JEAN PETERS AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN 1926 OCTOBER 15
JEAN PETERS AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN 1926 OCTOBER 15 Elizabeth Jean Peters (October 15, 1926 – October 13, 2000) was an American actress, known as a star of 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and as the second wife of Howard Hughes. Although possibly best remembered for her siren role in Pickup on South Street (1953), Peters was known for her resistance to being turned into a sex symbol. She preferred to play unglamorous, down-to-earth women. [1] Early life[edit] Miss Ohio State Pageant 1945 Born Elizabeth Jean Peters in 1926 in East Canton, Ohio, she was the daughter of Elizabeth and Gerald Peters, a laundry manager. Raised on a small farm in East Canton, Peters attended East Canton High School. She was raised as a Methodist.[2] She went to college at the University of Michigan and later the Ohio State University, where she studied to become a teacher and majored in literature. While study...