Jean Peters

She died of Leukemia in 2000. A further album, The Four Marys, a collection of traditional celtic folk songs, followed in 1998. Peters remarried after divorcing Hughes, and returned to acting with a few roles on television. She left Ruby Blue, which sank into obscurity, and concentrated on her acting career, starring in Mamet's plays and films - first the film Homicide, then in the play Oleanna, a part written for her. Returning to music in 1994, she released the solo album The Raven, followed by New York Girls' Club. She would state only that she had not seen Hughes for several years before their divorce. In the mid and late 1980s she was the main element of the folk/pop band Ruby Blue, but after meeting David while acting in his play Speed the Plow, became his wife in 1991. The usually-paranoid Hughes surprised his aides when he did not insist on a confidentiality agreement from Peters; aides reported Peters was one of the few people Hughes never disparaged. Peters refused to discuss her life with Hughes, and declined several lucrative offers to do so. Rebecca Pidgeon is an actress, singer, songwriter and the wife of playwright David Mamet.

She agreed to a lifetime alimony payment of US$70,000 annually, adjusted for inflation, and she waived all claims to Hughes' estate. In 1971, Peters and Hughes divorced. She retired from acting during the marriage. In 1957, Peters married Howard Hughes, shortly before he faded from public view and became an eccentric recluse.

He thought Peters had the right blend of sex appeal and the tough-talking, streetwise characteristics he was seeking, and that Monroe was too innocent looking for the role. Director Samuel Fuller chose Peters over Marilyn Monroe for the part of Candy in 1953's Pickup On South Street. Her first film, 1947's Captain from Castile with Tyrone Power was a hit, and Leonard Maltin writes that afterwards Peters spent the new decade playing "sexy spitfires, often in period dramas and Westerns." [1] (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0676492/bio). After competing in a beauty contest in 1946, Peters went to Hollywood to pursue an acting career.

Elizabeth Jean Peters (born October 15, 1926 in Canton, Ohio, died October 13, 2000) was an American actress.