Jane Greer

 Jane Greer, born Bettejane Greer (September 9, 1924 – August 24, 2001)

She was a film and television actress who was perhaps best known for her role as Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir Out of the Past. Howard Hughes spotted Greer modeling in the June 8, 1942, issue of Life magazine and sent her to Hollywood to become an actress. Hughes lent her to RKO to star in many films, including Dick Tracy (1945), Build My Gallows High (1947), They Won't Believe Me (1947) and the comedy/suspense film The Big Steal (1949), with Out of the Past co-star Robert Mitchum. She also she appeared in You're in the Navy Now (1951), The Prisoner of Zenda (1952), Run for the Sun (1956) and Man of a Thousand Faces (1957). Greer's noteworthy roles in television included guest appearances on episodes of numerous shows over the decades, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Bonanza, Quincy, M.E., Columbo, and Murder, She Wrote, among others. Greer later joined the casts of Falcon Crest in 1984 and Twin Peaks in 1990, in recurring roles. She was married twice, first to singer Rudy Vallee, then businessman Edward Lasker (both marriages ended in divorce). She had three children with Lasker. Greer died of cancer on August 24, 2001 at the age of 76, in Bel Air, Los Angeles. She was cremated, and her remains interred at Westwood Memorial Park.