Jean Muir

Acting

Jean Muir

Born 1911-02-13 · Suffern, New York, USA

Jean Muir (born Jean Muir Fullarton) was an American stage and film actress and educator. She was the first performer to be blacklisted after her name appeared in the infamous anti-Communist 1950 pamphlet 'Red Channels'.

Acting credits

A Midsummer Night's Dream poster
6.4

Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1935

The Constant Nymph poster
6.3

The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.

The Constant Nymph

1943

Son of a Sailor poster
6.0

A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.

Son of a Sailor

1933

No artwork available
7.0

A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner Bros. Studios and is greeted by several stars; Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee, and Dick Powell work at a gold mine; Joan Blondell, recovered from a recent illness, thanks her fans; songs from the movie Harold Teen (1934) are performed by the songwriters and the film's stars.

Hollywood Newsreel

1934

Dance Charlie Dance poster
8.0

A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is sued for plagiarism.

Dance Charlie Dance

1937

Oil for the Lamps of China poster
7.2

An American oil company representative risks sacrificing his marriage for his career in the rural lands of China.

Oil for the Lamps of China

1935

Gentlemen Are Born poster
7.3

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.

Gentlemen Are Born

1934

The World Changes poster
4.8

Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.

The World Changes

1933

Bureau of Missing Persons poster
5.7

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...

Bureau of Missing Persons

1933

Desirable poster
7.2

A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.

Desirable

1934

White Fang poster
7.0

A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.

White Fang

1936

Female poster
6.3

Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.

Female

1933

The Outcasts of Poker Flat poster
6.3

The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

1937

The White Cockatoo poster
5.9

In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.

The White Cockatoo

1935

Her Husband's Secretary poster
6.0

A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary.

Her Husband's Secretary

1937

A Dream Comes True poster
6.3

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

A Dream Comes True

1935

A Modern Hero poster
7.0

A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.

A Modern Hero

1934

Bedside poster
5.6

Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.

Bedside

1934

Stars Over Broadway poster
5.6

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

Stars Over Broadway

1935

And One Was Beautiful poster
6.7

A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.

And One Was Beautiful

1940

White Bondage poster
6.8

A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.

White Bondage

1937

Draegerman Courage poster
7.3

After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.

Draegerman Courage

1937

Once a Doctor poster
6.5

Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.

Once a Doctor

1937

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady poster
6.4

A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

1940

Behind the camera