Jacqueline Fontaine

Jacqueline Fontaine

Joyce Elaine Romeo, the raven-haired daughter of Orlando and Emma Romeo of 5606 34th Avenue in Kenosha, Wisconsin, studied at the nearby McKinley Junior High School and the downtown Mary D. Bradford High School while simultaneously nurturing her dreams of performing before appreciative audiences. She made her first such appearances in Chicago clubs before coming to Los Angeles for George White's Scandals and Billy Gray's Band Box (Dorothy Kilgallen noted her in July, 1946 as a dancer at LaConga) and local television. One such telecast caught the eye of producer Ron Ormond who signed her for "Outlaw Women" (1952) without a screen test. Previously she had appeared with Mickey Rooney as "the other woman" in The Strip. Also in 1952 Jacki (as she was labeled on Crystalette Records songs) worked with Jack Carson at the Sahati's Country Club Casino in Stateline, Nevada. Bing Crosby noticed her at a Pebble Beach golf tournament and cast her in The Country Girl. Later she did live appearances with comic Lenny Kent at the Casino Lounge in the Mapes Hotel and in 1962 with Buddy Lester at New Facks and at the Losers Club in Hollywood. and by 1965 at the Jamaica Room of the West Valley Bowl and at Sunset Boulevard's Key Club. Three years later she worked as a regular in a troupe with singer-comic Duke Mitchell, and by the 1970s she was seen at Aladdin's Funny Farm, the new Nine Thousand and the Fire and Flame in North Hollywood, with billing calling her "The Performer's Performer".

Known For: Acting

Born: Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA, 1927-11-17

Died: 1995-08-01

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1946	Back Streets of Paris		61
2	1948	Impasse of Two Angels		56
3	1950	The Daltons' Women	Jacqueline Fontaine	20
4	1951	Skipalong Rosenbloom	Caroline Witherspoon	0
5	1951	Untamed Mistress	Velda	45
6	1951	The Strip	Frieda	57
7	1952	Outlaw Women	Ellen Larabee	46
8	1954	The Country Girl	Lounge Singer	69
9	1956	The Lieutenant Wore Skirts	Buxom Blonde at Party	55
10	1959	Born to Be Loved	Dame	52
11	1961	The Ladies Man	Working Girl	63
12	1962	The Cross and the Banner		0
13	1965	Le naïf amoureux	A client	0
14	1966	Alvarez Kelly	Bordello Girl	62
15	1966	Murderers' Row	Singer at Wake (uncredited)	58
16	1967	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Singer (uncredited)	76
17	1969	Under the Sign of the Bull	Louise, la domestique des Raynal	63
18	1971	Les Cent livres : A la recherche du temps perdu		0
19	1972	The Egg	(uncredited)	57
20	1974	How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby	La femme de Marcel	55
21	1975	It's Tough for Everybody		55
22	1977	Bilitis	Supervisor	53
23	1982	Lorsque l'enfant parait	Charlotte Jacquet	0
24	1990	Gallant Ladies	Parente Labadens	33

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1958	Les Cinq Dernières Minutes	La réceptionniste	0
2	1966	At Theatre Tonight	Hélène	67

Jacqueline Fontaine

Film

Television