Jeanette Rollins

born: 03 April 1923 San Luis Obispo County, California, United States of America

died: 10 January 1990 Los Angeles County, California, United States of America (age 66)

Red-haired American actress and singer, the younger sister of Fred Rollins and Dolly Rollins. Her parents were Dessie Margaret (née Karns, 1898-1964) and musician/actor Charles Rollin Smith (1897-1986), who married in 1916. Jeanette continued to work on stage and in films, television, and radio as an actress and soprano singer into adulthood. In 1954, she married James Cletus Gates (1925-2011), with whom she had a daughter; they divorced in 1966. Jeanette is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California.

Real name: Jeanette Josephine Smith

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

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1930 Shivering Shakespeare [?] MISCELLANEOUS (click any image to enlarge) Acknowledgements: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V25P-3BS (CA Birth Index) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCZY-CHS (1930 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9CT-3QN (1940 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XGX-DDNJ (1950 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XGX-7MHY (1950 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K86Z-D2G (1954 marriage) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPYH-SKC (1966 divorce) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP8K-BKF (CA Death Index) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85881584 (Find a Grave) https://archive.org/details/whos-who-1931-02/whos-who-1931-02_images/whos-who-1931-02_020.jpeg (Who's Who Children's Casting Directory, Feb-Mar 1931) https://archive.org/details/whos-who-1931-11/whos-who-1931-11_images/whos-who-1931-11_022.jpeg (Who's Who Children's Casting Directory, Nov 1931-Jan 1932) https://archive.org/details/whos-who-1931-11/whos-who-1931-11_images/whos-who-1931-11_023.jpeg (Who's Who Children's Casting Directory, Nov 1931-Jan 1932) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1093641525/ (Daily Breeze [Torrance, CA], 11 Feb 1931) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1092096607/ (South Bay Daily Breeze, 26 Aug 1931) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/621331769/ (Redondo Reflex, 28 Aug 1931) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/689255181/ (Daily News [Los Angeles, CA], 17 May 1941) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/380841178/ (Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1943) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/380735916/ (Los Angeles Times, 30 Jun 1946) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/381339102/ (Los Angeles Times, 13 Jun 1948) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1345733682/ (Los Angeles Examiner, 13 Jun 1948) https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DNLA19500124.1.19 (Daily News [Los Angeles, CA], 24 Jan 1950) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/385663057/ (Los Angeles Times, 03 Jun 1951) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/175232883/ (Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan 1990) "Kelts' Geographical Directory: Los Angeles, September, 1927, Vol. 2" -- EAST 65th - 154 - Smith Rollin - TH 6938 [same phone no. in casting directory] 1929 L.A. City Dir.: Smith Chas R (Dessie) musician h154 E 65th http://theluckycorner.com/rmt/095.html (Robert Demoss/The Lucky Corner) Jesse Brisson (bio notes and research) This page was last updated on: 17 September 2026