Jean HagenFilmography

The Streets of San Francisco: Judgment Day

Synopsis: After two weeks' pre-emption due to the 1976 Winter Olympics, Streets of San Francisco returned to ABC's Thursday schedule with a typically perplaxing case for SFPD detectives Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas). Four judges have been murdered, and in each case an obsolete pamphlet on Read More

Dead Ringer

Actors: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford, Philip Carey, Jean Hagen

Synopsis: Though he's most famous for his portrayal of Victor Laszlo in 1942's Casablanca, actor Paul Henreid took a few turns behind the camera as evidenced by this 1964 thriller starring Bette Davis as twins Margaret DeLorca and Edith Phillips. After landing the beau they both sought after by falsely Read More

Panic in Year Zero

Actors: Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Mary Mitchell, Joan Freeman

Synopsis: Ray Milland both starred in and directed the morose, minimalist sci-fier Panic in the Year Zero! (original title: Panic in Year Zero!). En route from Los Angeles to a vacation in the mountains, Harry Baldwin (Milland), his wife, Ann (Jean Hagen), and his teen-aged children, Rick (Frankie Avalon) Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Andy and the Woman Driver

Actors: Jean Hagen

Synopsis: Jean Hagen guest-stars as beautiful but reckless motorist Liz Crowley, who is arrested for doing 70 in a 45-mile zone by Mayberry sheriff Andy Taylor. Using her considerable charm-and her seemingly limitless monetary resources-Elizabeth manages to coerce witnesses Opie, Floyd and Barney into Read More

Sunrise at Campobello

Actors: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen, Ann Shoemaker

Synopsis: One of only two theatrical features by television director Vincent J. Donahue, Sunrise at Campobello is a biography of President Franklin D. Roosevelt that attempts to illustrate the statesman's courageous battle against infantile paralysis and his political foes. While in the prime of his life Read More

The Shaggy Dog

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Tim Considine

Synopsis: This is a routine Disney comedy-fantasy about a boy who turns into a large sheep dog at the most inopportune moments. That is assuming there would be opportune moments. Young Wilby Daniels (Tommy Kirk) finds a magic ring that used to belong to the Borgia family. When he pronounces an inscription Read More

Spring Reunion

Actors: Dana Andrews, Betty Hutton, Jean Hagen, Sara Berner, Robert Simon, Laura La Plante

Synopsis: After several years' absence from the screen, the vivacious Betty Hutton made a somewhat tepid comeback in Spring Reunion. The scene is a medium-sized Midwestern town, where Maggie Brewster (Hutton) is reacquainted with her high-school flame Fred Davis (Dana Andrews) during a class reunion. The Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Enough Rope for Two

Synopsis: Released from prison, criminal Joe Kedzie (Steven Hill) makes a beeline to an abandoned mine shaft in the desert, where he has hidden 100,000 dollars in stolen money. Hot on Joe's heels are his two cohorts, Maxie (Steve Brodie) and Madge, (Jean Hagen), who hope to claim their share of the dough Read More

Climax!: The Lou Gehrig Story

Actors: Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen

Synopsis: The Lou Gehrig Story stars Wendell Corey as the legendary New York Yankees first baseman. With only an hour at its disposal, the play is compelled to concentrate almost exclusively on Gehrig's losing battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The highlight of the drama is Lou's emotional farewell Read More

The Big Knife

Actors: Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: Robert Aldrich's screen adaptation of Clifford Odets' stage play reflects the quandary of the writer's later career; the golden boy of the Group Theater in the '30s, when his plays were the toast of Broadway, his talent seemed to wither after a number of years in the screenwriting trenches, and a Read More

Half a Hero

Actors: Red Skelton, Jean Hagen, Charles Dingle, Willard Waterman, Mary Wickes

Synopsis: Red Skelton does his best with the situation-comedy trappings of Half a Hero. A sort of poor man's Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, the story concerns one Ben Dobson (Skelton), whose wife Martha (Jean Hagen) talks him into leaving the big city and moving into a suburban housing development. Read More

The Danny Thomas Show

Latin Lovers

Actors: Lana Turner, Ricardo Montalban, John Lund, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen

