Jean Brooks

Acting

Jean Brooks

Born December 23, 1915 · Houston, Texas, USA

Died November 25, 1963 · aged 47

Fluent in Spanish, Jean Brooks began professionally by singing with Enric Madriguera and Orchestra in New York. She had a small role in the New York City-filmed The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935) and the second lead in a Broadway play, "Name Your Poison" (1938), with Lenore Ulric, all under her real name of Jeanne Kelly. She was signed by an independent film production company that had gone under b…

Known For

The Invisible Man ReturnsThe Invisible Man Returns · 1940
The Invisible Man Returns
★ 6.31940
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Buck PrivatesBuck Privates · 1941
Buck Privates
★ 6.81941
MovieComedyMusic
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
The Seventh VictimThe Seventh Victim · 1943
The Seventh Victim
★ 6.41943
MovieHorrorMystery
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!The Green Hornet Strikes Again! · 1940
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
★ 6.81940
MovieActionAdventure
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
Flash Gordon Conquers the UniverseFlash Gordon Conquers the Universe · 1940
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
★ 5.81940
MovieScience FictionAction
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
The Falcon in HollywoodThe Falcon in Hollywood · 1944
The Falcon in Hollywood
★ 6.21944
MovieCrimeMystery
Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find himself involved in the murder of a movie actor. There's no shortage of suspects: the costume designer to whom he was married, a tyrannical director, a beautiful young French starlet, a Shakespeare-quoting producer, even a New York gangster. Helping The Falcon solve the crime is a cute, wise-cracking cab driver and a pair of bumbling cops.
Youth Runs WildYouth Runs Wild · 1944
Youth Runs Wild
★ 4.51944
MovieDrama
The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
The Falcon in DangerThe Falcon in Danger · 1943
The Falcon in Danger
★ 6.11943
MovieCrimeMystery
Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot against the government.

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The Boss of Big TownThe Boss of Big Town · 1942
The Boss of Big Town
★ 6.21942
MovieActionThriller
Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for character actors who aspired to occasional leading roles. In Boss of Big Town, veteran supporting player John Litel is top-billed as crusading city market official Michael Lynn. When a criminal gang muscles in on the local food distribution markets, Lynn vows to throw the rascals out. First, however, he pretends to join the villains as a paid government stooge, the better to find out the identity of the "Mister Big" behind the distribution racket. The exposure of the "mystery villain" will come as a shock to fans of the 1927 Cecil B. DeMille epic The King of Kings--but not to dyed-in-the-wool movie buffs.

Iris Moore

Riders of Death ValleyRiders of Death Valley · 1941
Riders of Death Valley
★ 6.81941
MovieActionWestern
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones. The latter contributed deadpan humor to the proceedings, making Jones perhaps the highest paid B-western comedy relief in history. The two heroes defend the Death Valley borax miners from an outlaw gang headed by Wolf Reade. An extraordinarily strong cast -- for a serial, at least -- supported the stars, headed by Charles Bickford as Reade, Leo Carillo, Lon Chaney, Jr., and silent screen star Monte Blue. Leading lady Jeanne Kelly later changed her name to Jean Brooks and starred in the atmospheric RKO thriller The Seventh Victim (1943). Universal claimed to have spent $1 million on this serial and made sure to get their money's worth by endlessly recycling the action footage in serials and B-westerns for years to come.

Mary Morgan (as Jeanne Kelly)