Jean Willes
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Actress Jean Willes spent the first ten years of her life shuttling up and down the West Coast; born in Los Angeles, she was raised in Salt Lake City, then moved with her family to Seattle. In 1943, she made her film debut in So Proudly We Hail. Shortly afterward, she was signed by Columbia Pictures, billed under her given name, Jean Donahue. She was busiest in Columbia's B-pictures, Westerns, and two-reel comedies, playing a statuesque brunette foil for such comedians as the Three Stooges, Sterling Holloway, Hugh Herbert, and Bert Wheeler. In 1947, she changed her billing to her married name, Jean Willes. Some of her most memorable feature-film roles included the hostess at the New Congress Club who delivers a bored, by-rote recitation of the club's rules in From Here to Eternity (1953); Kevin McCarthy's "zombie-fied" nurse in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956); one of Clark Gable's quartet of leading ladies in A King and Four Queens (1956); the lady lieutenant who chews out Andy Griffith in No Time for Sergeants (1958); and Ernest Borgnine's would-be-sweetheart in McHale's Navy (1964). Jean Willes also made some 400 TV appearances (often as a sharp-tongued, down-to-earth blonde) in such series as The Jack Benny Show, The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, and The Beverly Hillbillies.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | The Man Who Turned To Stone |
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No Score Yet | Chinatown At Midnight |
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73% | Bite the Bullet |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | The Cheyenne Social Club |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | McHale's Navy |
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— | 1964 |
64% | Gypsy |
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— | 1962 |
No Score Yet | Gun Street |
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— | 1961 |
No Score Yet | By Love Possessed |
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— | 1961 |
48% | Ocean's 11 |
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— | 1960 |
94% | Elmer Gantry |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | The Crowded Sky |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | The FBI Story |
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— | 1959 |
No Score Yet | These Thousand Hills |
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— | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Time for Sergeants |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | Desire Under the Elms |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | The King and Four Queens |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Toward the Unknown |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | The Revolt of Mamie Stover |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | The Lieutenant Wore Skirts |
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— | 1956 |
98% | Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 5 Against the House |
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— | 1955 |
92% | From Here to Eternity |
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— | 1953 |
33% | Abbott and Costello Go to Mars |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | The Glass Web |
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— | 1953 |
88% | The Sniper |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land |
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— | 1952 |
90% | Son of Paleface |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | The Fuller Brush Girl |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | A Woman of Distinction |
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— | 1950 |
40% | Down to Earth |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Sing While You Dance |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | Here Come the Waves |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | So Proudly We Hail! |
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— | 1943 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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Kojak
1973-1978
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Bonanza
1959-1973
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The Beverly Hillbillies
1962-1971
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83% |
The Munsters
1964-1966
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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-1965
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82% |
The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
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No Score Yet |
Zorro
1957-1961
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No Score Yet |
Maverick
1957-1962
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Perry Mason
1957-1966
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The Three Stooges
1934-1959
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The Adventures of Superman
1952-1958
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