--- name: "Gloria Jean" canonical: "https://film.one/person/gloria-jean" fi1m_id: "gloria-jean" imdb_id: "nm0419849" tmdb_id: 101991 wikidata_id: "Q5571397" roles: ["Actor"] born: "14 April 1926" died: "31 August 2018" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-26T14:19:50.140237+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Gloria Jean ## Identity Gloria Jean - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gloria-jean - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** gloria-jean - **IMDb ID:** nm0419849 - **TMDB ID:** 101991 - **Wikidata ID:** Q5571397 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Jean, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5571397, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419849/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/101991 Actor. Born 14 April 1926 in Buffalo, New York, USA. Died 31 August 2018. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 14 April 1926, Buffalo, New York, USA - **Died:** 31 August 2018 - **Also known as:** Gloria Jean Schoonover, Baby Skylark - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Jean, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5571397, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419849/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/101991 ## Biography Gloria Jean (born Gloria Jean Schoonover) was an American actress and singer. She appeared in 26 feature films between 1939 and 1959, along with radio, television, stage and nightclub work. Her final credited film role was as Gloria in the 1961 comedy *The Ladies Man*. She began singing on radio as a child in Scranton, Pennsylvania, billed as Baby Skylark, and trained as a coloratura soprano. At 12 she joined a New York opera company. In 1938 she was signed by Universal Pictures after an audition with producer Joe Pasternak and made her screen debut the following year in *The Under-Pup*. She is best known for her co-starring role with W. C. Fields in *Never Give a Sucker an Even Break* (1941). Jean was born on 14 April 1926 in Buffalo, New York, and died on 31 August 2018 in Mountain View, Hawaii. *Sources: nytimes.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Ladies Man* (1961), Fi1m 72, as Gloria — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ladies-man.md) ## Complete filmography (26) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Ladies Man* (1961), as Gloria — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ladies-man.md) - *Lock-Up* (1959), series, Actor - *Air Strike* (1955), as Marg Huggins - *There's a Girl in My Heart* (1949), as Ruth Kroner - *Manhattan Angel* (1949), as Gloria Cole - *An Old-Fashioned Girl* (1949), as Polly Milton - *I Surrender Dear* (1948), as Patty Nelson aka Patty Hart - *Copacabana* (1947), as Anne Stuart - *River Gang* (1945), as Wendy - *Easy to Look At* (1945), Actor - *I'll Remember April* (1945), as April Garfield - *Destiny* (1944), as Jane Broderick - *Reckless Age* (1944), as Linda Wadsworth - *Ghost Catchers* (1944), as Melinda Marshall - *Follow the Boys* (1944), as Gloria Jean (uncredited) - *Pardon My Rhythm* (1944), as Jinx Page - *Moonlight in Vermont* (1943), as Gwen Harding - *Mister Big* (1943), as Patricia Davis - *It Comes Up Love* (1943), as Victoria Peabody - *When Johnny Comes Marching Home* (1942), as Marilyn - *Get Hep to Love* (1942), as Doris Stanley - *What's Cookin'?* (1942), as Sue Courtney - *Never Give a Sucker an Even Break* (1941), as His Niece - *A Little Bit of Heaven* (1940), as Midge Loring - *If I Had My Way* (1940), as Patricia 'Pat' Johnson - *The Under-Pup* (1939), as Pip-Emma Binns ## Gallery - ![Gloria Jean in Copacabana 1947 (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/3907378/gallery-d35200a91db6.jpg) Gloria Jean in Copacabana 1947 (2022) — United Artists, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Gloria_Jean_in_Copacabana_1947_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Postcard photograph of actress Gloria Jean (1942)](https://film.one/media/person/3907378/gallery-7b8f2896d49b.jpg) Postcard photograph of actress Gloria Jean (1942) — Universal, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Gloria_Jean_Postcard_1940.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Gloria Jean](https://film.one/media/person/3907378/gallery-687c94a44454.jpg) Gloria Jean — United Artists publicity still, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Gloria_Jean.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Groucho Marx and Gloria Jean in Copacabana (1947).](https://film.one/media/person/3907378/gallery-e8f7bae2f788.jpg) Groucho Marx and Gloria Jean in Copacabana (1947). — United Artists Corporation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Gloria_Jean_in_Copacabana_%281947%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Gloria Jean](https://film.one/media/person/3907378/gallery-d6fff7c7b423.jpg) Gloria Jean — Image via TMDB - ![Groucho Marx and Gloria Jean in Copacabana (1947).](https://film.one/media/person/3907378/gallery-50b8ea1c0980.jpg) Groucho Marx and Gloria Jean in Copacabana (1947). — United Artists Corporation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Groucho_Marx_and_Gloria_Jean_in_Copacabana_%281947%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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