Arleen Whelan
Actress

Arleen Whelan

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Actress
Gender:
Female
Places:
United States of America
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Actor
Work field:
Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Birth:
1 September 1914(Salt Lake City)
Death:
7 April 1993(Orange County)
Star sign:
Virgo
Family:
Spouse(s):
Alexander D'Arcy
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Arleen Whelan (September 1, 1916 – April 7, 1993) was an American film actress. She appeared in 25 films between 1937 and 1957, reportedly after 20th Century Fox director H. Bruce Humberstone saw Whelan working as a manicurist in a barbershop. After her screen test the studio cast Whelan as the female lead in a film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped (1938).

Selected filmography

  • Kidnapped (1938)
  • Gateway (1938)
  • Sabotage (1939)
  • Young People (1940)
  • Sundown Jim (1942)
  • Ramrod (1947)
  • That Wonderful Urge (1948)
  • Passage West (1951)
  • The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
  • Never Wave at a WAC (1953)
  • San Antone (1953)
  • The Women of Pitcairn Island (1956)