Gloria Jean

Personal Info

Birthday

April 14, 1926

Day of Death

2018-08-31

(92 years old)

Place of Birth

Buffalo, New York, USA

Also Known As

Gloria Jean Schoonover

Baby Skylark

Gloria Jean

Biography

Gloria Jean (born Gloria Jean Schoonover, April 14, 1926 – August 31, 2018) was an American actress and singer who starred or co-starred in 26 feature films from 1939 to 1959, and made numerous radio, television, stage, and nightclub appearances. She is probably best remembered today for her appearance with W.

C. Fields in the film Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941). Gloria Jean was three years old when she first sang on radio; in Scranton, Pennsylvania, she sang, under the name "Baby Skylark", with Paul Whiteman's orchestra on radio broadcasts.

Known For

Air Strike

The Ladies Man

Get Hep to Love

What's Cookin'?

Copacabana

The Under-Pup

If I Had My Way

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Filmography

1986
W.C. Fields: Straight Up
as Self
1961
The Ladies Man
as Gloria
1955
Air Strike
as Marg Huggins
1949
There's a Girl in My Heart
as Ruth Kroner
Manhattan Angel
as Gloria Cole
An Old-Fashioned Girl
as Polly Milton
1948
I Surrender Dear
as Patty Nelson aka Patty Hart
1947
Copacabana
as Anne Stuart
1945
River Gang
as Wendy
I'll Remember April
as April Garfield
1944
Destiny
as Jane Broderick
Reckless Age
as Linda Wadsworth
Ghost Catchers
as Melinda Marshall
Pardon My Rhythm
as Jinx Page
1943
Moonlight in Vermont
as Gwen Harding
Mister Big
as Patricia Davis
It Comes Up Love
as Victoria Peabody
1942
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
as Marilyn Benton
Get Hep to Love
as Doris Stanley
What's Cookin'?
as Sue Courtney
1941
Jingle Belles
as herself
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
as His Niece
1940
A Little Bit of Heaven
as Midge Loring
If I Had My Way
as Patricia 'Pat' Johnson
1939
The Under-Pup
as Pip-Emma Binns