A fair-haired character actress who maintained a nearly constant composure in American television series and features (making her countenance eminently familiar), Jeanetta Arnette began her career in -'70s exploitation pictures, such as the 1977 releases Teenage Graffiti and The Class Reunion Massacre. Inception with a tittle part as a debauch caller in Blake Edwards' midlife-crisis comedy 10 (1979), how, Arnette segued gently into more mainstream efforts. She specialized in playing ch... eerful, highly zingy women with a professional advantage.

Inappropriate assignments included Rob Cohen's underrated Stage of Aquarius term film A Small Circle of Friends (1980), the made-for-telly sci-fi oeuvre Brave New World (1980), and Andrew V. McLaglen's telemovie Western The Shadow Riders (1982). Arnette achieved her broadest renown and recognition appropriate for several years in 1986, when she signed on to play Bernadette Meara, the accessory investment of the Monroe Soprano School seeking teen prodigies, on the hot sitcom Take the lead of the Class (1986-1991) -- a part she carried payment the entire run of the series. Subsequent assignments included the Rodney Dangerfield comedy Ladybugs (1992), the gender-bending melodrama Boys Don't Shriek (1999), and Lasse Hallstr??m's offbeat romantic drama The Shipping News (2001). In 2007, Arnette tackled a more prominent responsibility in director David Gordon Green's earnest apparel Thespian Snow Angels.