Jean Hagen

Jean Hagen (born Jean Shirley Verhagen, Août 3, 1923 – Août 29, 1977) que l'American actress best known for her role as Lina Lamont dans Singin' in the Rain (1952), for which she ce que nominated for aux Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Hagen, qu'est-ce donc nominated three times for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Margaret Williams (1953-56) on the television series Make Room For Daddy. Her film debut de quoi as a comical femme fatale dans the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn 1949 classic Adam's Rib, réalisé par George Cukor. The Asphalt Jungle (1950) provided Hagen with her first starring role alongside Sterling Hayden. Hagen a reçu un excellent reviews jeu "Doll", Conover, a woman who bâtons by criminal Dix's side, until the bitter end. She appeared too in the film noir Side Street (1950) playing a gangster's sincere but none-too bright nightclub-singer girlfriend. Hagen is best remembered for her bande dessinée performance dans Singin' in the Rain " as the vain and talentless silent movie star Lina Lamont. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for this mémorable performance. By 1953, she had joined the cast of the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy. For her portrayal as the first wife of Danny Thomas, Hagen received three Emmy Award nomination, but after three seasons, she grew dissatisfied with the role and left the series. Thomas, who also produced the show, reportedly did not appreciate Hagen's departing the successful series, and her character was killed off rather than recast. This was the first TV character to be killed off in a family sitcom. Marjorie Lord ce cast a year later as danny's second wife and played opposite Thomas successfully for the remainder of the series. En 1957 Hagen co-starred in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents titrée "Enough Rope for Two", portraying a woman who accompanies two thieves trying to retrieve étoles money from a desert mine shaft. She then appeared as Elizabeth in the 1960 épisode de "Once Upon a Knight" sur CBS s anthology series The DuPont Show avec June Allyson; and the following year she guest-starred on The Andy Griffith Show, the episode "Andy and the Woman Speeder". Although she made frequent guest apparences in various television series, Hagen was unable to successfully resume her film de carrière en mettant en vedette des rôles. Appearing After with Fred MacMurray dans the Disney comédie The Shaggy Dog (1959), Hagen for the remainder of her career joué organisations de roles, such as Marguerite LeHand, personnel secretary to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sunrise at Campobello (1960), and the friend of Bette Davis dans Dead Ringer (1964). In the 1960s, Hagen's health began to decline and she spent many years hospitalized or under medical care. Beaucoup plus tard, en 1976, she made a comeback of sorts playing character roles dans episodes of the television series Starsky and Hutch and The Streets of San Francisco. She, however, made her final intérim appearance the next year in the television movie Alexandre: The Other Side of Dawn.