Jacqueline White

Jacqueline Jane White (born November 27, 1922) is an American actress perhaps best remembered for her appearances in Crossfire and The Narrow Margin. She worked for both MGM and RKO in the 1940's and 1950's.

White was born on November 7, 1922, to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Garrison White.Her cousin, Frank Knox, was a Secretary of the Navy. She was from Beverly Hills, California. She attended Beverly Hills High School and the University of California, Los Angeles.

White and actress Lynn Merrick were childhood friends until White moved. They were reunited when both were in the cast of Three Hearts for Julia (1943).

White's film debut resulted from her work in a drama class at UCLA. A casting director saw her in a production of Ah, Wilderness! and arranged for a screen test for her. That led to her first film appearance, in Song of Russia (1944).

White usually played either lead actresses in B-movies or supporting parts in A-movies. She usually played the main character, and one of her biggest movies was Mystery in Mexico. White was under contract to both Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she was cast mostly in uncredited small roles, then RKO appearing in two classics, Crossfire and The Narrow Margin.

White's first lead was in "Air Raid Wardens" (1943) with Laurel and Hardy. Then, her first western film came in the 1950's when she left MGM for RKO and starred in Return of the Bad Men.

On November 12, 1948, White married Neal Bruce Anderson in Westwood Hills. She retired from film in 1950. She relocated to Wyoming with her husband, who started an oil business. When she returned to Los Angeles for the birth of her first child, she was spotted in the RKO commissary, visiting friends, by director Richard Fleischer and producer Stanley Rubin, who offered her a co-starring role in The Narrow Margin (1952).

Still active as of 2005, White appears occasionally at film conventions. In 2013, she made an appearance at the annual TCM Film Festival.

After leaving her acting days behind and raising a family, Jacqueline White has four sons and one daughter. Her husband, Bruce, passed away in the year 2000 and White currently resides in Houston, Texas with family.