生于美国盐湖城，3岁时因父母离异而被母亲带到好莱坞。4岁时便得以有机会在银幕露面。曾先后为福斯公司以及哥伦比亚和派拉蒙拍过多部影片。1947年，她以在《农家女》中的出色表演而获得第二十届奥斯卡最佳女主角奖。1949年她以《到马厩去》再次获得奥斯卡最佳女主角提名。1953...
Jeanne Bates began her acting career while a student at San Mateo Junior College, appearing on radio soap operas in San Francisco. She played the lead in an airwave mystery series, Lew X. Lansworth's "Whodunit" (Bates' scream was the show's "signature"), which became so successful that it (and Bates) moved to Hollywood in 1941. Bates and Lansworth married in 1943. By the time the two were married, Bates was already under contract to Columbia Pictures, where she debuted in a Boston Blackie mystery.
