Freeman war in ihrer Schulzeit ein Modell und wurde auch schon zur “Miss Subway” über das Schienennetz der Stadt New York gekürt. Während dieser Kür kam sie in Kontakt mit dem Unternehmer Howard Hughes und wurde später an Paramount Pictures verkauft. Im Jahre 1944 begann ihre Karriere. In ihren jungen Jahren wurde die hübsche Freeman zu einem Teenager-Star und verkörperte vor allem junge Naive. Später ließ ihr Erfolg zunehmend nach, und sie trat meistens nur in B-Filmen auf, wobei der Film Engelsgesicht mit Robert Mitchum eine nennenswerte Ausnahme bildete. Mit Dean Martin und Jerry Lewis war sie auch in der Komödie Schrecken der Division zu sehen. In den 1950er-Jahren verlagerte sich der Schwerpunkt ihrer Tätigkeit zusehends vom Film in Richtung Fernsehserien. Bis einschließlich 1972 war sie in mehr als 60 Produktionen zu sehen.Mona Freeman war zweimal verheiratet und Mutter mindestens einer Tochter. Bei ihrem Tod im Jahr 2014, kurz vor ihrem 88. Geburtstag, wurde sie von mehreren Enkeln und Urenkeln überlebt.
Mona Freeman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA on June 9, 1926 as Monica Elizabeth Freeman. Her work include Black Beauty (1946), The Heiress (1949), Dear Ruth (1947), and…Read more Jumping Jacks (1952). Freeman worked as a professional model while she was still in high school, which allowed her to sign a movie contract with Paramount. Freeman passed away on May 23, 2014 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Mona Freeman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA on June 9, 1926 as Monica Elizabeth Freeman. Her work include Black Beauty (1946), The Heiress (1949), Dear Ruth (1947), and Jumping Jacks (1952). Freeman worked as a professional model while she was still in high school, which…Read more allowed her to sign a movie contract with Paramount. Freeman passed away on May 23, 2014 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.As an adult, Freeman’s career slowed and she appeared in mostly B-movies, though an exception was her role in the film noir Angel Face (1952). She also co-starred in the hit film Jumping Jacks (1952) with the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Freeman was also a portrait painter and concentrated on painting after 1961. Her best-known portrait is that of businesswoman Mary See, founder of See’s Candies.Freeman’s first film appearance was in the 1944 film Till We Meet Again. She became a popular teenage movie star. After a series of roles as a pretty, naive teenager she complained of being typecast.
Born 1926 in Baltimore, Maryland, American actress and painter Mona Freeman grew up in Pelham, New York. She was a model while in high school, and was selected the first “Miss Subways” of the New York City transit system in 1940.
Freeman’s appearances in films ended in the 1950s but she continued to work in television. She appeared in an episode of Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958-1961) starring Steve McQueen.A professional model while still in high school, Mona Freeman was signed to a movie contract by Howard Hughes, who then proceeded to sell her contract to Paramount. Starting out in typical juvenile parts, she developed into a very competent actress. As she worked her way out of the teenage ingénue role, however, she found that she had less success in adult roles, and instead of landing parts in “A” pictures she found herself relegated to “B” westerns and somewhat tawdry crime dramas (e.g., Flesh and Fury (1952), Shadow of Fear (1955)). She basically retired from film work in the late 1950s, but worked steadily in television for quite some time after that. Freeman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in Pelham, New York. A lumberman’s daughter, she was a model while in high school, and was selected the first “Miss Subways” of the New York City transit system in 1940. Freeman married Pat Nerney, a car dealer, in Los Angeles in 1945. The couple had one daughter, Mona. They divorced in 1952. In 1961, she married H. Jack Ellis, a businessman from Los Angeles.Her contract was later sold to Paramount Pictures. Her first film appearance was in the 1944 film Till We Meet Again. She became a popular teenage movie star. After a series of roles as a pretty, naive teenager, she complained of being typecast.Freeman was a portrait painter and concentrated on painting after 1961. Her best-known portrait is that of businesswoman Mary See, founder of See’s Candies. As an adult, Freeman’s career slowed and she appeared in mostly B-movies, though an exception was her role in the film noir Angel Face (1952). She also co-starred in the hit film Jumping Jacks with the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Freeman’s appearances in films ended in the 1950s, but she continued to work in television. Among her appearances were seven guest roles on The United States Steel Hour from 1960 to 1962 and three on Perry Mason, all of them roles as Mason’s client: Jane Wardman in “The Case of the Lurid Letter” (1962), Rosanne Ambrose in “The Case of the Illicit Illusion” (1964), and Ellen Payne in “The Case of the 12th Wildcat” (1965). She appeared in two episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive starring Steve McQueen titled “The Fourth Headstone” (Season One, Episode 9, air date 11/1/1958) and “Breakout” (Season 2 Episode 4, aired 9/26/1959), and two episodes of Maverick titled “The Cats of Paradise” (1959) and “Cruise of the Cynthia B.” (1960), both starring James Garner, in which she played a recurring role as crazy-eyed swindler Modesty Blaine. She also appeared in an episode of Riverboat titled “The Boy from Pittsburgh” (1959) starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds, an episode of Checkmate titled “Don’t Believe a Word She Says” (1961) starring Doug McClure and Sebastian Cabot, and an episode of The Tall Man titled “Petticoat Crusade” (1961) starring Barry Sullivan as Pat Garrett and Clu Gulager as Billy the Kid, along with numerous other leading lady roles in various television series, including anthologies.Monica Elizabeth Freeman was born in 1926 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Her father, Stuart Freeman, was a contractor. She worked as a professional model while still in high school. She was a teenage cover girl for John Robert Powers and was the first of the ‘Miss Subway’ girls of the New York City transit system in 1940. Freeman was signed to a film contract by Howard Hughes, who gave her a two-year contract after seeing one of her photographs on a magazine cover. Paramount wound up buying out her contract from Hughes, while she had never done a bit of work for the eccentric mogul. The 18-year-old’s first role was as Barbara Stanwyck’s teen stepdaughter in Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944) but she photographed so young, she was replaced by Jean Heather. She still made her debut in the film, however, when she was instead handed a one-line bit part as Edward G. Robinson’s secretary. She was also cast to play Elizabeth Taylor’s older sister in National Velvet (Clarence Brown, 1944) but once again was replaced (by Angela Lansbury) because she did not look old enough. In truth, Mona was six years Taylor’s senior. She became a popular teenage film star in such films as Junior Miss (George Seaton, 1945), That Brennan Girl (Alfred Santell, 1946) and Mother Wore Tights (Walter Lang, 1947) with Betty Grable as her mother. After a series of roles as a pretty, naive teenager she complained of being typecast.
