Jean Parker 1934 Large Format Hollywood Regency Glamour Photograph
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ITEM: This is a vintage and original large format MGM glamour photograph of young actress Jean Parker. The elegantly beautiful brunette star looks absolutely lovely in a ruffled gown as she poses under the dramatic and striking high-contrast lighting and shadows in the studio; a sumptuous and glamorous example of the portraiture style that defined this era of Hollywood. This still was used to publicize Parker's role in the 1934 adventure/crime/drama film, "Lazy River", which is being a...dvertised here under its working title, "Louisiana." The press snipe reads:
HOLLYWOOD'S CINDERELLA
A lovely portrait of Jean Parker, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer featured player. It is only a little more than a year since Jean was found as a model on an Olympic Games float. It is less than eighteen months since she left her commercial art class to answer a call which brought her to the M-G-M studios. In that comparatively short period, however, Miss Parker has appeared in such important pictures as "Rasputin and the Empress, " "Little Women, " "Storm at Daybreak, " and is now scheduled for an important role in "Louisiana."
Photograph measures 10" x 13" on a glossy double weight paper stock.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
More about Jean Parker:
Jean Parker was born Lois Mae Green in 1915. Her father was Lewis Green, a gunsmith and hunter, and her mother was Pearl Melvina Burch (later known professionally as Mildred Brenner), one of 18 children of a pioneer family that came to Montana from Missouri and Iowa. Jean's maternal grandfather was a Presbyterian minister.
Parker was an accomplished gymnast and dancer, and was adopted by the Spickard family of Pasadena during her formative years when both her father and mother were unemployed during the Great Depression. As Lois Green, she entered a poster-painting contest and won for portraying Father Time. Ida Koverman, assistant to MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer, heard that a pretty teenage girl had won the contest; she contacted the would-be starlet, and had Mayer offer her an MGM contract.
Parker made several important films in her career, including The Ghost Goes West (1935) with Robert Donat; Sequoia (1934) with Russell Hardie, shot in the Sequoia National Forest near Springville, California; Little Women (1933) with Joan Bennett and Katharine Hepburn; Operator 13 (1934) with Marion Davies; and many other films.
After several successful cross-country trips entertaining injured servicemen during World War II, Parker wed and divorced Curt Grotter of the Braille Institute in Los Angeles; and moved on to New York to star in the play "Loco". She also starred on Broadway in "Burlesque" with Bert Lahr, and in the hit "Born Yesterday", filling in for Judy Holliday. Parker's fourth and last husband, actor Robert Lowery, played opposite her as Brock in the play for a short stint. By this marriage, Parker bore her only child, a son, Robert Lowery Hanks.
Parker died on November 30, 2005 at the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, aged 90, from a stroke. She was survived by her son and two granddaughters, Katie and Nora Hanks.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Robert Sieger
HOLLYWOOD'S CINDERELLA
A lovely portrait of Jean Parker, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer featured player. It is only a little more than a year since Jean was found as a model on an Olympic Games float. It is less than eighteen months since she left her commercial art class to answer a call which brought her to the M-G-M studios. In that comparatively short period, however, Miss Parker has appeared in such important pictures as "Rasputin and the Empress, " "Little Women, " "Storm at Daybreak, " and is now scheduled for an important role in "Louisiana."
Photograph measures 10" x 13" on a glossy double weight paper stock.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
More about Jean Parker:
Jean Parker was born Lois Mae Green in 1915. Her father was Lewis Green, a gunsmith and hunter, and her mother was Pearl Melvina Burch (later known professionally as Mildred Brenner), one of 18 children of a pioneer family that came to Montana from Missouri and Iowa. Jean's maternal grandfather was a Presbyterian minister.
Parker was an accomplished gymnast and dancer, and was adopted by the Spickard family of Pasadena during her formative years when both her father and mother were unemployed during the Great Depression. As Lois Green, she entered a poster-painting contest and won for portraying Father Time. Ida Koverman, assistant to MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer, heard that a pretty teenage girl had won the contest; she contacted the would-be starlet, and had Mayer offer her an MGM contract.
Parker made several important films in her career, including The Ghost Goes West (1935) with Robert Donat; Sequoia (1934) with Russell Hardie, shot in the Sequoia National Forest near Springville, California; Little Women (1933) with Joan Bennett and Katharine Hepburn; Operator 13 (1934) with Marion Davies; and many other films.
After several successful cross-country trips entertaining injured servicemen during World War II, Parker wed and divorced Curt Grotter of the Braille Institute in Los Angeles; and moved on to New York to star in the play "Loco". She also starred on Broadway in "Burlesque" with Bert Lahr, and in the hit "Born Yesterday", filling in for Judy Holliday. Parker's fourth and last husband, actor Robert Lowery, played opposite her as Brock in the play for a short stint. By this marriage, Parker bore her only child, a son, Robert Lowery Hanks.
Parker died on November 30, 2005 at the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, aged 90, from a stroke. She was survived by her son and two granddaughters, Katie and Nora Hanks.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Robert Sieger
