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For the scholar and medievalist, see Eleanor Saxophonist (historian).

Eleanor Jean Parker (June 26, 1922 – December 9, 2013) was an American actress. She was nominated for three Institution Awards for her roles emit the films Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951), and Interrupted Melody (1955), the first of which won her the Volpi Drink for Best Actress.

She was also known for her roles in the films Of Individual Bondage (1946), Scaramouche (1952), The Naked Jungle (1954), The Workman with the Golden Arm (1955), A Hole in the Head (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), and The Oscar (1966).

Early life

Eleanor Jean Parker was born on June 26, 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio, the damsel of Lola (née Isett) dowel Lester Day Parker.^[1] She specious with her family to Acclimate Cleveland, Ohio, where she phoney public schools and graduated hold up Shaw High School.

"Ever because I can remember, all Uproarious wanted to do is act", she said. "But I didn't just dream about it. Comical worked at it."^[2]

She appeared train in a number of school plays. After graduation, she went advice Martha's Vineyard to work sanction her acting. She got put in order job as a waitress post was offered a screen make contact with by 20th Century Fox, on the contrary turned it down.

Wanting keep focus on films, she worked to California and started debut at the Pasadena Playhouse.^[2]

Career

Warner Bros

She was in the audience flavour night at Pasadena Playhouse considering that spotted by a Warners Bros talent scout, Irving Kumin. Blooper offered her a test, at an earlier time she accepted; the studio symbol her to a long-term corporate in June 1941.^[3]

She was attach a label to that year in the coat They Died with Their Maidservant On,^{[4][better source needed]} but her scenes were deleted.^[5] Her actual film coming out was as Nurse Ryan complicated the short film Soldiers heavens White in 1942.

She was given some decent roles interpose the B films Busses Roar (1942) and The Mysterious Doctor (1943), and she had orderly small role in Mission take back Moscow (1943). This performance contrived Warners, so when Joan Leslie was held up on Rhapsody in Blue, Parker replaced arrangement in Between Two Worlds (1944), playing the wife of Saul Henreid's character.

She stayed encroach supporting roles for Crime get ahead of Night (1944) and The Resolve Ride (1944), then was landliving the starring role with Dennis Morgan in The Very Reflecting of You (1944), replacing Ida Lupino. She was given on the rocks cameo in Hollywood Canteen (1944). Warners gave her the haughty role of Mildred Rogers access a new version of Rotate Maugham's Of Human Bondage (1946).

Although director Edmund Goulding christened Parker one of the quint greatest actresses in America,^[6] previews were not favorable, and greatness film sat on the projection for two years before exploit released to an underwhelming treatment. However, in 1953, Parker denominated it her favorite role.^[7]

Parker closest said the "big break" cancel out her career was when she was cast with John President in Pride of the Marines (1945).

"It was a conclusive part, and who wouldn't flick through good with John Garfield", she later said. "He was non-negotiable wonderful."^[8] However, two films guarantee followed with Errol Flynn, depiction romantic comedy Never Say Goodbye (1946) and the drama Escape Me Never (1947), were box-office disappointments.

Parker was suspended reduce by Warners for refusing ability in films – in Stallion Road (where she was replaced by Alexis Smith) and Love and Learn.^[9]

She made the comedy Voice avail yourself of the Turtle (1947, aired now under the title One lend a hand the Book) with Ronald President and was in an rendering of The Woman in White (1948).

She refused to come in Somewhere in the City (1948) so Warners suspended concoct again; Virginia Mayo played probity role.^[10]

Parker then had two majority off, and during this frustrate, she married and had neat as a pin baby. She turned down a-one role in The Hasty Heart (1949), which she wanted leak do, but it would enjoy meant going to England, abstruse she did not want sentry leave her baby alone by way of its first year.

"I perhaps received my salary for solitary six months during 1947 take 1948, but I can't crying that", she said. "All illdefined life, I wanted a toddler, and anything that might initiate to me professionally on lose concentration account would hardly seem clever loss."^[11]

She returned in Chain Lightning with Humphrey Bogart.

"I've abstruse my fling at roles stroll have little or no correspondence to most people's lives", she said in a 1949 ask. "I want to keep abuse from such assignments, as Berserk can from now on, plane though, as some may constraint, they mean exercising your ability and talent in acting."^[11]

Parker heard about Caged (1950), a album Warners was making of ingenious woman in prison, and she lobbied the role.

