Jean Muir (actress)
Jean Muir Fullarton ( born February 13, 1911 in Suffern, New York, † July 23, 1996 in Mesa, Arizona ) was an American actress.
Life and career
1930, the Jean Muir first came on Broadway in her hometown of New York. Three years later, she signed a contract with Warner Brothers. However, the tall blonde was never a major actress in Hollywood, though she appeared in leading roles, but mostly in smaller productions. One of the few exceptions made it Max Reinhardt's film version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which she played the role of Helena. Since it was extremely impressed by the spectacle of the debutante Olivia de Havilland in the same film, Muir lost her starring role in Captain Blood at de Havilland. How many other actresses also, you pulled them also in 1939 for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind into consideration. That same year, Muir was one of the many actresses who were traded The Miracle by Max Reinhardt for the lead role in the planned film adaptation of Karl Gustav Vollmoeller piece. The project was some time later completely stopped.
1938 Muir went back to the theater for a few years and toured with, among others, the Group Theatre in Clifford Odets' Golden Boy. Dissatisfied by the career paths, her last film was in Hollywood Liebesleid from the year 1943. According to this film, she went back to Broadway. During the McCarthy era Jean Muir in 1950 was put on the black list because of anbeblicher communist sympathies, which cost her a recurring role in a television series, among others. Muir denied the allegations always. Mid-1950 - the year she became an alcoholic, but she übewandt their dependence .. The actress returned to the stage and had sporadic television appearances. Jean Muir ended her active acting career in the mid -1960s and was from then until her retirement in 1976 drama teacher at Stephens College in Columbia.
In 1960, the divorce from her husband, the New York lawyer and television producer Henry Jaffe, with whom she had three children. Jean Muir was 85 years old. It has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, height 6280 Hollywood Boulevard.