Jean Hagen

Jean Hagen

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1923-08-03
Deathday: 1977-08-29 (54 years old)

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Jean Hagen (born Jean Shirley Verhagen, August 3, 1923 – August 29, 1977) was an American actress best known for her role as Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain (1952), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Hagen was also nominated three times for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Margaret Williams (1953–56) on the television series Make Room For Daddy.


Her film debut was as a comical femme fatale in the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn 1949 classic Adam's Rib, directed by George Cukor. The Asphalt Jungle (1950) provided Hagen with her first starring role alongside Sterling Hayden. Hagen received excellent reviews playing "Doll" Conover, a woman who sticks by criminal Dix's side until the bitter end. She appeared too in the film noir Side Street (1950) playing a gangster's sincere but none-too-bright nightclub-singer girlfriend.


Hagen is best remembered for her comic performance in Singin' in the Rain as the vain and talentless silent movie star Lina Lamont. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for this memorable performance.


By 1953, she had joined the cast of the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy. For her portrayal as the first wife of Danny Thomas, Hagen received three Emmy Award nominations, but after three seasons, she grew dissatisfied with the role and left the series. Thomas, who also produced the show, reportedly did not appreciate Hagen's departing the successful series, and her character was killed off rather than recast. This was the first TV character to be killed off in a family sitcom. Marjorie Lord was cast a year later as Danny's second wife and played opposite Thomas successfully for the remainder of the series.


In 1957 Hagen co-starred in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents titled "Enough Rope for Two", portraying a woman who accompanies two thieves trying to retrieve stolen money from a desert mine shaft. She then appeared as Elizabeth in the 1960 episode "Once Upon a Knight" on CBS's anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson; and the following year she guest-starred on The Andy Griffith Show in the episode "Andy and the Woman Speeder".


Although she made frequent guest appearances in various television series, Hagen was unable to successfully resume her film career in starring roles. After appearing with Fred MacMurray in the Disney comedy The Shaggy Dog (1959), Hagen for the remainder of her career played supporting roles, such as Marguerite LeHand, personal secretary to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello (1960), and the friend of Bette Davis in Dead Ringer (1964). In the 1960s, Hagen's health began to decline and she spent many years hospitalized or under medical care. Much later, in 1976, she made a comeback of sorts playing character roles in episodes of the television series Starsky and Hutch and The Streets of San Francisco. She, however, made her final acting appearance the next year in the television movie Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn.

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Filmography

all 39

Movies 22

TV Shows 17

self 2

Self (archive footage)
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer (2002)

Movie
Landlady
Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (1977)

Movie
Belle Kates
Starsky & Hutch

Starsky & Hutch (1975)

TV
10
Ms. Unger
The Streets of San Francisco

The Streets of San Francisco (1972)

TV
6.86
Dede Marshall
Dead Ringer

Dead Ringer (1964)

Movie
Ann Baldwin
Panic in Year Zero!

Panic in Year Zero! (1962)

Movie
6
Ben Casey

Ben Casey (1961)

TV
4.75
Nurse Mary Ogilvy
Dr. Kildare

Dr. Kildare (1961)

TV
6
Lilly de Milo
Stagecoach West

Stagecoach West (1960)

TV
Elizabeth Crowley
The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show (1960)

TV
6
Missy Le Hand
Sunrise at Campobello

Sunrise at Campobello (1960)

Movie
Rhoda
The Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1960)

Movie
Alice Streger
The Detectives

The Detectives (1959)

TV
Elizabeth
The DuPont Show with June Allyson

The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959)

TV
Freeda Daniels
The Shaggy Dog

The Shaggy Dog (1959)

Movie
5.2
Hilda Darrow / Mildred Corn / Nora Anderson
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958)

TV
Sarah Proctor / Maidie Brant
Wagon Train

Wagon Train (1957)

TV
8
Barna Forrest
Spring Reunion

Spring Reunion (1957)

Movie
Anne Madden
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)

TV
Connie Bliss
The Big Knife

The Big Knife (1955)

Movie
Madge Griffin
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

TV
4.75
Eleanor Gehrig
Climax!

Climax! (1954)

TV
Self
The Jimmy Durante Show

The Jimmy Durante Show (1954)

TV
Margaret Williams / Elizabeth Barrett (dream sequence)
The Danny Thomas Show

The Danny Thomas Show (1953)

TV
2
Anne Kellwood
Latin Lovers

Latin Lovers (1953)

Movie
Meg Hutchins
Arena

Arena (1953)

Movie
Martha Dobson
Half a Hero

Half a Hero (1953)

Movie
Paula Farrel
General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater (1953)

TV
Nona Carson
The Ford Television Theatre

The Ford Television Theatre (1952)

TV
Stella Murphy
Shadow in the Sky

Shadow in the Sky (1952)

Movie
Maggie Williams
Carbine Williams

Carbine Williams (1952)

Movie
Lina Lamont
Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Movie
6
Joan Brenson
No Questions Asked

No Questions Asked (1951)

Movie
Girl Next Door
Night Into Morning

Night Into Morning (1951)

Movie
Maggie Collins
A Life of Her Own

A Life of Her Own (1950)

Movie
Doll Conovan
The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Movie
3.71
Harriette Sinton
Side Street

Side Street (1950)

Movie
Martha Conovan
Ambush

Ambush (1950)

Movie
Beryl Caighn
Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib (1949)

Movie
6.13

Ratings

Average 6.32
Based on 413 Thousand movie and tv ratings over time
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Known For
Acting

Gender
Female

Birthday
1923-08-03

Deathday
1977-08-29 (54 years old)

Birth Place
Chicago, United States of America

Citizenships
United States of America

Also Known As
Jean Shirley Verhagen, Jean Verhagen

Awards
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame


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