Elaine Shepard (Actor)

Reviews of Elaine Shepard Movies

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Movies starring Elaine Shepard have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 61%.

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo - released in 1944 - is Elaine Shepard's highest rated movie, with a score of 71% based on 30 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Elaine Shepard is The Falcon in Danger - released in 1943 - with a score of 51% based on 1 reviews.

Actor Biography

Elaine Elizabeth Shepard (April 2, 1913 – September 6, 1998) was a Broadway and film actress in the 1930s and 1940s. She was also the author of The Doom Pussy, a semi-fictional account of aviation in the Vietnam War.

Shepard's first film appearance was in the 1936 Republic serial Darkest Africa, in which she played Valerie Tremaine, the heroine of the film. This was followed with a series of leading roles in other minor films, such as You Can't Fool Your Wife, a 1940 comedy starring Lucille Ball. She then had several minor roles in major films, including playing a secretary in Topper and uncredited roles in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and the 1946 Ziegfeld Follies. A more prominent role came in Seven Days Ashore, a musical in which she plays the principal love interest for the band of sailors on shore leave.

Shepard also had some minor appearances on Broadway, including a part in the 1940 Cole Porter musical Panama Hattie.

Shepard abandoned acting and turned to freelance journalism. She is best known in this role for her Vietnam War coverage, which became the basis for her 1967 book The Doom Pussy, recounting her experiences with aviators in the early part of the war. This book includes an early use of the phrase "the whole nine yards".

Elaine Shepard has acted in films with Irving Bacon, Moroni Olsen, Eddie Dunn and Etienne Girardot.

Elaine Shepard has worked with these film directors: William Clemens, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Z. McLeod and Elliott Nugent.