12:39 PM PST 1/14/2018 by
Jean Porter with Lou Costello in the 1945 comedy 'Abbott and Costello in Hollywood'
She appeared in such movies as 'Bathing Beauty' and 'The Youngest Profession' before marrying blacklisted filmmaker Edward Dmytryk, one of the Hollywood Ten.
Jean Porter, a petite and vivacious supporting player in such 1940s MGM movies as Bathing Beauty, The Youngest Profession and Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble, has died. She was 95.
Porter died Saturday of natural causes in Canoga Park, California, her daughter Rebecca Dmytryk told The Hollywood Reporter.
Porter was married to writer-director Edward Dmytryk, one of the Hollywood Ten, from May 1948 - shortly after he had landed in trouble with the blacklist - until his death in 1999 at age 90.
The two met after Porter had replaced Shirley Temple in his film Till the End of Time (1946), and they also worked together on her final feature, The Left Hand of God (1955), starring Humphrey Bogart and Gene Tierney.
A native of Texas, Porter appeared in such Westerns as Home in Wyomin' 1942) and Heart of the Rio Grande (1942) with Gene Autry and in San Fernando Valley (1944) opposite Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
She was Lou Costello's manicurist girlfriend in Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945) and Richard Erdman's ill-fated love interest, Darlene, in the great Bunker Hill-set film noir Cry Danger (1951), starring Dick Powell.