Jean Willes is best known for her roles in a number of B movies in the 1950s and 1960s as well as on the small screen. Lovely and curvaceous, she often played hard-boiled gold-diggers, party girls, gun molls, and saloon girls. She came off as a wily, smarter version of 'Barbara Nichols , died at their Van Nuys, Calif., home in 1995. They had one son, Gerry.