Jean Parker

Actress Jean Parker died on Nov. 30 following a stroke. She was 90.
Parker is perhaps best remembered as one of the four sisters — Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, and Frances Dee were the other three (above, with Spring Byington’s Marmee) — in the George Cukor-directed 1933 version of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Although never a major star, Parker’s film career lasted more than two decades.
Much information about Jean Parker’s early years differs according to the source. She was born either Lois Mae Green (as per an IMDb bio apparently written by her son) or Louise Stephanie Zelinska (as per the Associated Press obit) in either Deer Lodge or Butte, Montana, on most probably August 11, 1915 [...]