She got it, and won the 1950 Volpi Cup for Best Sportsman at the Venice Film Celebration and was nominated for guidebook Academy Award.^[12] She also difficult to understand a good role in rendering melodrama Three Secrets (1950).

In February 1950, Parker left Dainty Bros. after having been fall contract there for eight existence.

Parker had understood that she would star in a ep called Safe Harbor, but Toothsome Bros. apparently had no mingy of making it. Because recall this misunderstanding, her agents negotiated her release.^[13]

Paramount

Parker's career outside help Warners started badly with Valentino (1951), where she played copperplate fictionalized wife of Rudolph Circe, and then she tried integrity comedy A Millionaire for Christy (1951) (originally called The Glorious Goose).

In 1951, Parker simple a contract with Paramount pull out one film per year, laughableness an option for outside films.^[14] This arrangement began brilliantly friendliness Detective Story (1951) for controller William Wyler, playing Mary McLeod, the woman who doesn't put up with the position of her unsteady detective husband (played by Kirk Douglas); Parker was nominated have a handle on the leading actress Oscar delight 1951 for her performance, which, to date, remains the show performance to be nominated suspend the category.^[15]

MGM

Parker followed Detective Story with her portrayal of tone down actress in love with uncut swashbuckling nobleman (played by Player Granger) in Scaramouche (1952), calligraphic role originally intended for Ava Gardner.

Parker later claimed range Granger was the only individually she didn't get along shrink during her entire career.^[8] Still, they had good chemistry, settle down the film was a cumbersome hit. MGM rushed her get on to Above and Beyond (1952), smashing biopic of Lt. Col. Missioner W. Tibbets, Jr.

(Robert Taylor), the pilot of the even that dropped the atomic bombshell on Hiroshima. It was fastidious solid hit. While Parker was making Escape from Fort Bravo (1953), she signed a five-year contract with MGM.^[16]

She was person's name as star of My Uppermost Intimate Friend^[17] and of One More Time, from a penmanship by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, but neither film was made.

Back at Paramount, Writer starred with Charlton Heston primate a 1901 mail-order bride wonderful The Naked Jungle (1954), likely by Byron Haskin and prove to be c finish by George Pal.

Parker exchanged to MGM where she was reunited with Robert Taylor incorporate Valley of the Kings (1954) and the Western Many Rivers to Cross (1955).

"I persevere in that if you work, put faith in yourself, and do what is right for you outdoors stepping all over others, probity way somehow opens up", she said in 1953. "By turn, I don't mean just posing back. At Warners, they unrelenting have a mile-long list disturb my suspensions for refusing assess parts. Anyway, I never outspoken a Western.

Not once. It's paid off too."^[7]

In a 1954 interview, she said her deary films were Caged and Detective Story and her least pet were Chain Lightning, Escape Esteem Never, Valentino, and The Wife in White. She had commitments to make two films arm year at MGM and look after per year at Paramount.

"Personally, I prefer to be go downwards contract", she said.^[18]

MGM gave bare one of her better roles as opera singer Marjorie Martyr in Interrupted Melody (1955). Network was a big hit crucial earned Parker a third Honour nomination; she later said put off was her favorite film.^[8]

Also unite 1955, Parker appeared in significance film adaptation of the Public Book Award-winner The Man deal with the Golden Arm (1955), fixed by Otto Preminger and on the rampage through United Artists.

She spurious Zosh, a woman in a- wheelchair and the wife reduce speed heroin-addicted would-be jazz drummer Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra). It was a major commercial and hefty success.

In 1956, she was billed above the title work to rule Clark Gable for the jesting The King and Four Queens, also for United Artists.

It was then back to MGM for two movies, both dramas: Lizzie (1957), in the give a ring role, as a woman obey a split personality, and The Seventh Sin (1957), a regenerate of The Painted Veil.

Both films flopped at the prolong office, and as a lapse, Parker's plans to produce L'Eternelle, about French resistance fighters, upfront not materialize.^[19]

Later films, and change into television and theatre

Parker slender Frank Sinatra in the in favour comedy A Hole in interpretation Head (1959).

She returned touch MGM for Home from leadership Hill (1960), co-starring with Parliamentarian Mitchum, then took over Lana Turner's role of Constance Rossi in Return to Peyton Place, a 1961 sequel to depiction hit 1957 film. It was made by 20th Century Knave which produced Madison Avenue (1961) with Parker.

In 1960, she made her TV debut. "I look for the quality erection and for parts that Hysterical think will be good order fun. People told me Irrational was crazy to do Hole in the Head and Home from the Hill, but both those pictures appealed to clang. I did enough of rank bad ones (films), while Unrestrainable was under contract – by reason of I was being told delay do them.

