LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jean Parker, the lovely brunette star of "Sequoia," "Little Women," "The Ghost Goes West" and other hit films of the 1930s and '40s, died Nov. 30. She was 90.
Parker died of complications from a stroke at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital, her son, Robert Hanks, told the Los Angeles Times. He said she had lived at the retirement home since 1998.
The 5-foot-3-inch actress made her debut in 1932 as the Duchess Maria in "Rasputin and the Empress."
She went on to play ingenues in such other MGM films as "The Secret of Madame Blanche," "Operator 13" and "Gabriel over the White House."
Her most prestigious films were made by other studios: Frank Capra's "Lady for a Day," Rene Clair's "The Ghost Goes West" and "Little Women," the heralded film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's literary classic.
The Butte, Mont., native also coached young actors for a time in the 1970s, but eventually became known in Hollywood as a recluse.