Jean Hagen



























Jean Hagen

Jean Hagen 1955.jpg
Hagen in 1955

Born
Jean Shirley Verhagen


(1923-08-03)August 3, 1923

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Died August 29, 1977(1977-08-29) (aged 54)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Occupation Actress
Years active 1945–1977
Spouse(s) Tom Seidel (m. 1947–1965; divorced; 2 children)

Jean Hagen (born Jean Shirley Verhagen,[a] August 3, 1923 – August 29, 1977) was an American actress best known for her role as Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain (1952), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Hagen was also nominated three times for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Margaret Williams (1953–56) on the television series Make Room For Daddy.[2]




Contents






  • 1 Early life


  • 2 Career


    • 2.1 Radio


    • 2.2 Stage


    • 2.3 Film and television




  • 3 Personal life


  • 4 Death


  • 5 Honors


  • 6 Filmography


  • 7 Television appearances


  • 8 Radio appearances


  • 9 Notes


  • 10 References


  • 11 External links





Early life


Hagen was born on August 3, 1923, in Chicago, to Christian Verhagen, a Dutch immigrant, and his Chicago-born wife, Marie. The family moved to Elkhart, Indiana, when she was 12 and she subsequently graduated from Elkhart High School. She studied drama at Northwestern University, where she was a roommate of actress Patricia Neal. She graduated from Northwestern in 1945.[3] She also worked as a theater usherette.



Career




Hagen in Singin' in the Rain (1952)



Radio


Hagen began her show-business career in radio in the 1940s, performing in Light of the World, Hollywood Story, and other programs.[4] Using her maiden name (Jean Verhagen), she played Betty Webster on Those Websters.[5]



Stage


Hagen first appeared on Broadway in Swan Song. She also acted in Another Part of the Forest, Ghosts, Born Yesterday,[4][6] and The Traitor.[7]



Film and television


Her film debut was as a comical femme fatale in the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn 1949 classic Adam's Rib, directed by George Cukor. The Asphalt Jungle (1950) provided Hagen with her first starring role alongside Sterling Hayden. Hagen received excellent reviews playing "Doll" Conover, a woman who sticks by criminal Dix's side until the bitter end. She appeared, too, in the film noir Side Street (1950) playing a gangster's sincere but none-too-bright nightclub-singer girlfriend.


Hagen is best remembered for her comic performance in Singin' in the Rain as the vain and talentless silent movie star Lina Lamont. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for this memorable performance.




Thomas and Hagen in Make Room for Daddy, 1955


By 1953, she had joined the cast of the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy. For her portrayal as the first wife of Danny Thomas, Hagen received three Emmy Award nominations, but after three seasons, she grew dissatisfied with the role and left the series. Thomas, who also produced the show, reportedly did not appreciate Hagen's departing the successful series, and her character was killed off rather than recast.[citation needed] This was the first TV character to be killed off in a family sitcom.[citation needed]Marjorie Lord was cast a year later as Danny's second wife and played opposite Thomas successfully for the remainder of the series.


In 1957 Hagen co-starred in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents titled "Enough Rope for Two", portraying a woman who accompanies two thieves trying to retrieve stolen money from a desert mine shaft. She then appeared as Elizabeth in the 1960 episode "Once Upon a Knight" on CBS's anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson; the following year, she guest-starred on The Andy Griffith Show in the episode "Andy and the Woman Speeder".


Although she made frequent guest appearances in various television series, Hagen was unable to successfully resume her film career in starring roles. After appearing with Fred MacMurray in the Disney comedy The Shaggy Dog (1959), Hagen for the remainder of her career played supporting roles, such as Marguerite LeHand, personal secretary to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello (1960), and the friend of Bette Davis in Dead Ringer (1964). In the 1960s, Hagen's health began to decline and she spent many years hospitalized or under medical care. Much later, in 1976, she made a comeback of sorts playing character roles in episodes of the television series Starsky and Hutch and The Streets of San Francisco. She, however, made her final acting appearance the next year in the television movie Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn.



