![]() She also appeared in "Rebel Love" (1986), the Lisa Aliff thriller "Playroom" (1990) and "Chopper Chicks in Zombietown" (1991). Rose's career in acting began with her roles in various films like the George Kennedy horror movie "Just Before Dawn" (1981), "Tightrope" (1984) and "Heartbreakers" (1984). The family has asked that memorial donations be sent to SHARE Inc., P.O.Throughout her entertainment career as an accomplished actress, Jamie Rose graced the silver screen many times. ![]() 9 on what would have been her 77th birthday. Greer is survived by her twin brother, Don her three sons and two grandchildren.Ī private memorial service is scheduled Sept. Greer later devoted herself to charity work, primarily benefiting retarded children. too Bo-Peepish, ingenueish for the type of role I’ve been playing.” She was first billed as Jane Greer in the 1945 film “Dick Tracy, Detective.” The actress legally shortened her name in 1945 after buying out her Hughes contract, calling Bettejane “a sissy name. Hughes liked what he saw and brought her west. With her mother working as a writer in the War Department’s public information office, Greer became one of three young women hired to model Women’s Army Corps uniforms in newsreels and Life magazine. The facial exercises she used to overcome the illness taught her about facial expression of emotion, which she put to perfect use in film noir. Greer often said that a bout with Bell’s palsy, which partially paralyzed her face when she was 15, was a useful tool for acting. Her looks plus a serviceable contralto voice earned her jobs as a teenager singing with Ralph Hawkins’ big band, with Enric Madriguera’s orchestra in Washington’s Latin Club Del Rio and later on the radio with Vallee. ![]() She also appeared sporadically on television, including such series as “Zane Grey Theater,” “Bonanza,” “Quincy,” “Falcon Crest,” “Murder, She Wrote,” “Twin Peaks” and notably in Louis L’Amour’s “The Shadow Riders.”īettejane Greer won baby contests in her native Washington and was modeling by the age of 12. One critic raved: “She is still beautiful and with those amazing eyes as blandly treacherous as ever.”Īmong Greer’s other films were less memorable fare, including her 1945 debut, “Two O’Clock Courage,” followed by “George White’s Scandals,” “Bamboo Blond” and “Sinbad the Sailor.” More impressive films include “They Won’t Believe Me,” the 1952 version of “The Prisoner of Zenda” opposite Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr, and as Lon Chaney’s second wife opposite James Cagney in “Man of a Thousand Faces.” He cast Greer as the elegantly evil owner of a pro football team, the mother of her original character, Kathie, played by Rachel Ward in the film released in 1984. Director Taylor Hackford met her at a retrospective screening of “Out of the Past” and began talking about a remake he was planning titled “Against All Odds.” “I said, ‘What’s that?’ ” She had never heard the term for the shadowy, cynical, hard-boiled films in which she excelled. One of her sons (in addition to jazz musician Steven, she raised noted screenwriters Alex and Lawrence Lasker) came home from his film class at UCLA and said, “Mother, you’re the queen of film noir!” Largely out of work by her late 30s like other actresses of the era who found no parts for older women, Greer was all but startled by her rediscovery two decades or so later. She had long hair, was very glamorous and had an air of mystery about her.” a liar and a killer, she looked soft and innocent. “In those days, because of censorship,” Greer told The Times in 1984, “you had to die at the end if you killed people.”Īware that believability is essential to acting success, Greer said, “I was believable because although Kathie was.
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