| 词条 | Jean Willes |
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| name = Jean Willes | image = Jean Willes 1960.JPG | caption = Willes in 1960 | birth_name = Jean Donahue | birth_date = {{birth date|1923|04|15}} | birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1989|01|03|1923|04|15}} | death_place = Van Nuys, California, U.S. | years_active = 1934–1972 | spouse = Gerard Cowhig (1951–1989; her death) | children = 1[1] }} Jean Willes (April 15, 1923 – January 3, 1989)[2] was an American film and television actress. She appeared in approximately 65 films in her 38-year career. CareerIn 1947, she changed her billing, Jean Donahue, to her married name, Jean Willes.[3] Willes is familiar to modern viewers for her roles in several Three Stooges short subjects, such as Monkey Businessmen, A Snitch in Time, and Gypped in the Penthouse. She was a favorite of director Edward Bernds, who cast her in many shorts and features. She was cast in roles ranging from an Air Force captain to prostitutes. She was one of the "four queens" pursuing Clark Gable in The King and Four Queens (1956). Later that year she appeared as Nurse Sally Withers in the original movie version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. She made the transition to television easily appearing in dozens of series in varied roles and genre such as westerns and anthology series, Crossroads, The Caliifornians, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, several episodes of Burns and Allen television program, in the 1956 television show "The Great Gildersleeve" as the schemeing girlfriend Eva Jane in the episode "One Too Many Secretaries", The Twilight Zone, Bonanza, Hazel, Trackdown, Meet McGraw, The Munsters, Perry Mason, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Bat Masterson, The Beverly Hillbillies, McHale's Navy, Tombstone Territory, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre and Kojak.[4] In 1958, in the episode "Queen of the Cimarron" of the syndicated western television series Frontier Doctor, starring Rex Allen, Willes portrayed Fancy Varden, the owner of the Golden Slipper Saloon who attempts to establish her own cattle empire with animals infected with anthrax. The disease soon spread from the cattle to the cowhands.[5] Willes portrayed Belle Starr opposite James Garner in a 1959 episode of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series Maverick entitled "Full House," in which Joel Grey played Billy the Kid. Willes played the character Ruth in the Wanted: Dead or Alive episode, "The Eager Man", Manila Jones in "The Montana Kid", and Meghan Francis in "The Kovack Affair", both times opposite star Steve McQueen. Willes played Amelia Monk in the 1967 episode, "Siege at Amelia's Kitchen", on the syndicated anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Robert Taylor. In the story line, Amelia must adjust to a teenaged stepson, Warren Monk (Dennis Oliveri), son of her husband, Titus Monk (George D. Wallace), particularly during an attack by rogue Indians on their ranch in the Arizona Territory.[6] PersonalWilles's second husband was NFL football player Gerard Cowhig. The couple had one son, Gerry. Selected filmography{{div col|colwidth=26em}}
References1. ^http://www.westernclippings.com/heavies/jeanwilles_charactersheavies.shtml 2. ^{{cite web|title=Jean W. Cowhig|url=http://www.americanancestors.org/PageDetail.aspx?recordId=73021552|work=Social Security Death Index|publisher=New England Historic Genealogical Society|accessdate=September 11, 2011}} 3. ^{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/76351/Jean-Willes/biography|work=The New York Times|title=Jean Willes profile|accessdate=March 6, 2015}} 4. ^[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0929795 Willes' profile], imdb.com; accessed March 6, 2015. 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583765|title="Queen of the Cimarron", September 26, 1958|publisher=imdb.com|accessdate=February 11, 2013}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0962297/|title=Siege at Amelia's Kitchen on Death Valley Days| publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate= September 19, 2018}} External links{{commons category}}
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