JEAN PETERS HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS BORN 1926 OCTOBER 15 - 2000 OCTOBER 13
JEAN PETERS HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS BORN 1926 OCTOBER 15 - 2000 OCTOBER 13 Born October 15 , 1926 in Canton, Ohio, USA Died October 13 , 2000 in Carlsbad, California, USA (leukemia) Birth Name Elizabeth Jean Peters Height 5' 5½" (1.66 m) Mini Bio (1) Green-eyed beauty Jean Elizabeth Peters flashed across the screen as a bright star during her relatively brief tenure in Hollywood. After just seven years under contract to 20th Century-Fox (1947-54), she joined in the reclusive lifestyle of her eccentric billionaire husband, Howard Hughes , and all but vanished from public view. Jean was born in Canton, Ohio, in October of 1926. Her father died when she was ten years old. Her mother owned a tourist camp on the outskirts of town and there was enough money around to send Jean to college. She received the latter part of her tertiary education at Ohio State University and graduated with a diploma qualifying her...