Jane Powell
Jane Powell in Royal Wedding (1951).
Birth name	Suzanne Lorraine Burce
Born	April 1, 1929 (age 77) Portland, Oregon, USA

Jane Powell (born April 1, 1929) is an American singer, entertainer and actor. She was the petite blonde with an operatic singing voice in many MGM musicals in the 1940s and 1950s. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Royal Wedding (MGM) is a 1951 Hollywood musical comedy film set in London in 1947 at the time of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip, and stars Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah Churchill and Keenan Wynn, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... Nickname: City of Roses, Stumptown, Bridgetown, PDX Location in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: Country United States State Oregon County Multnomah County Incorporated February 8, 1851 Government  - Mayor Tom Potter Area  - City  145. ... Official language(s) None Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 9th  - Total 98,466 sq mi (255,026 km²)  - Width 260 miles (420 km)  - Length 360 miles (580 km)  - % water 2. ... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949. ... // Recovering from World War II and its aftermath, the economic miracle emerged in West Germany and Italy. ...

Early Years

Born Suzanne Lorraine Burce in Portland, Oregon, she sang on the radio as a child, and performed in theater before her film career began in 1944. She appeared in her first film, Song of the Open Road (1944), at age 15. Nickname: City of Roses, Stumptown, Bridgetown, PDX Location in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: Country United States State Oregon County Multnomah County Incorporated February 8, 1851 Government  - Mayor Tom Potter Area  - City  145. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

MGM Years

Her first MGM musical was Holiday in Mexico (1946), which brought her to the public's attention, and she was later billed as the co-star in several films including A Date with Judy (1948), and Nancy Goes to Rio (1950). 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... A Date with Judy was a American radio program during the 1940s. ...

Powell got the chance to sing and dance with Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding (1951), when she was brought in as a replacement for both June Allyson and Judy Garland. Her best known film is probably Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), which gave her the opportunity to play a more mature character than previous films. Her other films include: Rich, Young and Pretty (1951), Small Town Girl (1953), Three Sailors and a Girl (1953), Athena (1954), Deep in My Heart (1954), Hit the Deck (1955), and The Girl Most Likely (1957). In 1956 Powell recorded a song, "True Love", that rose to 107 on the pop charts, according to the Joel Whitburn compilation. This was her only single to make the charts. Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska,[1] was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. ... Royal Wedding (MGM) is a 1951 Hollywood musical comedy film set in London in 1947 at the time of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip, and stars Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah Churchill and Keenan Wynn, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay... June Allyson (October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. ... Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress, considered by many to be one of the greatest singing stars of Hollywoods Golden Era of musical film, best known for her role as Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of... Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a musical film released in 1954. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Athena was released on November 4, 1954 by M-G-M. The film stars Jane Powell as Athena Mulvain and Debbie Reynolds as Minerva Mulvane, two sisters who live with their weight-lifting grandfather Ulysses (Louis Calhern) and star-gazing grandmother Salome (Evelyn Varden) - along with their other five beautiful... Hit the Deck is a musical theater production first staged at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway on April 25, 1927. ... Joel Carver Whitburn (born November 29, 1939 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) is an American author and music historian. ...

Life After films

By the end of the 1950s, Hollywood musicals began to lose popularity, and her film career ended. Since then Powell has continued to work in television, radio, and live performances. Her stage roles include the touring productions of South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady, Carousel, The Girl Next Door and How She Grew, and Irene, in which she made her Broadway debut, following Debbie Reynolds in the title role. ... South Pacific is a musical play, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. When it first opened on Broadway on April 7, 1949, it was produced by Leland Hayward and directed by Joshua Logan. ... The Sound of Music is a Broadway musical based on the book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. ... Oklahoma! (1943) was the first musical play written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II (see Rodgers and Hammerstein). ... The original poster for the Broadway production of the show designed by Al Hirschfeld My Fair Lady is a 1956 musical theater production with lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. ... Carousel is a 1945 stage musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics) that was adapted from Ferenc Molnars play Liliom. ... Irene is a musical/comedy play that first opened on Broadway at the Vanderbilt Theatre November 18, 1919, and ran for 670 performances. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Debbie Reynolds (born April 1, 1932) is an American actress, dancer and singer. ...

Television

During the 1960s and 1970s Powell appeared regularly on television. For example, she did a stint as one of the What's My Line? Mystery Guests on the popular Sunday Night CBS-TV program. Later, Powell appeared as a guest panelist on the same show. This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... radio and United States. ...

She also played on As The World Turns as the temporary replacement for Eileen Fulton as Lisa Grimaldi in the years 1991,1993 and 1994. As the World Turns (ATWT) is the second longest-running American television soap opera (the first being Guiding Light), airing each weekday on CBS. It debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30pm. ... Eileen Fulton Eileen Fulton (born Margaret Elizabeth McLarty on September 13, 1933 in Asheville, North Carolina) is an American actress. ... Lisa Grimaldi (née Lisa Miller) is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns. ...

Current work

Powell lives in Connecticut and Manhattan, with her fifth husband, former child actor Dick Moore. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for The Actors Fund of America, and still acts and performs to the present day, most recently in a 2002 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2004, she made a return to the stage as Mama Mizner in the Stephen Sondheim musical, "Bounce." Despite Powell's great reviews in the part, "Bounce" was not critically successful and did not move to Broadway. It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ... Dickie Moore (born John Richard Moore on September 12, 1925) is a former American child actor. ... Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 DVD Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (also known as Law & Order: SVU) is the first of three spin-offs of Law & Order (the other two being Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial by Jury; all series are presented on the NBC... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Bounce is a musical by Stephen Sondheim with a libretto by John Weidman. ... Note on spelling: While most Americans use er (as per American spelling conventions), the majority of venues, performers and trade groups for live theatre use re. ...

Trivia

She has three children from her first two marriages.

Filmography

• Song of the Open Road (1944)
• Delightfully Dangerous (1945)
• Holiday in Mexico (1946)
• Luxury Liner (1948)
• Three Daring Daughters (1948)
• A Date with Judy (1948)
• Screen Snapshots: Motion Picture Mothers, Inc. (1949) (short subject)
• Nancy Goes to Rio (1950)
• Two Weeks with Love (1950)
• Royal Wedding (1951)
• Rich, Young and Pretty (1951)
• Small Town Girl (1953)
• Three Sailors and a Girl (1953)
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
• Athena (1954)
• Deep in My Heart (1954)
• 1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (1955) (short subject)
• Hit the Deck (1955)
• The Girl Most Likely (1957)
• The Female Animal (1958)
• Enchanted Island (1958)
• Tubby the Tuba (1976) (voice)
• Marie (1985)
• Picture This (1999)
• Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) (documentary)

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