| Full Name | Eleanor Parker |
| Net Worth | $14 Million |
| Date Of Birth | June 26, 1922 |
| Died | December 9, 2013, Palm Springs, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Cedarville, Ohio, United States |
| Height | 1.68 m |
| Occupation | Actress, Singer |
| Profession | Actor, Singer |
| Education | Shaw High School |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Raymond Hirsch, Paul Clemens, Bert E. Friedlob, Fred Losee |
| Children | Paul Clemens, Richard Parker Friedlob, Susan Eleanor Friedlob, Sharon Anne Friedlob |
| Parents | Lola Isett, Lester Day Parker |
| Nicknames | Eleanor Jean Parker, Eleanor Parker, Parker, Eleanor, Parker, Eleanor Jean |
| IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0662223 |
| Awards | Volpi Cup for Best Actress |
| Nominations | Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role |
| Movies | The Sound of Music, Caged, Interrupted Melody, Detective Story, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Naked Jungle, Scaramouche, Escape from Fort Bravo, Home from the Hill, A Hole in the Head, Pride of the Marines, The King and Four Queens, The Voice of the Turtle, Valley of the Kings, Many Rivers to Cro... |
| TV Shows | Bracken's World, Fantasy Island, The Eleventh Hour, The Sound of Music, Vanished |
| Star Sign | Cancer |
| # | Fact |
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| 1 | Died on her Detective Story (1951) co-star Kirk Douglas' 97th birthday. |
| 2 | Was friends with Andrea King, Lana Turner, and Jane Greer. |
| 3 | Her favorite actress was Carole Lombard. |
| 4 | Upon her death, she was promptly cremated and her ashes were scattered at sea in the Pacific Ocean per her last wishes. |
| 5 | Was a lifelong Democrat. |
| 6 | Her wedding to Paul Clemens was held at the famous Hollywood Methodist Church on Thanksgiving Day 1954. |
| 7 | Along with Olivia de Havilland, she was considered for the female lead in The Country Girl (1954). |
| 8 | On March 6, 1951, Parker had to abandon her sickbed and flee with her two small children when a fire broke out in her Beverly Hills home. She was in bed with the flu when she was aroused by the smell of smoke. She took her daughters, Susan, 3, and Sharon, 1, and left the house. The blaze destroyed a staircase and a wall with damages estimating at $500. |
| 9 | In May 1950, she was chosen as "Mother of the Year" by American florists. |
| 10 | Got the female lead in The Very Thought of You (1944) after Ida Lupino withdrew her interest. |
| 11 | Turned down the female lead in Stallion Road (1947). |
| 12 | In April 1946, she was chosen as the "National Buddy Poppy Girl" by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. |
| 13 | During the 1940s, she was the most popular actress for columnists to write about and was the favorite subject of such famed movie star commenter's as Dorothy Kilgallen, Hedda Hopper, Shelia Graham, and Louella Parsons. |
| 14 | From 2003 until her death, she lived a quiet retirement in Palm Springs, California. |
| 15 | She was honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month for June 2013. |
| 16 | Was required to have her blonde hair buzzed off to the scalp for her role as a female convict in Caged (1950). |
| 17 | In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by Rosetta Calavetta. She was occasionally dubbed by Dhia Cristiani; Lidia Simoneschi; Rina Morelli; and Andreina Pagnani, most notably in The Sound of Music (1965). |
| 18 | Broke the champagne bottle on the nose on the locomotive, launching the "California Zephyr" a well-known passenger train on its inaugural eastbound run from San Francisco to Chicago at the Western Pacific Depot (San Francisco) on March 19, 1949. |
| 19 | Probably best known as the baroness in The Sound of Music (1965). |
| 20 | Grandmother of Chase Parker. |
| 21 | Discovered at age 18 by a Warner Bros. talent agent while merely sitting in the audience of the Pasadena Playhouse, and after just one semester of student training there. |
| 22 | Mother of Susan Eleanor Friedlob (born March 7, 1948), Sharon Anne Friedlob (born April 18, 1950), Richard Parker Friedlob (born October 8, 1952) and Paul Clemens (born January 7, 1958, as Paul Day Clemens). All were born in Los Angeles County, California. |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Dead on the Money | 1991 | TV Movie | Catherine Blake |
| Murder, She Wrote | 1986 | TV Series | Maggie Tarrow |
| Finder of Lost Loves | 1984 | TV Series | Nora Spencer |
| Hotel | 1983 | TV Series | Leslie DeVere |
| Fantasy Island | 1977-1983 | TV Series | Nurse Alice Green / Peggy Atwood / Eunice Hollander Baines |
| The Love Boat | 1979-1982 | TV Series | Alicia Fairchild Bradbury / Rosie Strickland |
| Madame X | 1981 | TV Movie | Katherine Richardson |
