Viv says on 1/Apr/06
Yes, Jean was about 5'2". I've heard anything from 5'1 3/4"-5'2 1/2" for her. Rosalind Russell gave a great quote on her first meeting with Jean: "I remember sitting under a hair dryer," wrote Russell, "and sitting next to me was a child, also under a dryer. She was wearing shorts, and her little baby legs, perfectly formed, rested against the back of her chair while the nails of her little baby hands were being manicured. My word, I thought, a ten- or eleven-year-old having that bright red polish put on, and suddenly the hood of the dryer went back and the child stood up and it was Jean. She was probably twenty-three at the time, but without any makeup and no eyebrows, she looked exactly like a little kid."

Cliff says on 31/Mar/06
This is about right for her. She had very small feet (size 3-1/2) to top it off. Btw, It appears my first post here (The one S. is replying to) was mistakenly erased?

S says on 17/Mar/06
Ginger Rogers was 5'4.5" and she was in her first film in 1929 so they weren't all short!