Jacqueline Fontaine
Born: 1927-08-14 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Died: 1995-08-01
Known For: Acting
Biography
Joyce Elaine Romeo, the raven-haired daughter of Orlando and Emma Romeo of 5606 34th Avenue in Kenosha, Wisconsin, studied at the nearby McKinley Junior High School and the downtown Mary D. Bradford High School while simultaneously nurturing her dreams of performing before appreciative audiences. She made her first such appearances in Chicago clubs before coming to Los Angeles for George White's Scandals and Billy Gray's Band Box (Dorothy Kilgallen noted her in July, 1946 as a dancer at LaConga) and local television. One such telecast caught the eye of producer Ron Ormond who signed her for "Outlaw Women" (1952) without a screen test. Previously she had appeared with Mickey Rooney as "the other woman" in The Strip. Also in 1952 Jacki (as she was labeled on Crystalette Records songs) worked with Jack Carson at the Sahati's Country Club Casino in Stateline, Nevada. Bing Crosby noticed her at a Pebble Beach golf tournament and cast her in The Country Girl. Later she did live appearances with comic Lenny Kent at the Casino Lounge in the Mapes Hotel and in 1962 with Buddy Lester at New Facks and at the Losers Club in Hollywood. and by 1965 at the Jamaica Room of the West Valley Bowl and at Sunset Boulevard's Key Club. Three years later she worked as a regular in a troupe with singer-comic Duke Mitchell, and by the 1970s she was seen at Aladdin's Funny Farm, the new Nine Thousand and the Fire and Flame in North Hollywood, with billing calling her "The Performer's Performer".
Filmography
1990
- Gallant Ladies as Parente Labadens
1982
- Lorsque l'enfant parait as Charlotte Jacquet
1977
- Bilitis as Supervisor
1974
- How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby as La femme de Marcel
1972
- The Egg as (uncredited)
1969
- Under the Sign of the Bull as Louise, la domestique des Raynal
1967
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Singer (uncredited)
1966
- Murderers' Row as Singer at Wake (uncredited)
- At Theatre Tonight as Hélène
- Alvarez Kelly as Bordello Girl
1965
- Le naïf amoureux as A client
1961
- The Ladies Man as Working Girl
1959
- Born to Be Loved as Dame
1958
- Les Cinq Dernières Minutes as La réceptionniste
1956
- The Lieutenant Wore Skirts as Buxom Blonde at Party
1954
- The Country Girl as Lounge Singer
1952
- Outlaw Women as Ellen Larabee
1951
- The Strip as Frieda
- Skipalong Rosenbloom as Caroline Witherspoon
- Untamed Mistress as Velda
1950
- The Daltons' Women as Jacqueline Fontaine
1948
- Impasse of Two Angels as (uncredited)