Jean Hagen was an Oscar nominated actress who struggled with alcoholism
She was born Jean Shirley Verhagen on August 3, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois. Her household moved to Elkhart, Indiana when she was twelve. Jean dreamed of turning into an actress from a younger age. In an interview she stated “I knew from the time I noticed my first film that I wished to be an actress.” After highschool she determined to review appearing at Northwestern College. She started her profession engaged on the radio. Jean landed components in a number of Broadway reveals together with Swan Track and Born Yesterday. On June 12, 1947 she married actor Tom Siedel. She made her movie debut within the 1949 comedy Adam’s Rib starring Katharine Hepburn. Then she had roles in The Asphalt Jungle, A Life Of Her Personal, and No Questions Requested. Jean gave delivery to a daughter named Christine on August 26, 1950. She was solid as Lina Lamont, a ditzy blonde with an annoying voice, within the 1952 musical Singing In The Rain. Throughout filming she found she was pregnant and her son Aric was born in August of 1952. Her efficiency in Singin In The Rain received rave critiques and she or he was nominated for an Academy Award for Finest Supporting actress.
In 1953 she started enjoying the position Margaret Williams, the spouse on The Danny Thomas Present. Though the present was a success she left after three seasons as a result of she did not like her storylines. Sadly by the late Fifties she had developed a critical ingesting drawback which started to have an effect on her well being. Jean costarred with Fred MacMurray within the comedy The Shaggy Canine and with Bette Davis in Useless Ringer. She additionally made visitor appearances on the tv reveals Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Wagon Prepare. Her husband divorced her in 1965 resulting from her alcoholism and was given custody of each their kids. This solely made her ingesting worse and in 1968 she nearly died after lapsing right into a coma. When she recovered she gave up ingesting fully. Her remaining appearing position was within the 1977 tv movie Alexander: The Different Facet Of Daybreak. Sadly she was recognized with throat most cancers. Jean died from the illness on August 29, 1977 on the age of fifty-four. She was cremated and her ashes are buried at Chapel Of The Pines in Los Angeles, California.
