Jeanne Carpenter | |
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Lantern slide with Jeanne Carpenter and Clara Kimball Young in What No Man Knows (1921)
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Born |
Theo-Alice Jeanne Carpenter February 1, 1916 Kansas City, Missouri, US |
Died | January 5, 1994 Oxnard, California, US |
(aged 77)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1919-1945 |
Spouse(s) | Robert Drysdale (1937 - 1947) Robert Alvin Grimes (July 13, 1949 - January 5, 1994) |
Jeanne Carpenter (February 1, 1916 - January 5, 1994) was an American child actress of the silent era.
Born Theo-Alice Jeanne Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri, Carpenter started her film career at the age of three. Her fame grew in the early-1920s as she made a series of successful appearances in films such as, Helen's Babies with Baby Peggy, and The Sign of the Rose. She had occasional adult roles through 1940s, then she retired from film business. Carpenter died of emphysema in Oxnard, California.