Eu amo, amo, amo Jeanne Crain. Eu amo
o cabelo dela – quero imitar aqueles penteados! - o sorriso dela, os olhos
dela, o rosto dela. Eu amo os filmes dela. Eu amo a persona doce dela em seus
filmes, e as personagens mais distantes dessa doçura em filmes ousados como “O
que a Carne Herda” (1949), o primeiro filme que vi com ela. E eu amo o fato de
ela ter muitos talentos. Além de ser uma boa – e subestimada – atriz, Jeanne
também foi uma ótima pintora.
I love, love,
love Jeanne Crain. I love her hair – goals! - her smile, her eyes, her face. I
love her movies. I love her sweet on screen persona, that could be changed and
challenged in risky movies like “Pinky” (1949), the first I've watched with
her. And I love the fact that she had many talents. Besides being a fine – and
underrated – actress, Jeanne was also a very good painter.
De acordo com um artigo de 1992 do
Chicago Tribune, Jeanne Crain amava arte desde cedo. Na adolescência, ela
começou a fazer peças no sul da Califórnia, e logo procurou trabalho como
modelo e participou de concursos de beleza para ser notada, com a esperança de
se tornar atriz em Hollywood. Funcionou: aos 17 anos ela assinou seu primeiro
contrato, e dois anos depois seu primeiro filme estreou.
According to
a 1992 Chicago Tribune article, Jeanne Crain loved art since she was young. In
her teen years, she started appearing in plays in Southern California, and soon
she sought work as a model and participated in beauty contests to be noticed,
in the hopes of becoming a Hollywood actress. It worked: at 17 she signed her
first contract, and two years later her first film was released.
Jeanne Crain passou a se dedicar ao
cinema e à família, pois ela teve, pasmem, sete filhos! Seu amor pela arte,
pelo desenho e pela pintura, entretanto, não desapareceu. Em 1953 seu marido
construiu um estúdio em casa para Jeanne poder pintar. Ela só pôde se dedicar
mais à pintura a partir dos anos 70, quando deixou de fazer filmes e apenas
esporadicamente fazia televisão. Jeanne pintava principalmente retratos.
Jeanne Crain
then dedicated herself to films and to family, as she had astounding seven
children! Her love for art, drawing and painting, however, didn't disappear. In
1953 her husband built a studio in their house for Jeanne to exercise her
passion. She was only really able to paint more starting in the 1970s, when she
stopped making films and only sporadically appeared on TV. Jeanne painted mainly portraits.
Nos anos 80, muitas de suas pinturas
foram exibidas em galerias como a Mascagni diItaly e as galerias da Westwood
Art Association. Mesmo Jeanne Crain não podendo explorar a paixão pela pintura
o tempo todo, ela foi capaz de se tornar uma ótima pintora. Infelizmente, não é
possível encontrar muito sobre suas pinturas na internet desde o fechamento do
seu site oficial, mas ao menos foi possível ver, com essa pequena amostra, que
Jeanne era uma verdadeira artista em mais de um sentido.
In the 1980s,
many of her paintings were exhibited in galleries such as the Mascagni diItaly
and the Westwood Art Association Galleries. Although Jeanne Crain never
explored her passion for painting full-time, she was able to become a fine
painter. The worst part is that there is not much about her paintings on the
internet since her official website was shut down, but at least we could see,
by the small sample, that Jeanne was a true artist in more than one way.
This is my
contribution to the Jeanne Crain blogathon, hosted by Christine at Overture
Books and Film.
3 comments:
I was not aware of this side to Jeanne Crain. It makes me happy to see such creativity.
I didn't realize Jeanne Crain was a painter, in addition to her other talents. I love her pieces!
Thanks for sharing this.
She was multi-talented indeed! I love the style of her paintings! Thanks so much for this informative piece Le!
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