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Post by snsurone on Apr 1, 2018 18:52:09 GMT
She is 89-years old today.
A bit ironic that she shared the same birth date as the late Debbie Reynold's and they both appeared in a movie musical (HIT THE DECK) in the '50's.
Sorry I beat you to it, teleadm.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 1, 2018 20:00:01 GMT
Two Weeks with Love : Jane and Debbie together.
`Two Weeks With Love' The story follows adolescent Patti Robinson (Jane Powell) on her family vacation to Kissimee in the Catskills, where she meets and falls in love with the dashing Demi Armendez (Ricardo Montalban). Patti pursues Demi and the hotel bellboy Billy (Carleton Carpenter) pursues Patti and Patti's sister Melba (Debbie Reynolds) pursues Billy, and Patti and Melba's Mama and Papa (Ann Harding and Louis Calhern) struggle to accept that their little girl is growing up
Now if only we had Lon Chaney senior, Susan Boyle, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ali McGraw and Otto Van Bismark, Wallace Beery we could have a real April 1st Birthday Bash.
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 1, 2018 20:01:46 GMT
To me Jane will always be Adam's bride ('Bless your beautiful hide, wherever you may be ...').
She and Debbie also played sisters in ATHENA.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 1, 2018 20:07:36 GMT
She and Debbie also played sisters in ATHENA. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 1, 2018 20:12:56 GMT
Together in Hit The Deck
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 1, 2018 20:19:22 GMT
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 1, 2018 20:29:57 GMT
Now yer talkin' Bat -- and now Howie's singin'
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Post by snsurone on Apr 1, 2018 21:47:40 GMT
If I remember correctly, she started out in one of W. C. Fields' last movies.
She attained stardom when she signed with MGM.
Her first big hit was A DATE WITH JUDY.
Interestingly, Gene Kelly wanted her as his leading lady in SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, and not Debbie Reynolds, because Jane was more experienced.
But Jane was primarily a singer; one has to wonder if Kelly would have been as brutal to her as he was to Debbie regarding those complicated dance numbers.
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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. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 1, 2018 22:08:13 GMT
"Debbie Reynolds stated that she "learned a lot from [Gene Kelly]). He is a perfectionist and a disciplinarian--the most exciting director I've ever worked for. And he has a good temper. Every so often he would yell at me and make me cry. But it took a lot of patience for him to work with someone who had never danced before. It's amazing that I could keep up with him and Donald O'Connor."
Kelly later commented on her work, "Fortunately, Debbie was strong as an ox . . . also she was a great copyist, and she could pick up the most complicated routine without too much difficulty . . . at the university of hard work and pain."
Debbie Reynolds had no dancing experience before she made the film. She pointed this out when she was asked to be in the film, but Gene Kelly said he could teach her, just as he'd done with Frank Sinatra for Anchors Aweigh (1945). Reynolds had been a gymnast, so she wasn't completely unfamiliar with physical movement requiring grace and stamina. Ever the trouper, she buckled down and rehearsed day and night until she could share a dance floor with Kelly and Donald O'Connor without embarrassing herself.
"Very early on in the pre-production stage, Judy Garland, June Allyson and Ann Miller were considered for the role of Kathy Selden, but all were considered "too old". Jane Powell and Leslie Caron were also briefly considered before Debbie Reynolds (then a newcomer) was cast. "
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Post by teleadm on Apr 2, 2018 17:51:02 GMT
snsurone , I don't have any exclusive right to do bithdays here, so don't worry. I just simply don't have the time to do all of them anyway... ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Happy Birthday Jane !!!  .jpg) Song of the Open Road 1944  A Date with Judy 1948, with Elizabeth Taylor  Nancy Goes to Rio 1950, with Ann Southern and Louis Calhern  Enchanted Island 1958, with Dana Andrews :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6304190-1416035457-5809.jpeg.jpg) 
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