Jean Hale

[beutelwolf]

Party vol 3 no 5
Film review, with a couple of Jean Hale pics

[johnbear]

[mameylopez]

[togolane]

McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force



[ mod edit - dead link(s) removed]

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7fp1jh

[cuzzyman927]

Slightly different version from those previously posted.
Thanks to womwam for his post.

[cuzzyman927]

[Wendigo]

Batman s2e35 - The Contaminated Cowl
Episode aired Feb 28, 1967
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519515/

and Batman s2e36 - The Mad Hatter Runs Afoul
Episode aired Mar 1, 1967
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519538/

[Findcandor]

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Superspy Flint desired to be in the one above,
in IN LIKE FLINT.

I would have liked to spend more time exploring this extraordinary beauty, but I'm only here because Jean Hale popped up in a film that I was collecting reference from for another post.


Since I've already compromised by offering already-presented turf, let me add to this corrupt behavior
by tacking on the last shot (which I reworked) from 2012's Post #9 by Member "Beutelwolf." The caption
from Parade Magazine reads: "Our man Flint returns to the screen soon in 'In Like Flint' — and his latest
girlfriend is curvaceous JEAN HALE. Is she for him or against him? 'Go and see the film,' replies James
Coburn who plays special agent Flint." (Oh, shut up, James Coburn.)

Now let me get these images out of the way first (as seen above), because I spent too much time finding and preparing them, and only later realized Member "Cuzzyman927" presented most of the shots a few posts up (in 2019), and Member "Mameylopez" put up one back in 2015. (In Posts 16 and 13 respectively, which you can see by scrolling up on this page. Member "Womwam" also put up two back in 2010's Post #2 on the prior page, although one's large version has since gone dead. There isn't all that much out there on this ravishing, ravishing woman — which is semi-surprising because she is... did I already mention this?... well, ravishing.)


A-ha! Something from the web that has not
been as widely reproduced, and it happens
to be from the film being highlighted, too.

The film is Our Man Flint (1967), one that seems to have been skipped in the thread so far. In the story, women brainwash women (through the use of salon hairdryers that transmit subliminal messages) in order to try and overthrow the male-dominated world. Jean Hale was the perfect pick for the role of leader (or one of the leaders), because she not only has the exceptional looks, but exudes intelligence as well.


Her appearance was marked by showing skin, in both beginning and end of the film.

I only wish the print I worked off of was of better quality.











This film apparently proved to be such a career boost, it prompted Fox Studios to sign her up, one picture for each of seven years. The contract came in handy for her next title, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), and she should have kept churning them out until 1974... but something went very wrong.




It looks like this lady had so much going for her. Ms. Hale's screen career began in earnest in 1963 (when she was twenty-five) and the roles kept hurtling toward her much as the knives you see in the first shot below (from Perry Mason, "The Case of the Murderous Mermaid," 1965).


Boy, she looks tremendous in the third photo. Last: with actors Jess Barker and Richard Erdman.

Then things slowed down in 1970, and in the next few years her onscreen exposure came to a practical halt. She later capped off with appearances in three TV movies, from 1987, 1990 and 1991, the last with Jaclyn Smith called Lies Before Kisses; screen shots from her final film are below.


Only in two quick scenes from LIES BEFORE KISSES, and then she sat in court, with Jaclyn Smith (and James Karen in center).


Probably her Mormon ties (she was born in Utah, but also spent time in Connecticut) were too strong. After marrying actor Dabney Coleman (wasn't he the luckiest dog; during certain evenings, he was rumored to say to his wife, "A little Dab will do ya") in 1961, the marriage unraveled (her IMDb bio states they separated after the birth of their third child in 1972, although the official divorce was in 1984), and this break-up may have had an effect on her mental well-being. Yet the reason for her career coming to a virtual standstill believably must have had a lot to do with the loosening mores at the time, and Jean was probably too uptight to take part. (As with how it's said Jean turned down Valley of the Dolls, given the requirement for partial nudity. Actress Jo Ann Pflug also refused to get down and dirty near the same time period, but still kept going to carve a good career.)


In a 1967 episode of the TV show Tarzan,
episode entitled "Hotel Hurricane"

As her IMDb bio has put it, "The studio was promoting Jean as a sex goddess but, much to its consternation, she was unwilling to fulfill the requirements of such an image — wearing skimpy costumes; turning down film roles that required semi-nudity; turning down publicity tours in Europe for the sake of her family. Jean even refused a Playboy Magazine spread having her model men's pajama tops, while promoting the 'In Like Flint' film. The frustrated heads at Fox released her." (Yes, contracts were made to be broken.)


Her first role of note was a big one, in a low-budget feature that tried to be as brutal a "slasher" as 1963 allowed; she was the distressed
damsel by VIOLENT MIDNIGHT's end. During these earlier years, the lady was a brunette, before dying her hair platinum blond.


She also had rotten breaks such as choice roles having bypassed her (e.g., Bonnie and Clyde), and all of her scenes from Something Big (1971, with the sensational Honor Blackman) wound up on the cutting room floor. It's a damned shame, I tell you.

She formed a production company later, and was (according to The Hollywood Reporter) working on a script called “Being Jeannie,” based on the true story of a woman who impersonated her, first in 1965, stealing $10,000 worth of merchandise. After being released from prison, the criminal pretended to be Jean again, while marrying ten men across Texas and Oklahoma, and stealing their money. Sounds like the work was unfinished, once Jean died in August of 2021, at the age of eighty-two.













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