Mona Freeman
Mona Freeman | |
|---|---|
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | |
| Died | May 23, 2014 (aged 87) , U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, painter |
| Years active | 1944–1972 |
| Spouses | Pat Nerney
(m. 1945; div. 1952)H. Jack Ellis
(m. 1961; died 1992) |
| Children | 1 |
Monica Elizabeth "Mona" Freeman (June 9, 1926 – May 23, 2014) was an American actress and painter.[1]
Early years
Freeman was born in
Career
Paramount Pictures signed Freeman to a contract after she moved to Hollywood.[4] She eventually signed a movie contract with Howard Hughes.[6]
Her contract was later sold to Paramount Pictures. Her first film appearance was in the 1944 film Till We Meet Again.[2] She became a popular teenage movie star. After a series of roles as a pretty, naive teenager, she complained of being typecast.[2]
As an adult, Freeman's career slowed and she appeared in mostly
Freeman's appearances in films ended in the 1950s, but she continued to work in television. Among her appearances were seven guest roles on
Freeman was a portrait painter and concentrated on painting after 1961. Her best-known portrait is that of businesswoman Mary See, founder of See's Candies.[2]
Personal life and death
Freeman married Pat Nerney, a car dealer, in Los Angeles in 1945.[2][7] The couple had one daughter, Mona.[2] They divorced in 1952.[7] In 1961, she married H. Jack Ellis,[2] a businessman from Los Angeles.[4]
Freeman died on May 23, 2014, at the age of 87 after a long illness, at her
Partial filmography
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- Till We Meet Again (1944) - Elise
- National Velvet (1944) - Schoolgirl (uncredited)
- Here Come the Waves (1944) - Fainting Girl (uncredited)
- Together Again (1944) - Diana Crandall
- Roughly Speaking (1945) - Barbara, ages 15–20
- Junior Miss (1945) - Lois Graves
- Danger Signal (1945) - Anne Fenchurch
- Our Hearts Were Growing Up (1946) - Girl (uncredited)
- Black Beauty (1946) - Anne Wendon
- That Brennan Girl (1946) - Ziggy Brennan
- Dear Ruth (1947) - Miriam Wilkins
- Mother Wore Tights (1947) - Iris
- Variety Girl (1947) - Mona Freeman
- Isn't It Romantic? (1948) - Susie Cameron
- Streets of Laredo (1949) - Rannie Carter
- The Heiress (1949) - Marian Almond
- Dear Wife (1949) - Miriam Wilkins
- I Was a Shoplifter (1950) - Faye Burton
- Copper Canyon (1950) - Caroline Desmond
- Branded (1950) - Ruth Lavery
- Dear Brat (1951) - Miriam Wilkins
- Darling, How Could You! (1951) - Amy
- The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) - Spectator (uncredited)
- Flesh and Fury (1952) - Ann Hollis
- Jumping Jacks (1952) - Betsy Carter
- Thunderbirds (1952) - Lt. Ellen Henderson
- Angel Face (1953) - Mary Wilton
- Battle Cry (1955) - Kathy - later Mrs. Danny Forrester
- Before I Wake (1955) - April Haddon
- The Road to Denver (1955) - Elizabeth Sutton
- Dial 999 (1955) - Terry Moffat Carradine
- Huk! (1956) - Cindy Rogers
- Hold Back the Night (1956) - Anne Franklin McKenzie
- Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957) - Ann Bradley
- The World Was His Jury (1958) - Robin Carson
Partial television credits
- Wanted: Dead or Alive(2 episodes)
- "The Fourth Headstone" (1958) - Jackie Harris
- "Breakout" (1959) - Margaret Dunn
- Wagon Train
- "The Monty Britton Story" (1958) - Betty Britton
- The Red Skelton Hour (2 episodes)
- "San Fernando's Singing Sensation" (1958) - Guest
- "Freddie Gets a Job" (1959) - Kathy
- Pursuit
- "Calculated Risk" (1958) - Nina Hodges
- Playhouse 90 (3 episodes)
- "Sizeman and Son" (1956) - Marie Sizeman
- "Three Men on a Horse" (1957) - Audrey Trowbridge
- "The Long March" (1958) - Betsy
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson
- "The Pledge" (1959) - Sandra McAllen
- Maverick (2 episodes)
- "The Cats Of Paradise" (1959) - Modesty Blaine
- "The Cruise of the Cynthia B" (1960) - Modesty Blaine
- Johnny Ringo
- "Mrs. Ringo" (1960) - Marilyn Barber
- United States Steel Hour
- "The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon" (1961)
- Perry Mason (3 episodes)
- "The Case of the Lurid Letter" (1962) - Jane Wardman
- "The Case of the Illicit Illusion" (1964) - Rosanne Ambrose
- "The Case of the 12th Wildcat" (1965) - Ellen Payne
References
- ISBN 9780517548554. Retrieved August 24, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Chawkins, Steve (June 6, 2014). "Film star Mona Freeman, typecast as teen in '40s and '50s, dies at 87". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
- Newspapers.com.
- ^ ISBN 9780786476664. Retrieved July 29, 2017.
- ^ Frost, Natasha (October 4, 2017). "The Miss Subways Pageant Charted the Highs and Lows of 20th-Century Feminism in New York:From a 1940s beauty queen to a 2017 performance artist". Retrieved October 10, 2017.
- ^ Ilnytzky, Ula (October 12, 2012). "Decades of Miss Subways smiled on NYC straphangers". Associated Press. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved June 10, 2014.
- ^ a b "Mona Freeman". Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Gale. 2007. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved June 10, 2014.
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