The best Jeanne Crain’s drama movies

Jeanne Crain

Jeanne Crain

25/05/1925- 14/12/2003
Today we present the best Jeanne Crain’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Jeanne Crain’s movies.
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People Will Talk

People Will Talk
7.3/10
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.

A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/01/1949
  • Character: Deborah Bishop
Lora May Hollingsway, who grew up next to the wrong side of the tracks, married her boss who thinks she is just a gold digger. Rita Phipps makes as much money writing radio scripts at night as her school teacher husband does. Deborah Bishop looked great in a Navy uniform in WWII but fears she'll never be dressed just right for the Country Club set. These three wives are boarding a boat filled with children going on a picnic when a messenger on a bicycle hands them a letter addressed to all three from Addie who has just left town with one of their husbands. They won't know which one until that night.

The Fastest Gun Alive

The Fastest Gun Alive
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 12/07/1956
  • Character: Dora Temple
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when he's drunk. All citizens swear to keep his secret and support him to give up his guns forever -- but a boy tells the story to a gang of wanted criminals. Their leader threatens to burn down the whole town, if he doesn't duel him.

Pontius Pilate

Pontius Pilate
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/02/1962
  • Character: Claudia Procula
The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned Christ to death. Based on the biblical Gospel of John.

O. Henry's Full House

O. Henry's Full House
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/08/1952
  • Character: Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critic's acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".

Leave Her to Heaven

Leave Her to Heaven
7.6/10
A young novelist, Richard Harland, meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train where they fall in love and are soon married. When tragedies take first his handicapped young brother, then his unborn son from him, Harland gradually realises that his wife's insane jealousy may be the cause of the tragedies in his life. Yet another shock awaits them all, as Ellen's emotions become uncontrollable.

Pinky

Pinky
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/09/1949
  • Character: Patricia 'Pinky' Johnson
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, Pinky has fallen in love with a young white doctor, Dr. Thomas Adams, who knows nothing about her black heritage.

The Joker Is Wild

The Joker Is Wild
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/09/1957
  • Character: Letty Page
Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis (Frank Sinatra) has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the employ of Chicago mob boss Georgie Parker (Ted de Corsia). A broken alcoholic, Joe is brought back from the abyss by his faithful piano player, Austin Mack (Eddie Albert), who helps turn the former singer into a successful stand-up comedian. But Joe's demons plague his romantic life even as he reaches new heights of success.

Cheaper by the Dozen

Cheaper by the Dozen
7/10
"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.

Skyjacked

Skyjacked
5.7/10
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.

State Fair

State Fair
7/10
During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel (Charles Winninger) has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa (Fay Bainter) enters the mincemeat and pickles contest...with hilarious results.

Dangerous Crossing

Dangerous Crossing
6.9/10
A young bride is set to begin her honeymoon aboard a luxury liner. Her happiness does not last when she finds that her husband has disappeared. Trouble is, no one else ever saw him board the ship with her and his name has mysteriously dropped from the passenger list.

Madison Avenue

Madison Avenue
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/01/1962
  • Character: Peggy Shannon
An adman (Dana Andrews) and an adwoman (Eleanor Parker) put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House.

The Model and the Marriage Broker

The Model and the Marriage Broker
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/11/1951
  • Character: Kitty Bennett
A marriage broker can't resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results.

Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile

Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
5.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 20/09/1961
  • Character: Nefertiti
Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.

Home in Indiana

Home in Indiana
6.5/10
'Sparke' Thorton, a lad with a penchant for trouble, is sent to live with his Uncle and Aunt Bolt in Indiana after his Aunt Henrietta Bolt dies. Though he's not happy about the arrangement at first, his love of horses and his affection for a young filly that he plans to race make life bearable. He also finds romance with tomboyish 'Char' Bruce who shares his love for horses.

Vicki

Vicki
6.5/10
A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.

Apartment for Peggy

Apartment for Peggy
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/09/1948
  • Character: Peggy Taylor
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.

The Tattered Dress

The Tattered Dress
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/03/1957
  • Character: Diane Blane
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly...

Centennial Summer

Centennial Summer
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 10/07/1946
  • Character: Julia Rogers
In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters (Jeanne Crain and Linda Darnell) vie for the affections of a Frenchman (Cornel Wilde) who's come to town to prepare the French pavilion for the Centennial exposition.

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