Parker, Eleanor (1922–)
Parker, Eleanor (1922–)
American actress. Born Eleanor Jean Parker in Cedarville, Ohio, June 26, 1922; m. Fred Losee, 1943 (div. 1944); m. Bert Friedlob, 1946 (div. 1953); m. Paul Clemens, 1954 (div. 1965); m. Raymond Hirsch, 1966; children: (2nd m.) 3, including Paul Clemens (actor); (3rd. m.) 1.
Received early acting experience at Cleveland Playhouse, as well as in stock and at Pasadena Playhouse; made film debut in bit part in They Died with Their Boots On (1941); played a variety of roles, from vixens to long-suffering wives, and won Academy Award nominations as Best Actress for performances in Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951), and Interrupted Melody (1955), in which she portrayed opera singer Marjorie Lawrence; after 1960, made few films, among them The Sound of Music (1965); other films include Pride of the Marines (1945), Of Human Bondage (1946), Escape Me Never (1947), The Voice of the Turtle (1948), The Woman in White (1948), Three Secrets (1950), Valentino (1951), Scaramouche (1952), Above and Beyond (1953), Escape from Fort Bravo (1953), The Naked Jungle (1954), Valley of the Kings (1954), Many Rivers to Cross (1955), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The King and Four Queens (1956), Lizzie (1957), A Hole in the Head (1959), Home from the Hill (1960), Return to Peyton Place (1961) and The Oscar (1966).