Jean Carlin, born Harriet Jean Sollenberger (September 2, 1921-October 23, 1998) was an American film actress from Long Beach, California

Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

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Career

As a child she grew up devoting her time to the arts. She loved performing arts, including dancing, theater, and acting. After moving to Los Angeles, she quickly signed with a Hollywood agent. By the age of 23, and under the stage name "Carlin", she had appeared in her first major motion picture, Are These Our Parents?. For the next two years, she made over 11 major motion pictures, and was named "The Wild West Woman", often co starring with fellow cast mate Eddie Dean in westerns such as Six Gun Man and Caravan Trail. In 1946, after meeting her agent's brother, young Scandinavian ship Captain James Pearson, she moved from Hollywood, retired from acting, and settled down with Pearson. They went on to have three children. Eric, Nancy, and Ulrika. She was of Belgian and Swedish heritage. Her family was from Sollenberg in Huizingen, in the Belgian province of Brabant. Jean Carlin died in October, 1998.

Filmography

• Ghost of Hidden Valley
• Six Gun Man
• The Well-Groomed Bride
• Behind the Mask
• The Caravan Trail
• Wild West
• Are These Our Parents?

External links

• http://www.fandango.com/jeancarlin/filmography/p10951
• http://movies.nytimes.com/person/10951/Jean-Carlin
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137511/bio