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Jeanine Basinger

Acting • 1936-02-03 • Ravenden, Arkansas

American film historian who was the Corwin-Fuller professor of film studies at Wesleyan University and the founder and curator of the university's cinematic archives.

Known For

A Better Way to Die

A Better Way to Die

2001

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Filmography

2025
William Wyler: Forty Takes WillyFilm
Self
★ 8.0
2023
Frank Capra: Mr. AmericaFilm
Self - Film Historian and Founder of the Frank Capra Archive
★ 6.0
2021
Dean Martin: King of CoolFilm
Self
★ 7.4
2019
An American Named KazanFilm
Self
★ 6.0
2018
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr StoryFilm
Self
★ 6.9
2015
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own WordsFilm
Self
★ 7.1
2012
Casting ByFilm
Self
★ 6.9
2010
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of HollywoodTV
Self • 7 episodes
★ 5.4
2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest YearFilm
Self
★ 7.5
2008
Murnau, Borzage and FoxFilm
Self
★ 7.0
2008
Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It with YouFilm
Self
2007
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early CinemaFilm
Self
★ 4.3
2006
WanderlustFilm
Herself
★ 5.9
2006
Jezebel: Legend of the SouthFilm
Self
★ 7.0
2006
Frank Capra, Jr. Remembers... 'American Madness'Film
Self
★ 7.0
2006
Old Acquaintance: A Classic Woman's PictureFilm
Self
★ 6.0
2006
The Man Who Came to Dinner: Inside a Classic ComedyFilm
Self
★ 6.0
2004
Cary Grant: A Class ApartFilm
Self
★ 7.1
2003
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles ChaplinFilm
Self
★ 7.0
2002
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a DancerFilm
Self
★ 7.8
2001
A Better Way to DieFilm
Sexton's Wife
★ 5.6
2001
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion DaviesFilm
Self
★ 5.0
2000
On CukorFilm
Self
★ 7.0
1997
Frank Capra's American DreamFilm
Self
★ 6.3
1994
American CinemaTV
Self • 1 episodes
★ 8.3
1988
American ExperienceTV
Self • 1 episodes
★ 6.5
1987
BiographyTV
Self - Film Historian • 1 episodes
★ 6.7
1986
American MastersTV
Self • 1 episodes
★ 7.1
1967
OmnibusTV
★ 7.2