Jacqueline White
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Jacqueline Jane White (born 1922 or 1923) is an American actress who had a career in Hollywood from 1942 until 1952, where she was featured in approximately 25 feature films.
White, at the age of 17, signed on a film contract at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[1] and subsequently with RKO, where she found her greatest success and is perhaps best remembered for her roles in films Crossfire (1947), Banjo (1947) , Mystery in Mexico (1948) and The Narrow Margin (1952).[2] She is one of the last surviving actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Early years
White was born in 1922 or 1923,[1] in Beverly Hills, California[3] to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Garrison White.[4] Her cousin, Frank Knox, was a Secretary of the Navy and a newspaper owner and publisher. She was from Beverly Hills, California.[5] She attended Beverly Hills High School[4] and the University of California, Los Angeles.[6]
White and actress Lynn Merrick were childhood friends until White moved. They were reunited when both were in the cast of Three Hearts for Julia (1943).[7]
Film career
MGM films
White's film debut resulted from her work in a drama class at UCLA.
She appeared in a few small roles, but her first lead role came in Air Raid Wardens (1943) starring Laurel and Hardy.[8]
A casting director saw her in a production of Ah, Wilderness! and arranged for a screen test for her. That led to her film appearance, in Song of Russia (1944).[6]
White usually played either featured actresses in B movies or supporting parts in A-movies. White was under contract to both Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she was cast mostly in uncredited small roles.
RKO Pictures
White had starring roles in RKO'S Banjo and Mystery in Mexico[8] and also appeared in Crossfire (1947).[9][2] Her first western film was at RKO and starred in Return of the Bad Men (1948), opposite Randolph Scott, her nemesis in the film was Anne Jeffreys, those sister played the film stand-in for White.[8]
White married in 1948, then moved with her husband to Wyoming in 1950. When she returned to Los Angeles for the birth of her first child Neal Bruce (1952-2024), she was spotted in the RKO commissary visiting friends by director Richard Fleischer and producer Stanley Rubin, who offered her a featured role in The Narrow Margin (1952),[10] a B-picture film noir, which was her final picture.[11]
Personal life
On November 12, 1948,[4] White married Neal Bruce Anderson in Westwood Hills.[12] She left the film industry in 1952 and relocated to Wyoming with her husband, who started an oil business.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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White occasionally appears at film conventions. In 2013, she made an appearance at the annual TCM Classic Film Festival.[10]
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant | Telephone Operator |
| Reunion in France | Danielle | |
| 1943 | Air Raid Wardens | Peggy Parker |
| Three Hearts for Julia | Kay | |
| That's Why I Left You (short) | Mary Thompson | |
| Pilot No. 5 | Party Girl | |
| Swing Shift Maisie | Grace | |
| A Guy Named Joe | Helen | |
| 1944 | Song of Russia | Anna Bulganov |
| Easy Life | Train Passenger | |
| Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | Emmy York | |
| Dark Shadows | Nurse Jean Smith | |
| 1946 | The Harvey Girls | Harvey Girl |
| Magic on a Stick (Short) | Mrs. John Walker | |
| Our Old Car (Short) | Mrs. Nesbitt | |
| The Show-Off | Clara Harlin | |
| 1947 | Banjo | Elizabeth Ames |
| Seven Keys to Baldpate | Mary Jordan | |
| Crossfire | Mary Mitchell | |
| 1948 | Night Song | Connie |
| Return of the Bad Men | Madge Allen | |
| Mystery in Mexico | Victoria Ames | |
| 1949 | Riders of the Range | Priscilla "Dusty" Willis |
| 1950 | The Capture | Luana Ware |
| 1952 | The Narrow Margin | Ann Sinclair |
See also
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References
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External links
- Template:Trim/ Template:PAGENAMEBASE at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Jacqueline White in a clip from the film Mystery in Mexico, from YouTube
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- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American women
- Living people
- Actresses from Beverly Hills, California
- Actresses from Los Angeles
- American film actresses
- American women centenarians
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract players
- RKO Pictures contract players
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- Western (genre) film actresses
- 1922 births