Jean Muir
Birthday: 1911-02-13 Place of Birth: Northampton, England, UK
Synopsis
Jean Muir (born Jean Muir Fullarton) was an American stage and film actress and educator. She was the first performer to be blacklisted after her name appeared in the infamous anti-Communist 1950 pamphlet 'Red Channels'.
Acting
The Constant Nymph
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.
And One Was Beautiful
A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
Fugitive in the Sky
Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is on the trail of a criminal, decides to go along to get a story.
White Fang
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Stars Over Broadway
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
The White Cockatoo
In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
As the Earth Turns
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
Desirable
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Gentlemen Are Born
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
Son of a Sailor
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
