Eleanor Parker in Home from the Hill

In 1960, Eleanor Parker and Robert Mitchum made their only screen appearance together in Home from the Hill. The film also featured career-making performances from two young actors, George Peppard and George Hamilton.

Home from the Hill is a two and half hour CinemaScope epic and Eleanor Parker, though she does not receive all that much screen-time, plays an integral role. She does a Southern accent in the movie and handles it quite well. Eleanor Parker shares most of her scenes with fellow screen veteran Robert Mitchum (it's a shame the two couldn't have done something else together), but also has great scenes with George Peppard and George Hamilton. All in all it's a fantastic film and Eleanor Parker's presence only serves to enhance the proceedings.

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Here is a contemporary magazine review of Home from the Hill:

A pair of original newspaper advertisements for the Home from the Hill:

Here are some images of Eleanor Parker in Home from the Hill (click to view full size):

Eleanor Parker and Robert Mitchum

Eleanor Parker and George Peppard

Eleanor Parker gets passionately angry

Three Secrets promotional photographs

In 1950, Eleanor Parker starred in the movie Three Secrets alongside two other actresses in the Warner Bros stable, Patricia Neal and Ruth Roman. The film, a heavy soaper concerning three women who each gave up a baby boy for adoption, may just have been excuse to exercise the talents of three wonderful actresses but is nonetheless an enjoyable melodrama. The following is a collection of promotional images for Three Secrets, with an emphasis on Eleanor Parker and her various co-stars.



Here are some pictures of Eleanor Parker with her Three Secrets co-star Patricia Neal:

A picture of Eleanor Parker with her other Three Secrets co-star, Ruth Roman:

A trio of pics of Eleanor Parker and Leif Erickson:

And finally a pair of images with Eleanor Parker and actress Katherine Warren:

Eleanor Parker: various trailer billings 1944-1961

Way back when, movie trailers very often displayed the names of stars. One reason for this was so fans would know for sure that their favorite actor or actress was in the film. Another reason was probably also so one could more readily connect names and faces of new and established screen personalities. Anyways, the following is a collection of images of the name and face of Eleanor Parker appearing in various movie trailers.

Between Two Worlds (1944)

The Very Thought of You (1944)

Of Human Bondage (1946)

Never Say Goodbye (1946)

Escape Me Never (1947)

The Voice of the Turtle (1947)

Chain Lightning (1950)

Caged (1950)

Detective Story (1951)

Scaramouche (1951)

Above and Beyond (1952)

Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)

Valley of the Kings (1954)

Many Rivers to Cross (1955)

Interrupted Melody (1955)

Lizzie (1957)

The Seventh Sin (1957)

Home from the Hill (1960)

Return to Peyton Place (1961)

Eleanor Parker in Valley of the Kings

In 1954, Eleanor Parker made two outstanding adventure-romance films: The Naked Jungle with Charlton Heston and Valley of the Kings with Robert Taylor. Valley of the Kings re-teamed Eleanor Parker and Eleanor Parker following the 1952 film Above and Beyond (they would be paired onscreen again in 1955's Many Rivers to Cross) and the two have great chemistry here.

In Valley of the Kings, Eleanor Parker plays the daughter of a famous archaeologist who is following-up on her dead father's dreams of proving ties between Egyptology and biblical lore. She contacts Robert Taylor, a hardworking archaeologist (who she later finds was a protege of her father's), to begin searching for the tomb of Rahotep. All the while they are accompanied by Eleanor Parker's somewhat sinister husband (played by Carlos Thompson) as the action unfolds in the heart of Egypt.

Eleanor Parker and Carlos Thompson