Acting

Jessica Rains

Born

1938-01-24 (88)

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

30 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 4 titles

1970s · 17 titles

The Sting poster
8.0

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.

The Sting

1973

Sleeper poster
6.8

Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.

Sleeper

1973

Butterflies Are Free poster
6.8

Striving to be independent, the blind but determined Don Baker moves away from his overprotective mother. After settling into his new San Francisco digs, Don meets kooky neighbor Jill Tanner. Don's quick wit and good looks disarm the free-spirited Jill, and before long they're more than just friends. Will Mrs. Baker's incessant meddling destroy Don and Jill's budding relationship?

Butterflies Are Free

1972

Islands in the Stream poster
6.5

An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.

Islands in the Stream

1977

Kotch poster
6.6

When retired salesman Joseph Kotcher begins to feel pressure to move out of the house he shares with the family of his son, he opts to embark on a road trip instead of settling in a retirement home. Befriending Erica, a young pregnant woman and his grandson's former nanny, Kotch begins to finds new meaning in life as he helps her prepare to welcome her baby into the world.

Kotch

1971

Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic poster
5.7

Finding herself unable to cope with the divorce of her parents and the stress of daily life, 15-year-old Sarah Travis starts drinking in secret. At first, alcohol provides comfort and release. Then it sends her life spiraling out of control.

Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

1975

Murder by Natural Causes poster
6.9

An elaborate mystery involving a famous mentalist, his unfaithful wife who is trying to literally scare him to death, the best friend of the family, and the wife's ham-actor lover -- not only an intriguing who- (or whether) dunit, but also a literate, adult dramatic puzzle with an endless series of twists.

Murder by Natural Causes

1979

Sex and the Married Woman poster
4.0

A suburban housewife writes a novel based on her neighbors' sex lives. It becomes a runaway best seller, but causes no end of trouble in her marriage and her relationships with her neighbors.

Sex and the Married Woman

1977

A Summer Without Boys poster
7.3

A middle-aged woman going through a divorce takes her daughter to a summer lodge where the girl experiences a powerful awakening to life's challenges.

A Summer Without Boys

1973

Stand Up and Be Counted poster
7.0

Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving at the town she is very surprised to see that her sister and also her mother agree very much with the feministic arguments.

Stand Up and Be Counted

1972

Scream, Pretty Peggy poster
6.2

A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.

Scream, Pretty Peggy

1973

Class of '63 poster
6.0

A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.

Class of '63

1973

Shirts/Skins poster
10.0

Six businessmen who have a weekly after-hours basketball game get caught up in a bet about a hide-and-seek contest.

Shirts/Skins

1973

Never Con a Killer poster
10.0

Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit Runyonesque horseplayer E.J. Valerian.

Never Con a Killer

1977

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood poster
4.0

The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when he arrived with little money, enormous expenses and an ill wife.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood

1975

Portnoy's Complaint poster
4.7

During a session with his psychoanalyst, Alexander Portnoy rants about everything that is bothering him. His complaints include his childhood and his family with an emphasis on his mother, his sexual fantasies and the problems that he has with women, and his obsessive feelings about his Judaism.

Portnoy's Complaint

1972

Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women poster
7.0

The life and times of the flamboyant showman who built his legendary Follies around beautiful women -- as told by the women in his life.

Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women

1978

Series credits

Behind the camera