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Jean Inness
Jean Spurney Inness (December 18, 1900 – December 27, 1978) was an American film, stage and television actress. Inness played nurse Beatrice Fain in the American medical drama television series Dr. Kildare.[1][2] Life and careerInness was born in Cleveland, Ohio.[1] She attended Bryn Mawr College,[1] and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.[3] Inness began her career in 1920 touring Indianapolis and Cincinnati with the Stuart Walker Stock Company.[1] She also starred with Stewart Walker in productions of The Cradle Snatchers and An Ideal Husband.[3] Inness performed for 34 weeks with the Denham Stock Company in Denver, Colorado, and for 26 weeks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[3] She performed at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, with leading roles in stage plays including Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Stages and Death of a Salesman.[1] Her son Jon Jory was a stage director at the Actors Theatre of Louisville.[1] In 1928, Inness was cast in the lead role of the stage play The Jest at the Pasadena Playhouse.[3] Inness played the title role in the 1940 production of Ramona, starring with Onslow Stevens.[4] Inness began her screen career in 1942, appearing in the film Not a Ladies' Man.[5] She appeared on television programs including Gunsmoke, The Andy Griffith Show, Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, Wagon Train, The Virginian, The Big Valley and Rawhide.[1] Inness played Nurse Beatrice Fain in the medical drama television series Dr. Kildare.[1][2] DeathInness died in December 1978 at her home in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 78.[1] Television
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