# Jean Fenwick

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{{short description|American actress}}
{{Infobox person
| name          = Jean Fenwick
| image         = File:Jean_Fenwick.jpg
| alt           = 
| caption       = 
| birth_name    = Sigfreda Harriet Krauth
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1907|05|30}}
| birth_place   = [Trinidad](/source/Trinidad)
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1998|12|05|1907|05|30}}
| death_place   = [Woodland Hills, Los Angeles](/source/Woodland_Hills%2C_Los_Angeles), [California](/source/California), U.S.
| other_names   = Jean Morgan
| occupation    = Actress
| years_active  = 1926–1960
| known_for     = 
| notable_works = 
| relatives     = [Marian Marsh](/source/Marian_Marsh) <small>(sister)</small>
}}
'''Jean Fenwick''' (born '''Sigfreda Harriet Krauth''';<ref name="tt">{{cite news |title=Lands Movie Job |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22524005/jean_fenwick/ |work=The Tampa Times |date=September 24, 1936 |location=Florida, Tampa |page=1|via = [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com)|accessdate = August 5, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref> May 30, 1907 — December 5, 1998) was an American actress born in Trinidad.

==Early life==
Fenwick was born in Trinidad in 1907, the older sister of Violet Ethelred Krauth (who became actress [Marian Marsh](/source/Marian_Marsh))<ref>Dan Thomas, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7779767/jean_fenwick_and_marian_marsh_1931/ "Actress Sacrifices Her Own Career to Make Film Star of Baby Sister"] ''Ogden Standard-Examiner'' (March 29, 1931): 26. via [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com){{open access}}</ref> and Anthony Edward Krauth (who also acted, under the name "Tony Marsh"). Their parents, Leo Krauth and Harriet Morgan Krauth, ran a chocolate factory. During [World War I](/source/World_War_I) the Krauths moved to [Boston, Massachusetts](/source/Boston%2C_Massachusetts). In 1925, Harriet was one of the first 18 students chosen to open the Paramount Pictures School in New York City, along with [Thelma Todd](/source/Thelma_Todd).<ref>[https://www.proquest.com/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/103648642/137D5277459F48F1PQ/6 "Open New School of Movie Acting"] ''New York Times'' (July 21, 1925): 26.</ref> The family moved again, to [Los Angeles, California](/source/Los_Angeles%2C_California), when Harriet was a teenager starting in films.<ref>Margalit Fox, [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/11/obituaries/11marsh.html "Marian Marsh, 93, Petite Star of ‘Svengali,’ Dies" ''New York Times''] (November 11, 2006).</ref>

==Career==
In 1926, Fenwick was signed as a contract player at [FBO Studios](/source/Film_Booking_Offices_of_America), where she first used the screen name '''Jean Morgan''' before settling on Jean Fenwick.<ref>[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1937/09/26/page/110/article/vivacious-marian-marsh "Vivacious Marian Marsh"] ''Chicago Sunday Tribune'' (September 26, 1937): 2.</ref>

Films in which Fenwick appeared included ''[Cross Country Cruise](/source/Cross_Country_Cruise)'' (1933, with [Lew Ayres](/source/Lew_Ayres)),<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7779643/jean_fenwick_in_cross_country_cruise/ "Star's Sister Signed"] ''Brooklyn Daily Eagle'' (October 26, 1933): 8. via [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com){{open access}}</ref> ''[Mary of Scotland](/source/Mary_of_Scotland_(film))'' (1936, directed by [John Ford](/source/John_Ford) and starring [Katharine Hepburn](/source/Katharine_Hepburn)),<ref>Bill Levy, [https://books.google.com/books?id=fo0xjILcEa0C&dq=actress+Jean+Fenwick+married&pg=PA129 ''John Ford: A Bio-Bibliography''] (Greenwood Publishing 1998): 129. {{ISBN|9780313275142}}</ref> ''[Conquest](/source/Conquest_(1937_film))'' (1937, with [Greta Garbo](/source/Greta_Garbo)), ''[Arrest Bulldog Drummond](/source/Arrest_Bulldog_Drummond)'' (1939), ''[Divorce](/source/Divorce_(1945_film))'' (1945), and ''[Street Corner](/source/Street_Corner_(1948_film))'' (1948). Later in her career, she appeared in television productions, including episodes of ''[Gunsmoke](/source/Gunsmoke)'' (1957), and ''[One Step Beyond](/source/Alcoa_Presents%3A_One_Step_Beyond)'' (1960)

==Personal life==
Fenwick died in [Woodland Hills, California](/source/Woodland_Hills%2C_California) in 1998, aged 91 years.{{Citation needed |date=August 2022}}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0272119}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20161220181710/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba9febd0f Jean Fenwick's listing on BFI]

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Category:1907 births
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American silent film actresses
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:Trinidad and Tobago emigrants to the United States

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