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By Kirk Crivello f It was, she remembers wistfully, “like a fairy tale come true,” barely into her teens in 1932 when she started at MGM - Jean Parker was a very young Cinderella, far more excited about the ball she was having than about any Prince Charming . . . though surely he, too, would appear on the scene before the clock struck midnight on her career! She didn’t even think about time, ticking away in the next two decades as she faced the cameras with “just about every star I had idolized” . . . particularly such great ones as the Barrymores, Gary Cooper, Marion Davies, Katherine Hepburn, Charles Boyer and Robert Donat - all whom she remembers fondly in her warmest memories of those vanished yester-years. No Cinderella of any age ever arrived in a more golden coach drawn by more spirited prancing horses! Today, busy, Jean Parker has little time or inclination for daydreaming about the dozens of films she headlined or the thousands of fan letters and gifts she once receiced. But join her, as we did, on a sunny Thursday afternoon in her lovely home in Eagle Rock, near where it all started, Pasadena, and her face lights up with the same youthful radiance as she talks of her past glories. Born Mae Green on August 11, her actual birthplace, she explains, was Butte, Montana. “I thought Deer Lodge sounded more romantic for my JEAN PARKER TODAY - about to resume her film career which started as a teen-ager during Hollywood’s golden age at MGM. JEAN PARKER teen-age actress on the comeback trail studio biography.” She was discovered by Ida Koverman, secretary to Louis B. Mayer, when her photo appeared in the LA Times as 1st prize winner of an art poster exhibit while attending Pasadena High School. “MGM,” Jean Parker recalls, “put me in a Jean Harlow dress and curled my hair for my screen test.” There were featured roles in DIVORCE IN THE FAMILY, SECRET OF MADAME BLANCHE, MADE ON BROADWAY, and a showy role with Lional Barrymore in RASPUTIN AND THE EMPRESS. She was loaned to Columbia for Frank Capra’s LADY FOR A DAY and WHAT PRICE INNOCENCE; to RKO for George 9