Jeanne Bates(1918-2007)
- Actress
Jeanne Bates began her acting career while a student at San Mateo
Junior College, appearing on radio soap operas in San Francisco. She
played the lead in an airwave mystery series, Lew X. Lansworth's
"Whodunit" (Bates' scream was the show's "signature"), which became so
successful that it (and Bates) moved to Hollywood in 1941. Bates and
Lansworth married in 1943. By the time the two were married, Bates was
already under contract to Columbia Pictures, where she debuted in a
Boston Blackie mystery.
