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Jean Brooks
Acting
23 Dec 1915
† 25 Nov 1963
Houston, Texas, USA
Biography
Fluent in Spanish, Jean Brooks began professionally by singing with Enric Madriguera and Orchestra in New York. She had a small role in the New York City-filmed The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935) and the second lead in a Broadway play, "Name Your Poison" (1938), with Lenore Ulric, all under her real name of Jeanne Kelly. She was signed by an independent film production company that had gone under by the time she got to Hollywood. She spent several years at Universal as a leading lady in "B" pictu...
Also Known As
Ruby M. Kelly, Jeanne Kelly, Ruby Matilda Kelly






















