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Who played Jean Dexter the murdered girl?

posted 19 years ago by sweetheart87
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Iam trying to look at the credits but cannot find the name of the actress who played Jean Dexter the murdered girl????

[–] Devans00 18 years ago

I know, that's a shame. Even the corpses on Law and Order and CSI at least get their name listed in the credits on IMDb.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

[–] buxtehude99 18 years ago

A lot of this film is "spot the actor". Like Molly Picon who sells the detective the root beer. And James Gregory, probably best known as "Inspector Luger" from "Barney Miller".

[–] NMBtoNYC 18 years ago

I can't understand why Molly Picon is not credited in this film. Does that mean she wasn't SAG at the time? She has a key scene in the film and is at the very least a day player.

[–] vinery1-138-683697 8 years ago

I recognized Mr. Gregory. Also the fella at the telephone connection lines was in Christmas Vacation.

[–] vbpruden 18 years ago

Wikipedia says that there is a rumor that it was shelley Winters. Looking at photos of dexter from the movie and photos of winters it seems possible.

[–] liscarkat-2 17 years ago

The photo also resembles Dolores Moran.

[–] shemp56 15 years ago

Dolores Moran was an incredably beautiful woman. I don't think I spotted her in this movie.

[–] fredcdobbsjr 17 years ago

No way was it Shelley Winters. Shelley was never that pretty.

[–] mitch329 14 years ago

In reply to fredcdobbsjr, I don't know if it was Shelly Winters, but she was that pretty in 1947 when The Naked City was filmed.

[–] mousalope 13 years ago

Definitely not Shelley Winters. First you get to see an autopsy photo of the lower face. Even without seeing above the nose you can tell that isn't Shelley. Shelley had a proportionally squater and rounder face then the person shown.

Soon after there is a scene showing a NY newspaper with the victim's photo on the front page. Again, it's clearly not Shelley.

[–] Ethereal-Cloud 13 years ago

I think it was a dummy, the hair looked like a bad wig too.

[–] miriamwebster 12 years ago

Gregg Sherwood (who is listed as having uncredited role).

For the record, the actress who sells detective root beer and provides some info is uncredited Yiddish theater star Celia Adler (mistakenly identified as Molly Picon), and Adler is also misidentified as the dress store manager. Imdb credits on this one are something of a mess.

[–] nycruise-1 11 years ago

No - Molly Picon was definitely in the movie. Anyone who knows Molly's work can tell it's her. THAT accent.

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[–] schappe1 10 years ago

Celia Adler:

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7362/9036779519_6496429f87_z.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Adler

Molly Picon:
http://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/childrenandyiddishtheater/files/2014/05/M ollyPicon.jpeg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Picon

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