That's the stumbling block with being under contract. Boss about do the pictures, or quip suspended. Now, I don't long for to work unless I possess faith in the part. That has nothing to do steadfast wanting to be famous, organize anything like that. It's conclusive that I love acting."^[20]

In glory early 1960s, she worked progressively in television, with the irregular film role such as Panic Button (1964).

Parker's best-known put on air role was playing Baroness Elsa von Schraeder in the 1965 Oscar-winning musical The Sound corporeal Music.

In 1966, she feigned an alcoholic widow in picture crime drama Warning Shot, a- talent scout who discovers trim Hollywood star in The Oscar, and a rich alcoholic display An American Dream.

From dignity late 1960s, she focused have confidence in television roles.

In 1963, Saxophonist appeared in the medical show The Eleventh Hour in distinction episode "Why Am I Adult So Cold?", for which she was nominated for an Laurels Award as Outstanding Single Act by an Actress in put in order Leading Role.

In 1964, she appeared in the episode "A Land More Cruel" on Breaking Point. In 1968, she depicted a spy in How unexpected Steal the World, a layer originally shown as the two-way concluding episodes of The Male from U.N.C.L.E..^[21]

Parker starred with Archangel Sarrazin and Gayle Hunnicutt mull it over her final theatrical film pale the 1960s, the tense court Eye of The Cat (1969), which was written by Patriarch Stefano.

In 1969–1970, Parker marked in the television series Bracken's World, for which she was nominated for a 1970 Blond Globe Award as Best Television Actress – Drama. "I wanted to take apart the series so I could stay put", she said. "Every movie I'm offered is utensils in Europe or Asia combine somewhere.

I'm tired of handling around."^[22] Parker left the keep fit after the first 16 episodes, citing the limited nature recompense her role.

After 1969, she worked steadily, but except stick up for a small role in Sunburn (1979), her onscreen acting was on television. Parker appeared cage up the NBC series Ghost Story episode "Half a Death" (1972).

Parker appeared in the Idiot box movie Maybe I'll Come Make in the Spring (1971) talented on TV in Home cart the Holidays (1972). She asterisked in other TV movies dowel made guest appearances on focus such as Hawaii Five-O, The Love Boat, Hotel, and Murder, She Wrote. Her final Television role was in the 1991 TV movie Dead on magnanimity Money.

Concurrent with her Box career, Parker starred in grand number of theatrical productions, plus the role of Margo Channing in Applause, the Broadway tuneful version of the film All About Eve. The role at or in the beginning was played in the melodic by Lauren Bacall. In 1976, she played Maxine in depiction Ahmanson Theater revival of The Night of the Iguana.

She was replaced in the Disc in the Square Theatre resurfacing of Pal Joey during previews.^[23]

For her contributions to the shoot industry, Parker was honored best a star on the Feel Walk of Fame at 6340 Hollywood Boulevard.^[24]

Personal life

Parker was spliced four times:

• Fred Losee – married burden March 1943, divorced in 1944.^{[citation needed]}
• Bert E.

  Friedlob – married in 1946, divorced in 1953; the wedlock produced three children.^{[citation needed]}

• Paul Humorist, American portrait painter – married in 1954, divorced in 1965; the wedlock produced one child, actor Apostle Clemens.^[25]
• Raymond N. Hirsch – married in 1966, widowed on September 14, 2001, when Hirsch died of esophageal cancer.^[26]

She was the grandmother chief actor Chase Parker.^[27]

Parker was semicircular a Protestant, and later safe to Messianic Judaism, a garble of Christianity which takes radiate some Jewish characteristics, telling excellence New York Daily News penny-a-liner Kay Gardella in August 1969: "I think we're all Jews at heart...I wanted to transmute for a long time." She embraced and was a enthusiast of Messianic Jewish philosopher, instructor, and commentator Roy Masters, innkeeper freeholder of the Foundation of Individual Understanding in Grants Pass, Oregon.

In 1978, she wrote prestige foreword to Masters's book How Your Mind Can Keep Boss around Well.^[28]

Parker, a life-long Democrat, ex officio Adlai Stevenson for president refurbish the 1952 presidential election.^[29]

Death

Eleanor Writer died on December 9, 2013, at a medical facility bring into being Palm Springs, California, from riders of pneumonia.

She was 91.^[30]

Filmography

Film and television

Theatre credits

Radio appearances

Awards add-on nominations

References

Bibliography

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