Eleanor Jean Parker
| Sign | Cancer |
| Born | Jun 26, 1922 Cedarville, OH |
| Died | Dec 9, 2013 Palm Springs, CA |
| Age | Died at 91 |
Eleanor Parker | |
| Job | Actress |
| Years active | 1941-1991 |
| Top Roles | Eloise Rogers, Zosch Machine, Mike's Wife on Record, Janet Wheeler, Ellen Gayley |
| Top Genres | Drama, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, Mystery, Crime |
| Top Topics | World War II, Book-Based, Based on Play |
| Top Collaborators | Jack L. Warner (Producer), Jerry Wald (Producer), Errol Flynn, Delmer Daves (Director) |
| Shares birthday with | Peter Lorre, Viola Dana, Jeanne Eagels see more.. |
Eleanor Parker Overview:
Legendary actress, Eleanor Parker, was born Eleanor Jean Parker on Jun 26, 1922 in Cedarville, OH. Parker appeared in over 75 film and TV roles. Her best known films include Between Two Worlds, Hollywood Canteen, Pride of the Marines, Never Say Goodbye, Detective Story, Scaramouche, The Naked Jungle and The Man with the Golden Arm. Parker is probably most famously remembered for her role as Baroness Elsa Schraeder in the 1965 film, The Sound Of Music (starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer). Parker died at the age of 91 on Dec 9, 2013 in Palm Springs, CA .
MINI BIO:
Warmly upper-bracket, Eleanor Parker was at her best in films where she had the dominant role or played a strong-willed woman. Less effective as straight-forward heroines, she played substantial leading roles from 1946 to 1957, surprisingly declining before she was 40. She was just the sort of actress that one would expect to have won an Oscar, although in fact she hadn't, having been unsuccessfully nominated three times.
(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Stars).HONORS and AWARDS:
.Although Parker was nominated for three Oscars, she never won a competitive Academy Award.
Academy Awards
| Year | Award | Film name | Role | Result |
| 1950 | Best Actress | Caged (1950) | Marie Allen | Nominated |
| 1951 | Best Actress | Detective Story (1951) | Mary McLeod | Nominated |
| 1955 | Best Actress | Interrupted Melody (1955) | Marjorie Lawrence | Nominated |
She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.
BlogHub Articles:
Sum Up | : Oscar Nominee
By Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 22, 2019 From The Stop Buttondid not win any Academy Awards, which is simultaneously obvious and inexplicable. The latter because she obviously deserved one (or six), the former because if she had won any, she?d have been better known in the eighties and nineties, when home video and basic cable drove classic fil... Read full article
On DVD: in The Last Ride (1944)
By KC on Nov 7, 2018 From Classic MoviesBriskly-paced and clocking in at just under an hour The Last Ride (1944) is a moderately entertaining wartime crime programmer. While chiefly of historical interest, it has a little more zing than other flicks of its kind. The film recently made its DVD debut from Warner Archive. Though Eleanor Par... Read full article
Actor | , Part 4: Guest Star
By Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 24, 2018 From The Stop ButtonWhen she starred in Eye of the Cat, had been in more than forty theatrical films. She was forty-seven years old. She had just been in the biggest movie of all time?1965?s The Sound of Music. When Eye of the Cat came out in June 1969, Sound of Music was still playing in theaters in its... Read full article
Actor | , Part 3: Baroness
By Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 17, 2018 From The Stop ButtonGoing into the nineteen sixties, ?s acting career seemed to have regained some of its recently lost momentum. Home from the Hill, released in March 1960, brought Parker into a genre she?d long avoided?the all-star soap. And?in addition to Parker being outstanding in the film, Hill had ... Read full article
Actor | , Part 2: Technicolor
By Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 8, 2018 From The Stop ButtonWhen left her Warner Bros. contract in early 1950, she did so before any of her films of that year released. There were three–Chain Lightning, Caged, and Three Secrets. All three were successful. She was top-billed on the latter two (and second-billed only to Bogart in Lightning... Read full article
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Eleanor Parker Quotes:
Sophie Cantaro: [angrily] Look at me when you talk to me! I'm not some sort of garbage pail you can slap a lid on and walk away!
Marie Allen: For that forty bucks I heisted I sure got myself an education.
Bushrod Gentry: I thought they called you Stepping Woman.
Mary Stuart Cherne: I been stepping all day.
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