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Jeannie Bell

Actor

Jeannie Bell

Born November 23, 1944 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA14 films

Born Annie Lee Morgan in St. Louis, Missouri, Jeannie is a former Playboy Playmate of the Month (October 1969) and was only the second African American woman to feature in this role. She also became the first-ever African American to actually grace the magazine's cover of their January 1970 issue. Bell later had a career as an actress in movies, most prominently in TNT Jackson (1975), in which she played the title character, and supporting roles in Mean Streets and The Klansman, as well as occasional TV appearances. She retired from show business for good after a second pictorial in Playboy in 1979 and, in 1986, married multi-millionaire businessman Gary Judis after 8 years of courtship. The two have one son.

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Mean Streets posterFirst watchMean Streets19737.0as DianeA small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.View film

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Filmography

14 films as actor
  1. 1977The ChoirboysFanny Forbes
  2. 1977Casanova & Co.Fatme
  3. 1976The MuthersKelly
  4. 1976Disco 9000Karen (as Jeanie Bell)
  5. 1974The KlansmanMary Anne
  6. 1974Black Is BeautifulJoyce
  7. 1974Three the Hard WayPolly
  8. 1974TNT JacksonDiana 'T.N.T.' Jackson (as Jeanne Bell)
  9. 1974PolicewomenPam
  10. 1973Mean StreetsDiane
  11. 1973Cleopatra JonesTerry (uncredited)
  12. 1972Black GunnLisa
  13. 1972Trouble ManLeona
  14. 1972MelindaJean