Movies List
TV Show List
Immediate Family

as Michael's Mother

1989
Just Between Friends

as Ruth Chadwick

1986
Against All Odds

as Mrs. Wyler

1984
The Outfit

as Alma

1973
Billie

as Agnes Carol

1965
Where Love Has Gone

as Marian Spicer

1964
Man of a Thousand Faces

as Hazel Bennet Chaney

1957
Run for the Sun

as Katherine 'Katie' Connors

1956
Down Among the Sheltering Palms

as Diana Forrester

1953
The Prisoner of Zenda

as Antoinette de Mauban

1952
Desperate Search

as Julie Heldon

1952
You for Me

as Katie McDermad

1952
The Company She Keeps

as Diane Stuart aka Mildred Lynch

1951
You're in the Navy Now

as Ellie C. Harkness

1951
The Big Steal

as Joan 'Chiquita' Graham

1949
Station West

as Charlie

1948
Out of the Past

as Kathie Moffat

1947
They Won't Believe Me

as Janice Bell

1947
Sinbad the Sailor

as Pirouze

1947
The Falcon's Alibi

as Lola Carpenter

1946
The Bamboo Blonde

as Eileen Sawyer

1946
Sunset Pass

as Lolite Baxter

1946
Two O'Clock Courage

as Helen Carter (as Bettejane Greer)

1945
Dick Tracy

as Judith Owens

1945
George White's Scandals

as Billie Randall

1945
Pan-Americana

as Miss Downing (uncredited)

1945
Jane Greer Jane Greer

Birthday

1924-09-09

Place of Birth

Washington, D.C., United States

Biography

Jane Greer was a film and television actress who was perhaps best known for her role as femme fatale Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir Out of the Past. A beauty-contest winner and professional model from her teens, Greer began her show-business career as a big-band singer. She sang in Washington, DC, with the orchestra of Enric Madriguera. She "sang phonetically in Spanish" with the group. Howard Hughes spotted Greer modeling in the June 8, 1942 issue of Life, and sent her to Hollywood to become an actress. Hughes lent her to RKO to star in many films (another source says Greer's husband, Rudy Vallee, "helped her get out of her contract with Hughes and secure another pact with RKO Studios") including Dick Tracy, Out of the Past, They Won't Believe Me, and the comedy/suspense film The Big Steal, with Out of the Past co-star Robert Mitchum. Hughes refused to let her work for a time; when she finally began film acting, she appeared in You're in the Navy Now, The Prisoner of Zenda, Run for the Sun, and Man of a Thousand Faces. In 1984, she was cast in Against All Odds, a remake of Out of the Past, as the mother of the character she had played in 1947. In 1952, Greer obtained a release from her contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. She said, "When there is a good role at MGM, the producers want Lana or Ava. There is no chance for another actress to develop into important stardom at the studio". Greer's noteworthy roles in television included guest appearances on episodes of numerous shows over the decades, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Bonanza, Quincy, M.E., Murder, She Wrote, and a 1975 gig with Peter Falk and Robert Vaughn in an episode of Columbo titled Troubled Waters. She even got to make fun of Out of the Past in a parody with Robert Mitchum on TV's Saturday Night Live in 1987. Greer joined the casts of Falcon Crest in 1984 and Twin Peaks in 1990 in recurring roles until her retirement in 1996. Greer was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1634 Vine Street for her contributions to the motion picture industry. The star was dedicated on February 8, 1960. Greer died of cancer on August 24, 2001, at the age of 76, in Bel Air, Los Angeles. Her body was interred at Los Angeles' Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jane Greer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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