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Jean Hagen

Jean Hagen

Actor · Died August 29, 1977, aged 54 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean Hagen (born Jean Shirley Verhagen, August 3, 1923 – August 29, 1977) was an American actress best known for her role as Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain (1952), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Hagen was also nominated three times for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Margaret Williams (1953–56) on the television series Make Room For Daddy. Her film debut was as a comical femme fatale in the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn 1949 classic Adam's Rib, directed by George Cukor. The Asphalt Jungle (1950) provided Hagen with her first starring role alongside Sterling Hayden. Hagen received excellent reviews playing "Doll" Conover, a woman who sticks by criminal Dix's side until the bitter end. She appeared too in the film noir Side Street (1950) playing a gangster's sincere but none-too-bright nightclub-singer girlfriend. Hagen is best remembered for her comic performance in Singin' in the Rain as the vain and talentless silent movie star Lina Lamont. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for this memorable performance. By 1953, she had joined the cast of the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy. For her portrayal as the first wife of Danny Thomas, Hagen received three Emmy Award nominations, but after three seasons, she grew dissatisfied with the role and left the series. Thomas, who also produced the show, reportedly did not appreciate Hagen's departing the successful series, and her character was killed off rather than recast. This was the first TV character to be killed off in a family sitcom. Marjorie Lord was cast a year later as Danny's second wife and played opposite Thomas successfully for the remainder of the series. In 1957 Hagen co-starred in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents titled "Enough Rope for Two", portraying a woman who accompanies two thieves trying to retrieve stolen money from a desert mine shaft. She then appeared as Elizabeth in the 1960 episode "Once Upon a Knight" on CBS's anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson; and the following year she guest-starred on The Andy Griffith Show in the episode "Andy and the Woman Speeder". Although she made frequent guest appearances in various television series, Hagen was unable to successfully resume her film career in starring roles. After appearing with Fred MacMurray in the Disney comedy The Shaggy Dog (1959), Hagen for the remainder of her career played supporting roles, such as Marguerite LeHand, personal secretary to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello (1960), and the friend of Bette Davis in Dead Ringer (1964). In the 1960s, Hagen's health began to decline and she spent many years hospitalized or under medical care. Much later, in 1976, she made a comeback of sorts playing character roles in episodes of the television series Starsky and Hutch and The Streets of San Francisco. She, however, made her final acting appearance the next year in the television movie Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn.

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Born
August 3, 1923
Died
August 29, 1977 (aged 54)
From
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Works as
Actor
Titles
22 on MovieCove · 39 credits in all
Links
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Known for

TMDB popularity, last 37 days to Oct 26Up 4% in 30 days

What are Jean Hagen's films like?

Usually the Ally: 6 of 8 analyzed roles.

Genres

Drama6 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 52nd percentile
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Comedy4 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 73rd percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Comedy movies
Crime4 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 81st percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Crime movies
Biography2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 75th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Biography movies

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Roles they play

8 analyzed roles
Ally
6 of 8
Shapeshifter
1 of 8
Shadow
1 of 8
Show the 8 roles

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Jean Hagen's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 12 of their 22 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (8).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Jean Hagen's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

39 credits, 22 with a MovieCove page; 2 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • Becoming Marilyn (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)

    as (archive footage)

  • Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn(1977)

    as Landlady

    Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films

  • Starsky and Hutch(1975)

    Show 1 episode · as Belle Kates

    Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all shows

  • The Streets of San Francisco (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1972)

    Show 1 episode · as Ms. Unger

  • Make Room for Granddaddy(1970)

    Show Actor

    Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all shows

  • Dead Ringer(1963)

    as Dede Marshall

    Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films

  • Panic in Year Zero!(1962)

    as Ann Baldwin

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films

  • Ben Casey (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1961)

    Show 1 episode · Actor

  • Dr. Kildare (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1961)

    Show 1 episode · as Nurse Mary Ogilvy

  • Stagecoach West (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)

    Show 1 episode · as Lilly de Milo

  • The Andy Griffith Show(1960)

    Show 1 episode · as Elizabeth Crowley

    Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows

  • Sunrise at Campobello(1960)

    as Missy Le Hand

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films

  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)

    as Rhoda

  • The Detectives (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1959)

    Show 1 episode · as Alice Streger

  • The DuPont Show with June Allyson (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1959)

    Show 1 episode · as Elizabeth

  • The Shaggy Dog(1959)

    as Freeda Daniels

    Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films

  • Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1958)

    Show 3 episodes · Actor

  • Wagon Train(1957)

    Show 1 episode · as Maidie Brant · as Sarah Proctor

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all shows

  • Spring Reunion(1956)

    as Barna Forrest

    Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all films

  • Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)

    Show 1 episode · as Anne Madden

  • The Big Knife(1955)

    as Connie Bliss

    Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films

  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents(1955)

    Show 1 episode · as Madge Griffin

    Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows

  • Climax! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)

    Show 1 episode · as Eleanor Gehrig

  • The Danny Thomas Show (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1953)

    Show 90 episodes · as Margaret Williams

  • Latin Lovers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1953)

    as Anne Kellwood

  • Arena(1953)

    as Meg Hutchins

    Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all films

  • Half a Hero(1953)

    as Martha Dobson

    Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films

  • General Electric Theater (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1953)

    Show 1 episode · as Paula Farrel

  • The Ford Television Theatre (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1952)

    Show 1 episode · as Nona Carson

  • Shadow in the Sky(1952)

    as Stella Murphy

    Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films

  • Carbine Williams(1952)

    as Maggie Williams

    Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all films

  • Singin' in the Rain(1952)

    as Lina Lamont

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films

  • No Questions Asked(1951)

    as Joan Brenson

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films

  • Night Into Morning (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1951)

    as Girl Next Door

  • A Life of Her Own(1950)

    as Maggie Collins

    Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films

  • The Asphalt Jungle(1950)

    as Doll Conovan

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films

  • Side Street (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1950)

    as Harriette Sinton

  • Ambush(1950)

    as Martha Conovan

    Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films

  • Adam's Rib(1949)

    as Beryl Caighn

    Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films

Career shape

Biggest box office

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

$2.1M worldwide

Highest rated

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Midcredits 99th

Billing

usually 4th · top billed in 0% of 8 roles

Counts over their MovieCove titles; a title counts in every role they held on it. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30.