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| Jean Hope |
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born:
13 August 1903 Missouri Valley, Iowa, United States of America |
died:
22 October 1987 Santa Maria, California, United States of America (age 84) |
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Blonde-haired American actress with dark brown eyes, who appeared among the Vanity Fair Maids/Girls in the like-named 1920-21 series of Hal Roach comedies; she also appeared in some of Snub Pollard's post-Roach Weiss Brothers shorts. Her parents were vaudeville performers Margaret Louis (Klipper) and Otto Fredrich Peck. Young Jean began on stage as a "child toe dancer" (per her 1921 Studio Directory bio). She was married to "Vanity Fair Girls" series star Eddie Boland from May 28, 1921 to March 1922, when she divorced him claiming that the comedian "made her life everything but happy by perpetual intoxication." She remarried to Nicholas Massanova in 1923; in the 1930 U.S. Census, Jean H. Massanova was working as a cosmetologist at a beauty parlor in the Los Angeles area. In 1943, she married Carl John Lewan (1893-1953) in Medford, Oregon. She died as Jean Hope Lewan. Her mother's maiden name of Klipper might have been the basis for Jean's sometime stage name of "Jean Clippard." |
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Real name: Jean Hope Peck Height: 5'3" |
Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography. |
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