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    Eleanor Parker

    American actress (1922–2013)

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    Eleanor Jean Parker (June 26, 1922 – December 9, 2013) was an American actress. She was nominated for three Academy Awards for her roles in the films Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951), and Interrupted Melody (1955), the first of which won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She was also known for her roles in the films Of Human Bondage (1946), Scaramouche (1952), The Naked Jungle (1954), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), A Hole in the Head (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), and The Oscar (1966).

    Early life

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    Eleanor Jean Parker was born on June 26, 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio, the daughter of Lola (née Isett) and Lester Day Parker.[1] She moved with her family to East Cleveland, Ohio, where she attended public schools and graduated from Shaw High School. "Ever since I can remember, all inom wanted to do is act", she said. "But I

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    Eleanor Jean Parker was born on June 26, 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio, the last of three children born to a mathematics teacher and his wife. Eleanor caught the acting bug early and began performing in school plays. She was was so serious about becoming an actor, that she attended the Rice Summer Theatre on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, beginning when she was 15 years old. She was offered her first screen test by a 20th Century-Fox talent scout while attending Rice, but turned the opportunity down to gain professional stage experience in Cleveland after graduating from high school.

    She moved on to California to continue her acting studies at the Pasadena Playhouse. It was there, while sitting in the audience of a play being put on at the Playhouse, that she was again offered a screen test - this time from a Warner Brothers' scout - and again declined, wanting to finish her first year at the Playhouse. When the year was up, Eleanor contacted Warner Brothers to take them

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    Eleanor Parker (Cedarville, Ohio, SAD, June 26, 1922 - Palm Springs, California, USA, December 9, 2013)


    American film and television actress whose career began in the 1940s. She started to act in a theatre in Cleveland, and as a teenager she went on to act in a theatre in Pasadena, California. After signing with the Warner Brothers Studio, her career advanced from B movies to her first A movie Edward A. Blatt’s Between Two Worlds (1944). In Delmer Daves’ post war drama Pride of the Marines (1945) she played the lead female role. Edmund Goulding’s drama Of Human Bondage (1946) and James V. Kerns comedy Never Say Goodbye (1946), in which she starred opposite Errol Flynn, did not achieve much success. The next big break was her role in Stuart Heisler’s action movie Chain Lightning (1950) opposite Humphrey Bogart. However, this movie also underperformed but the very next one proved to be a success – John Cromwell’s drama Caged (1950), in whi