As Mona Freeman worked her way out of the teenage ingénue role, however, she found that she had less success in adult roles, and instead of landing parts in A pictures she found herself relegated to B Westerns and somewhat tawdry crime dramas like Flesh and Fury (Joseph Pevney1952) with Tony Curtis and Jan Sterling, and the British production Before I Wake (Albert S. Rogell, 1955) with Jean Kent. An exception was her role in the Film Noir Angel Face (Otto Preminger, 1952), with Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons. She also co-starred in the hit comedy Jumping Jacks (Norman Taurog, 1952), with the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. She retired from film and toured with Edward G. Robinson in a 1958 production of Paddy Chayefsky’s ‘Middle of the Night’ and over the next years appeared on television in such series as Wagon Train, Maverick, Wanted: Dead or Alive, and in multiple episodes of the United States Steel Hour and Perry Mason. Her final role was in the TV film Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol (George McCowan, 1972) with Martin Landau. In later years she ran an art studio and gallery and became a portrait painter of note. Mona Freeman passed away in 2014 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. She was married twice. In 1945, she married Patrick Weldon Nerney, a wealthy Hollywood auto dealer. They had one child, actress Monie Ellis (1947), and divorced in 1953. Her second husband was Los Angeles businessman Jack Ellis, whom she married in 1961. He officially adopted Mona’s daughter and the couple remained together till his death in 1992.American actress Mona Freeman (1926-2014) was the perennially young bobbysoxer of post-war Paramount. She played teens long after she outgrew the roles, and it later stifled her adult career although she became a competent actress.# if (data.media_type) { # #= public_media_type_map[data.media_type] # • # } # # if (data.original_title !== data.title) { # #= data.original_title # # } # # if (data.release_date) { # #= data.release_date # # } #
Monica Elizabeth “Mona” Freeman (June 9, 1926 – May 23, 2014) was an American actress and painter. A professional model while still in high school, Mona Freeman was signed to a movie contract by Howard Hughes, who then proceeded to sell her contract to Paramount. Starting out in typical juvenile parts, she developed into a very competent actress. As she worked her way out of the teenage ingénue role, however, she found that she had less success in adult roles, and instead of landing parts in “A” pictures she found herself relegated to “B” westerns and somewhat tawdry crime dramas. She basically retired from film work in the late 1950s, but worked steadily in television for quite some time after that.
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In addition to Ellis — who starred as Gidget in the 1972 TV movie Gidget Gets Married — survivors include six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Freeman played Marian Almond, the cousin of Olivia de Havilland‘s character who gets engaged in William Wyler‘s acclaimed film The Heiress (1949). In Junior Miss (1945), she starred as 13-year-old Lois Graves, who with her older sister (Peggy Ann Garner) meddle in people’s love lives. And she portrayed Ziggy, who learns some terrible habits from her mother in That Brennan Girl (1946).
Born in Baltimore, Freeman worked as a teenage model in New York City and was named “Miss Subways” in 1941, the first one picked. She was signed to her first movie contract by RKO’s Howard Hughes.
Freeman also starred as Miriam Wilkins, a teen who has a pen-pal romance with a soldier (William Holden) during World War II but signs her older sister’s name to the letters, in Dear Ruth (1947). She then reprised the role in Dear Wife (1949) and Dear Brat (1951).Actress Mona Freeman, cast as a perpetual teenager throughout the 1940s and ’50s in such films as The Heiress, Junior Miss, Dear Ruth and I Was a Shoplifter, has died. She was 87.
Her TV work included episodes of Maverick, Perry Mason, Wagon Train, The Millionaire and Branded. Her final onscreen credit came in the 1972 telefilm Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol.
The blonde and youthful Freeman also appeared in such films as Till We Meet and Again Together Again, both released in 1944; the musical Mother Wore Tights (1947), as the daughter of Betty Grable‘s character; Streets of Laredo (1949), opposite Holden and Macdonald Carey; I Was a Shoplifter (1950), as a petty thief and daughter of a judge; and Otto Preminger‘s Angel Face (1952).
Monica Elizabeth Freeman was born in Baltimore on June 9, 1926, and was raised in Pelham, N.Y. Her marriage at 19 to Los Angeles auto dealer Pat Nerney ended in divorce seven years later. In 1961, she married Los Angeles businessman H. Jack Ellis and devoted herself to painting portraits, many of them on commission.Asked what kind of role she really wanted, Ms. Freeman, who was “curled up in a chair in [Hopper’s] den, primly dressed in a yellow pleated skirt and angora sweater,” replied: “There’s a triangle love case in the courts right now — and the girl has to be an all-time dilly. I’d like to play a character like her.”
