Biography for
Jean Rogers (I) More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

25 March 1916, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA

Date of Death

24 February 1991, Sherman Oaks, California, USA (aftermath of surgery)

Birth Name

Eleanor Lovegren

Mini Biography

Leading lady in 30s and 40s Hollywood low-budgeters. She is best remembered as Dale Arden, the hero's girlfriend, in two of the three "Flash Gordon" serials of that era. ( Carol Hughes portrayed Dale Arden in the third.)

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Mini Biography

Massachusetts-born Jean Rogers had hoped to study art in New York and Europe upon graduation from high school, but her plans changed when she won a national beauty contest in 1933 and was offered a contract by a Hollywood producer. She was soon signed by Warner Bros., and a year later jumped ship to Universal. She began appearing in several of the studios' serials, with 1936's "Flash Gordon" being her most fondly remembered role. Given her delicate blond beauty and the skimpy outfits she wore, it was no wonder she was lusted after so fiercely by archvillain Ming the Merciless (and most of the male audience). Universal took her out of the serial unit and put her in a string of B pictures. Unsatisfied with the way her career was going, and the fact that the studio refused to give her a raise, she left Universal for 20th Century Fox in 1939. Two years later the spunky Rogers left Fox for the same reasons she left Universal, and signed with MGM, where she found the treatment more to her liking. She walked off the Culver City lot in 1943 when studio boss Louis B. Mayer discovered that she planned to get married, and forbade her to do so. Althugh she freelanced over the next few years, nothing much really came of it, and after making "The Second Woman" in 1951, she retired to raise her family.

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Spouse

Dan Winkler

(1943 - 1970) (his death)