
Jean Ames
Acting
Biography
Jean Ames was born on August 24, 1919 in New York City, New York, USA as Irma Salzman. She was an actress, known for All Through the Night (1942), The Powers Girl (1943) and A Night Before Christmas (1942).
Known For

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
Manpower

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
All Through the Night

The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
The Male Animal

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
The Hard Way

A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
Million Dollar Baby

A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
You Can't Escape Forever

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
Larceny, Inc.

Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
The Powers Girl

Winning Your Wings is a 1942 short American World War II recruitment film produced by Warner Bros. Studios for the US Army Air Forces, starring Jimmy Stewart. It was aimed at young men who were thinking about joining the Air Force.