Jean Alexander

Jean Alexander began her acting career while in high school in Rochester Soon after graduation she joined Stanley Woolfs Civic Drama Guild of New York for a carandtruck tour of Junior Miss 1945 and just months after WWII she was touring the South Pacific in Petticoat Fever with the USO In New York she trained as an actor with such luminaries as Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg and became a Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio in 1951 Jean played on off and offoff Broadway She was featured in several films including the noir classic The Mob 1951 Her TV credits include most goldenera primetime drama anthologies including The United States Steel Hour 1953 The Philco Television Playhouse 1948 Kraft Theatre 1947 and Studio One in Hollywood 1948 as well as serials such as Decoy 1957 Martin Kane 1949 Ryans Hope 1975 and Quincy ME 1976 She made hundreds of TV commercials and was best known as The Savarin Girl for over five years of awardwinning work for Savarin Coffee on NBCs Saturday Night News 195055 Jean was onesixth of The Improvisors along with Larry Blyden and Ross Martin who appeared for a season on one of the very first improv TV shows What Happens Now for New Yorks WORTV 194950 her own local NY show Jean Alexanders Pet Party on Channel 7 received an NYU award for best childrens program She most recently appeared in the films Old Days 2008 2008another award winner Chicken 2008 and Underwear 2009 2009 which won three filmfestival awards Her last performances were in video sketches for HBO and The Onion 201011 Jean married Jules Alexander in 1950 and divorced in 1952 She married Arnold Schulman in 1954 the marriage ended in divorce in 1974