Personal Info
Ruby M. Kelly
Jeanne Kelly
Ruby Matilda Kelly
Jean Brooks
Acting
Biography
Fluent in Spanish, Jean Brooks began professionally by singing with Enric Madriguera and Orchestra in New York. She had a small role in the New York City-filmed The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935) and the second lead in a Broadway play, "Name Your Poison" (1938), with Lenore Ulric, all under her real name of Jeanne Kelly. She was signed by an independent film production company that had gone under by the time she got to Hollywood. She spent several years at Universal as a leading lady in "B" pictures, including several Johnny Mack Brown westerns, but her option was dropped in late 1941. By this …
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Women in the Night
as Maya
The Bamboo Blonde
as Marsha
The Falcon's Alibi
as Baroness Lena
Two O'Clock Courage
as Barbara Borden
Youth Runs Wild
as Mary Hauser Coates
The Falcon in Hollywood
as Roxanna Miles
A Night of Adventure
as Julie Arden
The Seventh Victim
as Jacqueline Gibson
The Leopard Man
as Kiki Walker
The Falcon in Danger
as Iris Fairchild