Jean Heather

Actor · 1921 – 1995 · Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Jean Heather (February 21, 1921 – October 29, 1995) was an American actress who appeared in eight feature films during the 1940s. She acted in two Oscar-nominated movies in 1944: the crime drama Double Indemnity, in which she played Lola Dietrichson, a young woman convinced that her stepmother Phyllis (Barbara Stanwyck) is responsible for the murder of Lola's father, and Going My Way, where she played a runaway teenager assisted by Father O'Malley (Bing Crosby). Heather's acting career was cut short by an automobile accident in December 1947, in which she was thrown from her car onto the pavement and suffered severe facial lacerations.

Movies8

Movie8.1
CrimeThriller
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
Double Indemnity
1944 · 2.1K votes
Movie6.7
DramaComedy
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
Going My Way
1944 · 199 votes
Movie7.5
Comedy
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944 · 4 votes
Movie7.3
Western
A rancher tries to convince an Indian tribe to relocate so their land can be used to provide water for Kansas City.
The Last Round-up
1947 · 3 votes
Movie5.7
ComedyRomance
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.
The Well Groomed Bride
1946 · 3 votes
Movie6.8
ComedyMystery
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete also believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.
Murder, He Says
1945 · 35 votes
Movie7.0
MusicComedy
This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began.
The National Barn Dance
1944 · 1 votes
Movie9.0
AdventureWestern
Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...
Red Stallion In The Rockies
1949 · 1 votes