Actor
Gloria Jean
April 14, 1926 · Buffalo, New York, USA
Gloria Jean (born Gloria Jean Schoonover, April 14, 1926 – August 31, 2018) was an American actress and singer who starred or co-starred in 26 feature films from 1939 to 1959, and made numerous radio, television, stage, and nightclub appearances. She is probably best remembered today for her appearance with W.C. Fields in the film Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941).
Gloria Jean was three years old when she first sang on radio; in Scranton, Pennsylvania, she sang, under the name "Baby Skylark", with Paul Whiteman's orchestra on radio broadcasts. When she was 12, she was engaged by a New York opera company and became the youngest member of an opera troupe in the United States.
Often works with
Donald O'Connor
6 titles together
Follow the Boys, It Comes Up Love, Mister Big
Peggy Ryan
6 titles together
Follow the Boys, Mister Big, What's Cookin'?
Irving Bacon
3 titles together
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, Mister Big, Get Hep to Love
Grace McDonald
3 titles together
Follow the Boys, Destiny, What's Cookin'?
Virginia Brissac
3 titles together
If I Had My Way, Moonlight in Vermont, Get Hep to Love
Samuel S. Hinds
3 titles together
I'll Remember April, Mister Big, The Under-Pup
Full filmography · 26
The Ladies Man
as Gloria
19616.3
Air Strike
as Marg Huggins
1955
There's a Girl in My Heart
as Ruth Kroner
1949
Manhattan Angel
as Gloria Cole
1949
An Old-Fashioned Girl
as Polly Milton
1949
I Surrender Dear
as Patty Nelson aka Patty Hart
1948
Copacabana
as Anne Stuart
19475.4
River Gang
as Wendy
1945
Easy to Look At
cast
1945
I'll Remember April
as April Garfield
1945
Destiny
as Jane Broderick
1944
Reckless Age
as Linda Wadsworth
1944