Actress Jane Randolph Dies

Andrew Porter alerts us to the fact that actress Jane Randolph died of complications from a broken hip in Gstaad, Switzerland on 4 May 2009. Born Jane Roermer on 30 October 1915 in Youngstown, Ohio, she moved to Hollywood in 1939 to break into acting. She was a cheesecake pin-up before landing her first film role in 1941. She became a leading lady came in 1942's Highways by Night, and a star as Alice Moore in Cat People (1942).

She appeared in fewer than two dozen films. Her other genre roles include appearances in: The Curse of the Cat People (1944) and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), which was her last credited film role.

In 1949, she married sometime producer Jaime del Amo and retired to Spain to live the the life of a socialite. In later years she returned to Los Angeles, but also maintained a home in Switzerland.