Synopsis: Lana Turner stars in this musical/romantic comedy amalgam from director Mervyn Leroy. Turner plays Nora Taylor, a wealthy heiress who finds herself seeing a psychiatrist because she can't decide whether she is loved for herself or her money. When her rich boyfriend (John Lund) takes off for Read More

Make Room for Daddy [TV Series]

Actors: Danny Thomas

Synopsis: Make Room for Daddy was the first modern family sitcom, although, to see it at any time since the 1960s, one would think that it was hopelessly dated. In fact, it was the most important 1950s sitcom after I Love Lucy -- and has a production history closely connected to that show -- and it spawned Read More

Arena

Actors: Gig Young, Jean Hagen, Polly Bergen, Barbara Lawrence

Synopsis: Bob Danvers, an arrogant, irresponsible rodeo star, retaliates for losing his wife by having an affair with a pretty fan in this melodrama. His wife, Ruth, really loves him, but she can no longer handle his selfishness and leaves. Hob has his moment of truth at a major Tucson rodeo when his Read More

Singin' in the Rain

Actors: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell

Synopsis: Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the toast of Tinseltown. While Lockwood and Lamont personify smoldering passions onscreen, in real life the down-to-earth Lockwood can't stand the egotistical, brainless Lina. He prefers the Read More

Carbine Williams

Actors: James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey, Carl Benton Reid, Paul Stewart

Synopsis: The tougher postwar screen image of James Stewart is given a good workout in the fact-based Carbine Williams. In 1952, the world at large knew Marsh Williams as the developer of the US Army's M-1 carbine rifle. The film builds up to this event by detailing Williams' previous existence as a Read More

Shadow in the Sky

Actors: Ralph Meeker, Nancy Davis, James Whitmore, Gladys Hurlbut

Synopsis: A minor but effective MGM programmer, Shadow in the Sky stars Ralph Meeker as a shell-shocked World War II veteran. He is taken in by sympathetic relatives, who hope that a stable environment will help Meeker overcome his neuroses. But even these people find their compassion strained to the Read More

Night into Morning

Actors: Ray Milland, John Hodiak, Nancy Davis, Lewis Stone, Jean Hagen

Synopsis: Ray Milland plays a happily married college professor whose wife and child perish in a fire. Despondent, Milland loses himself in drink, despite the efforts of his friends and fellow faculty members. He is on the verge of suicide before he is salvaged the love of Nancy Davis (who off-screen was Read More

No Questions Asked

Actors: Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy, Jean Hagen, Richard Anderson

Synopsis: Barry Sullivan plays an eager young lawyer who is willing to sacrifice any and all scruples on the upward climb. He is put on retainer by a gangster, and soon is ankle-deep in an insurance racket. When he wants to pull out, Sullivan is framed for a gangland murder. No Questions Asked was in line Read More

The Asphalt Jungle

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe

Synopsis: The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, "a left-handed form of human endeavor." Recently paroled master criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), with funding from crooked attorney Emmerich Read More

A Life of Her Own

Actors: Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell, Louis Calhern, Ann Dvorak, Jean Hagen

Synopsis: Lana Turner stars as an ambitious model who seeks her fortune in New York City. She is befriended by over-the-hill cover-girl Ann Dvorak, whose performance carries the story until she commits suicide twenty minutes into the film. Turner promises herself that she won't end up burned out like Read More

Ambush

Actors: Robert Taylor, John Hodiak, Arlene Dahl, Don Taylor, Jean Hagen

Synopsis: Ambush is a tight, well-paced western, expertly assembled by veteran director Sam Wood, whose last film this was. Robert Taylor stars as an Indian scout, sent to rescue a woman who is somewhere deep in Apache territory. The woman's sister, naturally, goes along for the ride: she is played by Arlene Dahl Read More

Side Street

Actors: Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, James Craig, Paul Kelly, Jean Hagen

Synopsis: Farley Granger plays a casually larcenous New York City mailman who steals a shipment of money. Granger's excitement over this windfall turns to terror when he discovers that the money was part of a transaction between gangsters. Harassed by both crooks and cops, Granger lives to regret his Read More

Adam's Rib

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne

Synopsis: Written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, Adam's Rib is a peerless comedy predicated on the double standard. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn play Adam and Amanda Bonner, a husband-and-wife attorney team, both drawn to a case of attempted murder. The defendant (Judy Holliday) had tearfully Read More