Jeanne Crain, the winsome beauty who starred in lightweight 1940s romances and comedies such as ” Margie ” and ” Apartment for Peggy ” and won an Academy Award nomination as the black girl passing for ...
Jeanne Crain’s ascent to movie stardom in the 1940s had all the earmarks of the classic local-girl-becomes-Hollywood-star story. Her parents, George Crain and Loretta Carr, met while he was a ...