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Jo Ann Marlowe
15 Dec 1935 – 2 Jan 1991
| Birth | 15 Dec 1935 |
| Death | 2 Jan 1991 |
| Cemetery | San Fernando Mission Cemetery Mission Hills , Los Angeles County , California , USA |
| Added by | Shock on 18 Jan 2015 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90310859 |
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From S-sidemost E/W-running drive adjacent to exterior mausoleums, walk northbound across lawn from Curb #277 (located in E-half of section) for nineteen rows.
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Child Actress. Born Jo Ann Mares in Schuyler, Nebraska to Edward and Theora Mares. Jo Ann was discovered on a family vacation in Hollywood at age 4 by a Warner Brothers director in a restaurant. Relocating the family to California, the little actress adopted the stage name Jo Ann Marlowe. Her career would cover the next 10 years and 29 motion pictures including Yankee Doodle Dandy which won an Oscar for James Cagney. She played the role of 6 year old Josie Cohan. She might be best known as the younger daughter, Kay, in Mildred Pierce. She left acting in the early 1950s and went on to law school at Loyola University in Los Angeles and became a lawyer. She was a Chief Trial Lawyer for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. In September, 1960 she married John F. Dunne in California. The couple had a daughter, who was born in 1963. The couple divorced in April 1968 in Los Angeles. In late 1968 she suffered injuries in a car accident which brought on a cerebral hemorrhage, she was left in a comatose state for the next 22 years. She would die at her mother's home in Los Angeles at the age of 55.
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