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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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
Aug 28, 2001 · Jane Greer, the actress remembered as the brainy, beautiful bad girl who liked to murder people and who has often been called the queen of film noir, has died at the age of 76. News.
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.
Aug 27, 2001 · Jane Greer, whose warm beauty belied her status as Hollywood’s reigning queen of film noir during the late 1940s, died Friday of complications from cancer at her home in Los Angeles. She was two ...
Aug 28, 2001 · Jane Greer, whose dolorous but luminous dark eyes and world-weary beauty made her the ideal femme fatale opposite Robert Mitchum in ''Out of the Past'' and ''The Big Steal,'' film noir classics of ...
