Jeanne Bates began her acting career while a student at San Mateo Junior College, appearing on radio soap operas in San Francisco. She played the lead in an airwave mystery series, Lew X. Lansworth's "Whodunit" moved to Hollywood in 1941. Bates and Lansworth married in 1943. By the time the two were married, Bates was already under contract to Columbia Pictures, where she debuted in a Boston Blackie mystery.
Is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.
She was a staunch conservative minded Republican.
Before she was an actress, she was a billboard and magazine model.
Was a resident of the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.
Studied acting and drama at San Mateo Junior College.
