Eleanor Stewart

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Eleanor Stewart (2 February 1913 - 4 July 2007), was an

American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s, appearing mostly in western

Stewart attended Northwestern University, and after winning

a talent contest, moved to Hollywood in the mid-1930s. Initially on contract

with MGM, she eventually worked freelance for various studios, starring often

as the heroine opposite Bob Steele, Tex Ritter, Jack Randall, Bob Custer, Ken

Maynard and Tom Keene, among others. She is probably best known for her role in

the serial The Fighting Devil Dogs, which was released throughout 1938. During

the 1940s she did three Hopalong Cassidy films.

During World War II, she was a Gray Lady volunteer at the

Veterans Administration Hospital in Los Angeles. She was also a voice actor and

a writer. She was the author of A Fair Vision, a book about the Pilgrims. Her

career spanned a total of thirty six films. Retiring from film in the 1940s,

her last role of the era was in the 1944 Hopalong Cassidy film Mystery Man. She

had no acting roles until 1979, when she played a small role in the film The

Orphan.

Twice married, she had one child, a daughter, Karen

Peterson, from her first marriage to MGM publicity man Les Peterson. Her second

marriage was to Maurice Greiner, from 1991 until her death. She died from

complications of Alzheimer's disease, at the age of 94.

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