When Jean Engstrom was 16, the family moved to Southern California and lived for a while with her maternal grandmother, and there she completed high school.
14 Facts About Jean Engstrom
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On February 14,1940, Flora Jean Engstrom Bovie married Richard Harold Moon in Baldwin Park, California.
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Jean Engstrom's body is buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego, California.
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Jean Engstrom originally wanted to become a singer, but a crushed breast plate suffered in an automobile accident affected her vocal cords and she turned to modeling.
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Jean Engstrom later moved to work in movies and in television and during this time studied with Francis Lederer's improvisation group.
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Jean Engstrom used the name Jean Engstrom professionally and during her career she appeared in over 50 plays, in at least eight movies, and in about 40 television programs before leaving acting.
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Jean Engstrom appeared as a party guest in the 1958 film The Party Crashers.
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Jean Engstrom's final movie appearance was a starring role in the 1965 Billy Graham-produced The Restless Ones in which she played Mrs Harris, the alcoholic mother of April, played by Kim Darby.
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Jean Engstrom began appearing in television in 1953 although her earliest TV appearances have not been confirmed.
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Jean Engstrom appeared in westerns, crime dramas, comedies, and contemporary dramas in which she often played mothers, but she played wives and widows, a school psychologist, a social secretary, and even a deputy sheriff and a psychotic killer.
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Jean Engstrom made multiple appearances on other shows, including three appearances on Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr and two appearances each on Peter Gunn starring Craig Stevens, an electrifying turn as a diner keeper turned cold blooded killer on Highway Patrol, two on Thriller starring Boris Karloff, and two on Hazel starring Shirley Booth.
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Jean Engstrom appeared as Lonny Chapman's wife in "Dead Man's Tale", series 3 episode 17 of One Step Beyond in 1961.
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Jean Engstrom's daughter Liana was an actress and appeared as Jena Jean Engstrom in at least 37 television episodes between 1960 and 1964.
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The second show listed is the January 1962 episode "To Sell Another Human Being" of ABC's The New Breed, starring Leslie Nielsen, in which mother Jean Engstrom played a wealthy woman who with her husband adopt a baby through an adoption mill.