urging of her mother. By the time she was 12, she had also worked as a child model.
