Jean Carmen (she altered her surname) was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1934, the last year they were named.

She also worked in radio and on Broadway, in Stage Door and the original 1939 production of The Man Who Came to Dinner (as a replacement for the role of June Stanley[4]).

Newspapers and the August 14, 1932 marriage license indicate their wedding ceremony was at the beach home of Constance Talmadge in Santa Monica, California.

Guy died in 1985, after which his mother sold her Greenwich, Connecticut home and re-located to Charleston, South Carolina.

[6][7] In 1945, Jean and Irish Owen authored the comedy Last House on the Left and there was a pre-Broadway tryout in Hartford, Connecticut.