Personal life


Jean Hagen married actor Tom Seidel (who originated the role of Dr. Sanderson in the play Harvey), on June 12, 1947, in Brentwood. The couple and had two children, Christine Patricia Seidel (b. 1950) and Aric Phillip Seidel (1952–2012). According to Lorraine LoBianco's authoritative biography, Seidel, in his attempt to stop his wife from drinking, divorced her and gained custody of the children. It did not work. Hagen's alcoholism only worsened, finally becoming so severe by 1968 that she was hospitalized and lapsed into a coma at UCLA Medical Center. She managed to survive the ordeal, and her daughter Christine said that after she emerged from the coma, Hagen never drank again. Unfortunately, another health problem arose: throat cancer. Patricia Neal wrote in her autobiography that Hagen went to Germany "'for laetrile, a supposed cure unavailable in the United States. But she was bubbly and bright and so much the way I remembered her from the old days.'"[8]



Death


Hagen died at age 54 of esophageal cancer on August 29, 1977, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital,[4] and was buried in Chapel of the Pines Crematory.



Honors


Hagen was nominated for a 1956 Emmy Award in the "Best actress (continuing performance)" category.[9] She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1502 Vine Street for her contributions to television.



Filmography

































































































































Title
Year
Role
Notes

Adam's Rib
1949
Beryl Caighn


Ambush
1950
Martha Conovan


Side Street
1950
Hariette Sinton


The Asphalt Jungle
1950
"Doll" Conovan


A Life of Her Own
1950
Maggie Collins


Night Into Morning
1951
Girl Next Door


No Questions Asked
1951
Joan Brensen


Shadow in the Sky
1952
Stella Murphy


Singin' in the Rain
1952
Lina Lamont


Carbine Williams
1952
Maggie Williams


Arena
1953
Meg Hutchins


Latin Lovers
1953
Anne Kellwood


Half a Hero
1953
Martha Dobson


The Big Knife
1955
Connie Bliss


Spring Reunion
1957
Barna Forrest


The Shaggy Dog
1959
Freeda Daniels


Sunrise at Campobello
1960

Marguerite "Missy" LeHand


Panic in Year Zero
1962
Ann Baldwin


Dead Ringer
1964
Dede Marshall


Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
1977
Landlady
TV movie, (final film role)


Television appearances



























Television series
Role
Year
Notes

Make Room for Daddy
Margaret Williams
117 (3 seasons) 1953–1956
later called The Danny Thomas Show; first family sitcom character to be killed off

The Andy Griffith Show
Elizabeth Crowley
Season 2 episode 3, Oct. 16, 1961
"Andy and the Woman Speeder "

The Streets of San Francisco
Landlady
Season 4 episode 19, Nov. 1976
"Judgement Day"


Radio appearances













Year Program Episode/source
1952 Stars in the Air
The Yearling[10]


Notes





  1. ^ A variation on the spelling was ver Hagen[1]




References





  1. ^ Hess, Earl J.; Dabholkar, Pratibha A. (2009). Singin' in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-7006-1656-5..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Obituary Variety, September 7, 1977, p. 111.


  3. ^ "Northwestern Co-Eds Train For The Stage; Inspired By Achievements Of Some Grads". Lubbock Evening Journal. January 12, 1950. p. 11. Retrieved June 5, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
    open access publication – free to read



  4. ^ abc "Jean Hagen, former actress, dies at 54". The Lowell Sun. August 31, 1977. p. 43. Retrieved June 5, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
    open access publication – free to read



  5. ^ "'Those Websters,' American Family Heard Fridays at 9:30 pm on WHP". Harrisburg Telegraph. March 3, 1945. p. 15. Retrieved June 5, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
    open access publication – free to read



  6. ^ "Jean Hagen Is Delighted To Get Bad Woman Role". Corsicana Daily Sun. May 6, 1955. p. 9. Retrieved June 5, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
    open access publication – free to read



  7. ^ "Broadway Openings: The Traitor". Billboard. April 9, 1949. p. 57. Retrieved 6 June 2015.


  8. ^ "Jean Hagen Profile", Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Turner Broadcasting System, New York, N.Y. Retrieved November 2, 2017.


  9. ^ "'Emmy' Award Nominations Announced" (PDF). Broadcasting. February 27, 1956. p. 93. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
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  10. ^ Kirby, Walter (February 10, 1952). "Better Radio Programs for the Week". The Decatur Daily Review. p. 38. Retrieved June 2, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
    open access publication – free to read





External links








  • Jean Hagen on IMDb


  • Jean Hagen at the Internet Broadway Database Edit this at Wikidata


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