page_title: Jean Peters
section_title: Final films
hierarchical_section_title: Jean Peters / Career / Final films
caption_attribution_description: Jean Peters in a screenshot from the trailer for the film w:en:Broken Lance.
context_page_description: Elizabeth Jean Peters was an American actress. She is known as a star of 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and as the second wife of Howard Hughes. Although possibly best remembered for her siren role in Pickup on South Street, Peters was known for her resistance to being turned into a sex symbol. She preferred to play unglamorous, down-to-earth women.
context_section_description: Other 1954 films co-starring Peters were the westerns Apache (borrowed by Warner Bros) and Broken Lance. Although Broken Lance did not attract much attention, she was critically acclaimed for her performance in Apache. One critic praised her for "giving an excellent account for herself", declaring she was "on her way to becoming one of the finest young actresses around Hollywood today."
  Peters' next (and ultimately final) film was A Man Called Peter (1955), in which she played Catherine Marshall, the wife of Peter Marshall, a Presbyterian minister and Chaplain of the United States Senate. After the release of A Man Called Peter, Peters refused several roles, for which she was placed on suspension by the studio.
caption: Peters in the trailer for the film Broken Lance (1954)
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