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Jane Greer (September 9, 1924 - August 24, 2001)
was a movie actress who was perhaps best known for
her role as femme fatale Kathie Moffat in Out of
the Past (1947).

The five-foot five Greer began life as Bettejane
Greer in Washington D.C.. A beauty-contest winner
and professional model from her teens, Greer began
her show business career as a big band singer. 
Howard Hughes spotted Greer modeling on the cover
of Life magazine on June 8, 1942 and sent her to
Hollywood to become an actress. She married Rudy
Vallee, her senior by 22 years, the same year. 
Hughes lent out the actress to RKO to star in many
films including Dick Tracy (1945), Out of the
Past, The Falcon's Alibi (1946), They Won't
Believe Me (1947), and the comedy/suspense film
and The Big Steal (1949) alongside Out of the Past
co-star Robert Mitchum. Hughes refused to let her
work for a time; when she finally begain film
acting again, she appeared in The Prisoner of
Zenda (1952), The Clown (1953), Run for the Sun
(1956), The Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), Where
Love Has Gone (1964) and The Outfit (1973). In
1984 she was cast in Against All Odds, a remake of
Out of the Past, playing Rachel Ward's mother. She
also participated in an Out of the Past parody on
TV's Saturday Night Live with her original costar
Robert Mitchum. 

Her son Lawrence Lasker is a movie producer. He
has coproduced several films, including WarGames
(1983) and Sneakers (movie)|Sneakers (1992). 

Greer died of cancer at the age of 76 in 2001.

== Marriages ==

She was married to Rudy Vallee (1943 - 1944)
(divorced) and to Edward Lasker (1947 - 1963)
(divorced). She had three children with Lasker.