Jean Hagen

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean Hagen (born Jean Shirley Verhagen, August 3, 1923 – August 29, 1977) was an American actress best known for her role as Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain (1952), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Hagen was also nominated three times for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Margaret Williams (1953–56) on the television series Make Room For Daddy. Her film debut was as a comical femme fatale in the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn 1949 classic Adam's Rib, directed by George Cukor. The Asphalt Jungle (1950) provided Hagen with her first starring role alongside Sterling Hayden. Hagen received excellent reviews playing "Doll" Conover, a woman who sticks by criminal Dix's side until the bitter end. She appeared too in the film noir Side Street (1950) playing a gangster's sincere but none-too-bright nightclub-singer girlfriend. Hagen is best remembered for her comic performance in Singin' in the Rain as the vain and talentless silent movie star Lina Lamont. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for this memorable performance. By 1953, she had joined the cast of the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy. For her portrayal as the first wife of Danny Thomas, Hagen received three Emmy Award nominations, but after three seasons, she grew dissatisfied with the role and left the series. Thomas, who also produced the show, reportedly did not appreciate Hagen's departing the successful series, and her character was killed off rather than recast. This was the first TV character to be killed off in a family sitcom. Marjorie Lord was cast a year later as Danny's second wife and played opposite Thomas successfully for the remainder of the series. In 1957 Hagen co-starred in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents titled "Enough Rope for Two", portraying a woman who accompanies two thieves trying to retrieve stolen money from a desert mine shaft. She then appeared as Elizabeth in the 1960 episode "Once Upon a Knight" on CBS's anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson; and the following year she guest-starred on The Andy Griffith Show in the episode "Andy and the Woman Speeder". Although she made frequent guest appearances in various television series, Hagen was unable to successfully resume her film career in starring roles. After appearing with Fred MacMurray in the Disney comedy The Shaggy Dog (1959), Hagen for the remainder of her career played supporting roles, such as Marguerite LeHand, personal secretary to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello (1960), and the friend of Bette Davis in Dead Ringer (1964). In the 1960s, Hagen's health began to decline and she spent many years hospitalized or under medical care. Much later, in 1976, she made a comeback of sorts playing character roles in episodes of the television series Starsky and Hutch and The Streets of San Francisco. She, however, made her final acting appearance the next year in the television movie Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn.

Known For: Acting

Born: Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1923-08-03

Died: 1977-08-29

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	Adam's Rib	Beryl Caighn	71
2	1950	Ambush	Martha Conovan	51
3	1950	Side Street	Harriette Sinton	66
4	1950	The Asphalt Jungle	Doll Conovan	75
5	1950	A Life of Her Own	Maggie Collins	53
6	1951	Night Into Morning	Girl Next Door	58
7	1951	No Questions Asked	Joan Brenson	60
8	1952	Singin' in the Rain	Lina Lamont	81
9	1952	Carbine Williams	Maggie Williams	64
10	1952	Shadow in the Sky	Stella Murphy	66
11	1953	Half a Hero	Martha Dobson	55
12	1953	Arena	Meg Hutchins	47
13	1953	Latin Lovers	Anne Kellwood	46
14	1955	The Big Knife	Connie Bliss	59
15	1957	Spring Reunion	Barna Forrest	58
16	1959	The Shaggy Dog	Freeda Daniels	61
17	1960	The Snows of Kilimanjaro	Rhoda	0
18	1960	Sunrise at Campobello	Missy Le Hand	60
19	1962	Panic in Year Zero!	Ann Baldwin	62
20	1964	Dead Ringer	Dede Marshall	69
21	1977	Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn	Landlady	59
22	2002	Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer	Self (archive footage)	77

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1952	The Ford Television Theatre	Nona Carson	73
2	1953	General Electric Theater	Paula Farrel	63
3	1953	The Danny Thomas Show	Margaret Williams	60
4	1954	The Jimmy Durante Show	Self	0
5	1954	Climax!	Eleanor Gehrig	33
6	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Madge Griffin	77
7	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Anne Madden	55
8	1957	Wagon Train	Maidie Brant	63
9	1957	Wagon Train	Sarah Proctor	63
10	1958	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse		58
11	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Elizabeth	63
12	1959	The Detectives	Alice Streger	56
13	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Elizabeth Crowley	76
14	1960	Stagecoach West	Lilly de Milo	60
15	1961	Dr. Kildare	Nurse Mary Ogilvy	55
16	1961	Ben Casey		56
17	1970	Make Room for Granddaddy		50
18	1972	The Streets of San Francisco	Ms. Unger	69
19	1975	Starsky & Hutch	Belle Kates	73

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