Jean Moorhead

{{Short description|American actress and model}} {{For|the California politician|Jean Moorhead Duffy}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2022}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Jean Moorhead | image = ViolentYears JeanMoorhead.JPG | caption = Jean Moorhead in ''The Violent Years'' (1956) | birth_name = Barbara Jean Moorhead | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1935|02|04|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. | occupation = {{hlist|Actress|model}} | years_active = 1947–1960 | spouse = }}

'''Alma Jean Moorhead''' (born February 4, 1935)<ref name="Glamour Girls">{{cite web |url=http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show.php?id=199 |title=Jean Moorhead |work=Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen |accessdate=2009-05-23}}</ref> is an American retired actress and model. Billed under an alternatively spelled surname, '''Jean Moorehead''', she was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the October 1955 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Hal Adams.

== Biography == Jean Moorhead was adopted by Henry and Estelle Moorhead. She had a sister, Marilyn Moorhead.<ref name="Glamour Girls"/> A former Miss Hollywood, Jean Moorhead acted in such movies as the Ed Wood-scripted ''The Violent Years'' (1956) and a guest spot on the TV Western ''Death Valley Days'' (one episode, 1957). Her last billed performances were in two low-budget 1959 films, ''Gunmen from Laredo'' and ''The Atomic Submarine'', with one more (unbilled) appearance in the 1960 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical ''Bells Are Ringing''.

In the 1960s, she married Dr. Theodore Polos and had two children.<ref name="Glamour Girls"/><ref>{{Cite book|author=Samuel Claesson|author-link=|title=Glamour: Models, Mannequins, and Pinups of the 1950s|page=142|publisher=Sequoia Press|date=January 31, 2025|isbn=9798350736847}}</ref>

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|602093|Jean Moorhead}} * [http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/199/Jean+Moorhead/index.html Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen]

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