| Vega$ | 1980 | TV Series | Laurie Bishop |
| Once Upon a Spy | 1980 | TV Movie | The Lady |
| She's Dressed to Kill | 1979 | TV Movie | Regine Danton |
| Sunburn | 1979 | | Mrs. Thoren |
| The Bastard | 1978 | TV Movie | Lady Amberly |
| Hawaii Five-O | 1978 | TV Series | Mrs. Constance Kincaid |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | 1975 | TV Movie | Christine Drayton |
| The Great American Beauty Contest | 1973 | TV Movie | Peggy Lowery |
| Home for the Holidays | 1972 | TV Movie | Alex Morgan |
| Circle of Fear | 1972 | TV Series | Paula Burgess |
| Vanished | 1971 | TV Movie | Sue Greer |
| Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring | 1971 | TV Movie | Claire Miller |
| Bracken's World | 1969-1970 | TV Series | Sylvia Caldwell |
| Hans Brinker | 1969 | TV Movie | Dame Brinker |
| Eye of the Cat | 1969 | | Aunt Danny |
| How to Steal the World | 1968 | | Margitta Kingsley |
| The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | 1968 | TV Series | Margitta Kingsley |
| The Tiger and the Pussycat | 1967 | | Esperia Vincenzini |
| Warning Shot | 1967 | | Mrs. Doris Ruston |
| See You in Hell, Darling | 1966 | | Deborah Kelly Rojack |
| The Oscar | 1966 | | Sophie Cantaro |
| Convoy | 1965 | TV Series | Kate Fowler |
| The Sound of Music | 1965 | | The Baroness |
| Panic Button | 1964 | | Louise Harris |
| Kraft Suspense Theatre | 1964 | TV Series | Dorian Smith |
| Breaking Point | 1964 | TV Series | |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | 1963 | TV Series | Fern Selman |
| The Eleventh Hour | 1963 | TV Series | Connie Folsom |
| Checkmate | 1962 | TV Series | Marion Bannion / Gussie Hill |
| Return to Peyton Place | 1961 | | Connie Rossi |
| Madison Avenue | 1961 | | Anne Tremaine |
| Buick-Electra Playhouse | 1960 | TV Series | Sister Cecilia |
| The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio | 1960 | TV Movie | Sister Cecelia |
| Home from the Hill | 1960 | | Hannah Hunnicutt |
| A Hole in the Head | 1959 | | Eloise Rogers |
| The Seventh Sin | 1957 | | Carol Carwin |
| Lizzie | 1957 | | Elizabeth / Lizzie / Beth Richmond |
| The King and Four Queens | 1956 | | Sabina McDade |
| The Man with the Golden Arm | 1955 | | Zosh Machine |
| Interrupted Melody | 1955 | | Marjorie Lawrence |
| Many Rivers to Cross | 1955 | | Mary Stuart Cherne |
| Valley of the Kings | 1954 | | Ann Barclay Mercedes |
| The Naked Jungle | 1954 | | Joanna Leiningen |
| Escape from Fort Bravo | 1953 | | Carla Forester |
| Above and Beyond | 1952 | | Lucey Tibbets |
| Scaramouche | 1952 | | Lenore |
| Detective Story | 1951 | | Mary McLeod |
| A Millionaire for Christy | 1951 | | Christabel 'Christy' Sloane |
| Valentino | 1951 | | Joan Carlisle / Sarah Gray |
| Three Secrets | 1950 | | Susan Adele Connors Chase |
| Caged | 1950 | | Marie Allen |
| Chain Lightning | 1950 | | Joan "Jo" Holloway |
| It's a Great Feeling | 1949 | | Eleanor Parker (uncredited) |
| The Woman in White | 1948 | | Laura Fairlie Ann Catherick |
| The Voice of the Turtle | 1947 | | Sally Middleton |
| Always Together | 1947 | | Eleanor Parker (uncredited) |
| Escape Me Never | 1947 | | Fenella MacLean |
| Never Say Goodbye | 1946 | | Ellen Gayley |
| Of Human Bondage | 1946 | | Mildred Rogers |
| Pride of the Marines | 1945 | | Ruth Hartley |
| Hollywood Canteen | 1944 | | Eleanor Parker |
| The Very Thought of You | 1944 | | Janet Wheeler |
| The Last Ride | 1944 | | Kitty Kelly |
| Crime by Night | 1944 | | Irene Carr |
| Atlantic City | 1944 | | Bathing Beauty (uncredited) |
| Between Two Worlds | 1944 | | Ann Bergner |
| Destination Tokyo | 1943 | | Mike's Wife on Record (voice, uncredited) |
| Mission to Moscow | 1943 | | Emlen Davies |
| The Mysterious Doctor | 1943 | | Letty Carstairs |
| Vaudeville Days | 1942 | Short | Colleen (song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling") (uncredited) |
| Busses Roar | 1942 | | Norma |
| Men of the Sky | 1942 | Short | Mrs. Frank Bickley |
| The Big Shot | 1942 | | Telephone Operator (voice, uncredited) |
| Soldiers in White | 1942 | Short | Nurse Ryan |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Hans Brinker | 1969 | TV Movie performer: "There Is A Way", "Golden Tomorrow" | |
| Interrupted Melody | 1955 | "Tristan und Isolde" 1856-9, uncredited / performer: "Don Carlos" 1867, "II Trovatore" 1853, "Madame Butterfly" 1904, "Carmen" 1875, "Samson and Delilah" 1877, "Gotterdammerung" 1876, "Tristan und Isolde" 1856-9, "Annie Laurie" 1834-5, "Over the Rainbow" 1939, "Anchors Aweigh" 1906, "Musetta's Waltz", "The Marine Hymn" ©1891, "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" 1942, "Waltzing Matilda" 1903 - uncredited | |
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$14 Million
