Leading Ladies Mona Freeman
Black Beauty/ Anne Wendon
Copper Canyon/ Caroline Desmond
The Road To Denver/ Elizabeth Sutton
Angel Face/ Mary Wilton
Per Quinlan's Film Stars:
Pretty, chubby cheeked, blue eyed blonde American actress, very popular as brattish kid sisters and teenaged spitfires in the forties. She found herself repeating the role well into her twenties and found it difficult to settle into routine herione roles in the fifties.
Mona Freeman was born at Baltimore, MD in 1926.
She was a model while in high school and after becoming the first "Miss Subway" of the New York Transit System, eventually signed a movie contract with Howard Hughes., but later the contract was sold to Paramount Studios.
Her film debut came in 1944 in Till We Meet Again.
Ms, Freeman became a popular teenage film star. After a number of these type roles she became afraid of being typecast in these roles which could hurt her future career.
Becoming adult age, her film career slowed and she generally was appearing in "B" type movies. One noted film that she starred in was the film noir Angel Face made in 1953 where she portrayed the role of Mary Wilton.
Some of the film roles of Mona Freeman were:
Till We Meet Again (1944) as Elise
National Velvet (1944) as A Schoolgirl
Together Again (944) as Diana Crandall
Roughly Speaking (1945) as Barbara, Age 15 - 20
Junior Miss (1945) as Lois Graves
Danger Signal (1945) as Anne Fenchurch
Black Beauty (1946) as Anne Wendon
That Brennan Girl (1946) as Ziggy Brennan
Dear Ruth (1947) as Miriam Wilkins
Mother Wore Tights (1947) as Iris
Varaiety Girl (1947) as Mona Freeman
Isn't It Romantic? (1948) as Susie Cameron
Streets Of Laredo (1949) as Rannie Carter
The Heiress (1949) as Marian Almond
Dear Wife (1949) as Miriam Wilkins
I Was A Shoplifter (1950) as faye Burton
Copper Canyon (1950) as Caroline Desmond
Branded (1950) as Ruth Laverly
Dear Brat (1951) as Mirian Wilkins
Darling, How Could You? (1951) as Amy
The Lady From Texas (1951) as Bonnie Lee
Flesh And Fury (1952) as Anne Hollis
Jumping Jacks (1952) as Betsy Carter
Thunderbirds (1952) as Lt. Ellen Henderson
Angel Face (1953) as Mary Wilton
Battle Cry (1955) as Kathy - later Mrs. Danny Forrester
Shadow Of Fear (1955) as April Haddon
The Road To Denver (1955) as Elizabeth Sutton
The Way Out ( 1955) as Terry Moffat Carradine
Hold Back The Night ( 1956) as Anne Franklin McKenzie
Huk! (1956) as Cindy Rogers
Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957) as Ann Bradley
The World Was His Jury (1958) as Robin Carson
Welcome Home Johnny Bristol (1962-TV) as Mrs. Bristol
Her film career ended in the late 1950's with one future TV movie. She then continued to act on television.
Ms. Freeman was active on television appearing in such programs as Chevron Theater, Damon Runyon Theater, Celebrity Playhouse, Front Row Center, Zane Grey Theater, The Ford Television Theater, The 20th Century Fox Hour, Lux Video Theater, The O. Henry Playhouse, Studio 57, Schlitz Playhouse Of Stars, Matinee Theater, Climax!, Wagon Train, Playhouse 90, Pursuit, The Red Skelton Hour, Wanted Dead Or Alive, The Dupont Show With June Allyson, Riverboat, Maverick, The Millionaire, Johnny Ringo, The Chevy Mystery Show, Boris Karloff's Thriller, Michael Shayne, Checkmate, The Tall Man, The United States Steel Hour, Perry Mason and Branded.
She appeared seven times on The United States Steel Hour and three times on Perry Mason
Ms. Freeman became a portrait painter and after 1961 she concentrated on her painting.
Her best known portrait was that of Mary See, the founder of See's candies.
She was married twice. H
Her first husband was Pat Nerney, a Los Angeles car dealer. The marriage lasted from 1945 until 1952 when the couple divorced. This marriage produced one child.
Her second marriage was to H. Jack Ellis and lasted from 1961 until his death in 1992.
Mone Freeman passed away in 2014 at age 87 after a long illness at her Beverly Hills home.
I enjoyed Ms Freemen in the films Black Beauty, That Brennan Girl, Streets Of Laredo, Copper Canyon, Branded, Jumping Jacks, Angel Face and Battle Cry.
Louie The Movie Buff