Jeanine Basinger

Biography

American film historian who was the Corwin-Fuller professor of film studies at Wesleyan University and the founder and curator of the university's cinematic archives.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

female

Known Credits

24

Birth Date

1936-02-03 00:00:00

Birth Place

Ravenden, Arkansas

Known For

• 

  Murnau, Borzage and Fox
• 

  Jezebel: Legend of the South
• 

  Dean Martin: King of Cool
• Old Acquaintance: A Classic Woman's Picture
• 

  Frank Capra: Mr. America
• 

  Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

Credits

• actors (23 credits)

  • William Wyler: Forty Takes Willy

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Frank Capra: Mr. America

    Self - Film Historian and Founder of the Frank Capra Archive

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Dean Martin: King of Cool

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • An American Named Kazan

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Casting By

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It with You

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Murnau, Borzage and Fox

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Frank Capra, Jr. Remembers... 'American Madness'

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Wanderlust

    Herself

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Jezebel: Legend of the South

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • The Man Who Came to Dinner: Inside a Classic Comedy

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Old Acquaintance: A Classic Woman's Picture

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Cary Grant: A Class Apart

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2003
  • Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • A Better Way to Die

    Sexton's Wife

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • On Cukor

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2000
  • Frank Capra's American Dream

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1997

• production (1 credits)

  • Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

    co-producer

    production
    2000