Cast: Jeanne Crain

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jeanne Crain. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


A Letter to Three Wives

1949 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Ann Sothern · Linda Darnell · Paul Douglas

Plot Three wives in spats with their husbands receive a note from a former friend that she has run off with one of their spouses. Trapped on a boat for a...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

Leave Her to Heaven

1945 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Gene Tierney · Cornel Wilde · Jeanne Crain · Vincent Price

Plot Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) meets and falls desperately in love with Richard Harland (Cornell Wilde), an author who resembles her late father. Ellen is pathologically possessive of Richard, jealous of...

7.6

3K votes

7.6

3K votes

Man Without a Star

1955 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Kirk Douglas · Jeanne Crain · Claire Trevor · Richard Boone

Plot Dempsey Rae, a cowboy with no clear aim in life, winds up working on a spread with a hard lady owner just arrived from the East.

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

O. Henry's Full House

1952 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway · Howard Hawks · Henry King · Henry Koster

Cast Fred Allen · Anne Baxter · Jeanne Crain · Farley Granger

Plot This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop...

6.8

477 votes

6.8

477 votes

People Will Talk

1951 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Cary Grant · Jeanne Crain · Finlay Currie · Hume Cronyn

Plot 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...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Fastest Gun Alive

1956 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Russell Rouse

Cast Glenn Ford · Jeanne Crain · Broderick Crawford · Russ Tamblyn

Plot 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...

6.7

492 votes

6.7

492 votes

Pinky

1949 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Jeanne Crain · Ethel Barrymore · Ethel Waters · William Lundigan

Plot 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"...

6.7

362 votes

6.7

362 votes

Margie

1946 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

6.6

38 votes

6.6

38 votes

The Fan

1949 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Jeanne Crain · Madeleine Carroll · George Sanders · Richard Greene

Plot Lord Windermere appears to all -including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his...

6.6

308 votes

6.6

308 votes

Dangerous Crossing

1953 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Joseph M. Newman

Cast Jeanne Crain · Michael Rennie · Max Showalter · Carl Betz

Plot 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...

6.5

115 votes

6.5

115 votes

The Tattered Dress

1957 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Jeff Chandler · Jeanne Crain · Jack Carson · Gail Russell

Plot After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen (Elaine Stewart) comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; she claims being sexually...

6.4

45 votes

6.4

45 votes

The Gang's All Here

1943 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Alice Faye · Carmen Miranda · Phil Baker · Benny Goodman

Plot Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Eadie Allen overnight to such effect that she's starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific....

6.3

95 votes

6.3

95 votes

Apartment for Peggy

1948 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction George Seaton

Cast Jeanne Crain · William Holden · Edmund Gwenn · Gene Lockhart

Plot 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...

6.3

40 votes

6.3

40 votes

Vicki

1953 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Harry Horner

Cast Jeanne Crain · Jean Peters · Richard Boone · Elliott Reid

Plot The untimely murder of a New York glamor-girl sparks an investigation with an emotionally driven detective at the helm.

6.3

34 votes

6.3

34 votes

State Fair

1945 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Jeanne Crain · Dana Andrews · Dick Haymes · Vivian Blaine

Plot Farm family Frake, with discontented daughter Margy, head for the Iowa State Fair. On the first day, both Margy and brother Wayne meet attractive new flames; so does father's prize...

6.3

88 votes

6.3

88 votes

The Model and the Marriage Broker

1951 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Jeanne Crain · Scott Brady · Thelma Ritter · Zero Mostel

Plot Marriage broker Mae Swasey, who somewhat cynically arranges her loser clients' affairs, meets model Kitty Bennett and can't resist meddling in her life, by disentangling her from a married man...

6.2

39 votes

6.2

39 votes

Cheaper by the Dozen

1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Clifton Webb · Jeanne Crain · Myrna Loy · Betty Lynn

Plot "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...

5.9

222 votes

5.9

222 votes

Home in Indiana

1944 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Walter Brennan · Charlotte Greenwood · Ward Bond · Charles Dingle

Plot A lad with a penchant for trouble is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in Indiana. Though he's not happy about the arrangement at first, his love of...

5.9

42 votes

5.9

42 votes

Centennial Summer

1946 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Jeanne Crain · Cornel Wilde · Linda Darnell · William Eythe

Plot 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...

5.8

26 votes

5.8

26 votes

Belles on Their Toes

1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Henry Levin

Cast Jeanne Crain · Myrna Loy · Debra Paget · Jeffrey Hunter

Plot The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.

5.8

48 votes

5.8

48 votes