© Copyright Harutyunyan 2024

sunfilm-logo
Home/Jean Hagen
Jean Hagen‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1923-08-03

Popularity

star2.4

Jean Hagen

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Jean Hagen

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1923-08-03

Popularity

star2.4

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean Hagen (born Jean Shirley Verhagen, August 3, 1923 – August 29, 1977) was an American actress best known for her role as Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain (1952), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Hagen was also 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 was as a comical femme fatale in the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn 1949 classic Adam's Rib, directed by George Cukor. The Asphalt Jungle (1950) provided Hagen with her first starring role alongside Sterling Hayden. Hagen received excellent reviews playing "Doll" Conover, a woman who sticks 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 comic performance in 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 memorable 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 nominations, 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 was cast a year later as Danny's second wife and played opposite Thomas successfully for the remainder of the series. In 1957 Hagen co-starred in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents titled "Enough Rope for Two", portraying a woman who accompanies two thieves trying to retrieve stolen money from a desert mine shaft. She then appeared as Elizabeth in the 1960 episode "Once Upon a Knight" on CBS's anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson; and the following year she guest-starred on The Andy Griffith Show in the episode "Andy and the Woman Speeder". Although she made frequent guest appearances in various television series, Hagen was unable to successfully resume her film career in starring roles. After appearing with Fred MacMurray in the Disney comedy The Shaggy Dog (1959), Hagen for the remainder of her career played supporting roles, such as Marguerite LeHand, personal secretary to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello (1960), and the friend of Bette Davis in Dead Ringer (1964). In the 1960s, Hagen's health began to decline and she spent many years hospitalized or under medical care. Much later, in 1976, she made a comeback of sorts playing character roles in episodes of the television series Starsky and Hutch and The Streets of San Francisco. She, however, made her final acting appearance the next year in the television movie Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn.

Movie Credits

Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain‌
star8.2
calendar 1952

Dead Ringer

Dead Ringer‌
star6.9
calendar 1964

Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib‌
star7.1
calendar 1949

Panic in Year Zero!

Panic in Year Zero!‌
star6.2
calendar 1962

The Shaggy Dog

The Shaggy Dog‌
star6.2
calendar 1959

Carbine Williams

Carbine Williams‌
star6.3
calendar 1952

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Snows of Kilimanjaro‌
star0.0
calendar 1960

The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle‌
star7.5
calendar 1950

The Big Knife

The Big Knife‌
star5.9
calendar 1955

Side Street

Side Street‌
star6.6
calendar 1950

Sunrise at Campobello

Sunrise at Campobello‌
star5.8
calendar 1960

No Questions Asked

No Questions Asked‌
star6.0
calendar 1951

Arena

Arena‌
star4.7
calendar 1953

Ambush

Ambush‌
star5.1
calendar 1950

Shadow in the Sky

Shadow in the Sky‌
star6.6
calendar 1952

Spring Reunion

Spring Reunion‌
star5.8
calendar 1957

Latin Lovers

Latin Lovers‌
star4.6
calendar 1953

A Life of Her Own

A Life of Her Own‌
star5.2
calendar 1950

Half a Hero

Half a Hero‌
star5.5
calendar 1953

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn‌
star5.9
calendar 1977

Night Into Morning

Night Into Morning‌
star5.8
calendar 1951

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer‌
star7.7
calendar 2002

Tv Credits

The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show‌
star7.6
calendar 1960

The Danny Thomas Show

The Danny Thomas Show‌
star6.2
calendar 1953

Starsky & Hutch

Starsky & Hutch‌
star7.2
calendar 1975

The Streets of San Francisco

The Streets of San Francisco‌
star7.0
calendar 1972

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater‌
star5.5
calendar 1953

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents‌
star7.7
calendar 1955

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse‌
star4.3
calendar 1958

Climax!

Climax!‌
star2.7
calendar 1954

Make Room for Granddaddy

Make Room for Granddaddy‌
star5.0
calendar 1970

Ben Casey

Ben Casey‌
star5.7
calendar 1961

The Detectives

The Detectives‌
star5.6
calendar 1959

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1956

Dr. Kildare

Dr. Kildare‌
star5.4
calendar 1961

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

The DuPont Show with June Allyson‌
star6.3
calendar 1959

The Jimmy Durante Show

The Jimmy Durante Show‌
star0.0
calendar 1954

The Ford Television Theatre

The Ford Television Theatre‌
star6.0
calendar 1952

Stagecoach West

Stagecoach West‌
star6.0
calendar 1960

Wagon Train

Wagon Train‌
star6.4
calendar 1957

Wagon Train

Wagon Train‌
star6.4
calendar 1957