Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 1, 2018 22:00:59 GMT
Jane Powell was singing and dancing at an early age. She sang on the radio and performed in theaters before her screen debut in 1944.
Attended Agnes Peters Dancing School as a child in Portland, Oregon.
Birth Name
Suzanne Lorraine Burce
The character she played in her first movie, Song of the Open Road (1944) was named Jane Powell. MGM gave her the name of the character she played for her own stage moniker.
Song of the Open Road (1944)
Child film star Jane Powell, fed up with her every move being stage managed by her stage mother, runs away and joins the U.S. Crop Corps, a small army of young folks staying at youth hostels and picking crops while adult farmworkers are at war. Totally clueless about the real world, befuddled Jane is embroiled in teen-romance complications while Mother frantically searches. Will her stardom help or hinder her new friends? W.C. Fields does a short act with Bergen and McCarthy.
Attended Agnes Peters Dancing School as a child in Portland, Oregon.
Birth Name
Suzanne Lorraine Burce
The character she played in her first movie, Song of the Open Road (1944) was named Jane Powell. MGM gave her the name of the character she played for her own stage moniker.
Song of the Open Road (1944)
Child film star Jane Powell, fed up with her every move being stage managed by her stage mother, runs away and joins the U.S. Crop Corps, a small army of young folks staying at youth hostels and picking crops while adult farmworkers are at war. Totally clueless about the real world, befuddled Jane is embroiled in teen-romance complications while Mother frantically searches. Will her stardom help or hinder her new friends? W.C. Fields does a short act with Bergen and McCarthy.