1. Jean Willes appeared in approximately 65 films in her 38-year career.
10 Facts About Jean Willes
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Jean Willes is familiar to modern viewers for her roles in several Three Stooges short subjects, such as Monkey Businessmen as well as A Snitch in Time, Don't Throw That Knife and Gypped in the Penthouse.
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Jean Willes was a favorite of director Edward Bernds, who cast her in many shorts and features.
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Jean Willes played roles ranging from an Air Force captain to prostitutes.
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Jean Willes was one of the "four queens" pursuing Clark Gable in The King and Four Queens.
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Jean Willes made the transition to television, debuting in an episode of Boston Blackie.
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In 1958, in the episode "Queen of the Cimarron" of the syndicated western television series Frontier Doctor, starring Rex Allen, Jean Willes portrayed Fancy Varden, the owner of the Golden Slipper Saloon who attempts to establish her own cattle empire with animals infected with anthrax.
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Jean Willes played Amelia Monk in the 1967 episode, "Siege at Amelia's Kitchen", on the syndicated anthology series, Death Valley Days hosted by Robert Taylor.
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Jean Willes died of liver cancer in Van Nuys, California on January 3,1989.
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Jean Willes is buried in San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, California.