Jane Powell
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. Through the 1940s and 1950s, she had a successful career in movie musicals. However, in 1957, her career in films ended, as she had outgrown her innocent girl-next-door image. She has made brief returns to acting in front of the camera -- on television, in commercials, and in a workout video. She has had a variety of roles on stage since the end of her movie career, including the musicals "South Pacific," "The Sound of Music," "Oklahoma!," "My Fair Lady," "Carousel," and a one-woman show "The Girl Next Door and How She Grew," from which she took the title of her 1988 autobiography.
From the 1980s to the 2010s, Powell lived with her fifth husband, former child star Dickie Moore, in New York City and Connecticut, active in television and theater through the 2000s. Moore passed away in 2015 and Powell moved full-time to Wilton, Connecticut after that. Jane Powell passed away on September 16, 2021, of natural causes, at the age of 92.
Despite the same last name she is not related to actors William Powell, Dick Powell, or Eleanor Powell.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8581 |
| Birthday | 1929-04-01 |
| Place of Birth | Portland, Oregon, USA |
| Also Known As | Suzanne Lorraine Burce, |
1950
Two Weeks with Love
6.429/14
The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for th...
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Two Weeks with Love
1954
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
7.1/565
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1951
Royal Wedding
6.468/108
A brother and sister dance act encounter challenges and romance when booked in London during the Royal Wedding.
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Royal Wedding
1948
A Date with Judy
6.071/21
Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship w...
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A Date with Judy
1948
Luxury Liner
5.833/6
Capt. Jeremy Bradford has a particularly exciting luxury liner cruise in store when he's charged with transporting a troupe of opera singers to Rio de...
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Luxury Liner
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
7/7
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
1954
Athena
5.75/8
A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.
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Athena
1948
Three Daring Daughters
5.857/7
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
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Three Daring Daughters
1953
Small Town Girl
5.577/13
Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's d...
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Small Town Girl
1958
The Girl Most Likely
3.333/6
Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing de...
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The Girl Most Likely
1955
Hit the Deck
5/17
Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.
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Hit the Deck
1951
Rich, Young and Pretty
5.6/10
A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.
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Rich, Young and Pretty
1946
Holiday in Mexico
6.667/6
Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Evans, believes that she is no longer a young girl...
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Holiday in Mexico
1950
Nancy Goes to Rio
6/4
Mother and daughter compete over same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man.
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Nancy Goes to Rio
1945
Delightfully Dangerous
5.25/8
Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage...
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Delightfully Dangerous
1953
Three Sailors and a Girl
7/3
A group of sailors invest in a musical revue.
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Three Sailors and a Girl
1958
Enchanted Island
4.864/11
Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
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Enchanted Island
1944
Song of the Open Road
8/1
A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with...
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Song of the Open Road
1958
The Female Animal
6.031/16
Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach...
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The Female Animal
2011
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
0/0
The beloved, Emmy-winning comic actor Don Knotts, best-known for his roles as the bumbling deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and the lecher...
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Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
2000
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
5.727/11
About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigatio...
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Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
2007
Royal Wedding: June, Judy and Jane
0/0
When Arthur Freed brought Alan Jay Lerner to Hollywood to compose a new Fred Astaire musical (based on Fred's life,) little did he know he would have...
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Royal Wedding: June, Judy and Jane
1975
Tubby the Tuba
8/1
When Tubby the Tuba sets out to find a melody all of his own, his journey results in this enchanting and exciting musical tale. Tubby joins the circus...
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Tubby the Tuba
1973
The Letters
6.8/5
Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters.
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The Letters
1974
That's Entertainment!
7.356/66
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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That's Entertainment!
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
8/4
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Night of 100 Stars II
1954
Deep in My Heart
6.737/19
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
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Deep in My Heart
1959
Meet Me in St. Louis
6/2
A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
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Meet Me in St. Louis
2000
The Sandy Bottom Orchestra
6.6/5
The young-adult novel by Garrison Keillor and Jenny Lind Nilsson gets a lively update in this Showtime feature about an unusual family in Sandy Bottom...
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The Sandy Bottom Orchestra
1994
That's Entertainment! III
7.026/38
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to G...
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That's Entertainment! III
1997
Sobbin' Women: The Making of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'
8/3
This behind-the-scenes documentary includes interviews with people who were directly involved in the MGM classic musical 'Seven Brides for Seven Broth...
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Sobbin' Women: The Making of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'
1985
That's Dancing!
7.075/20
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from its origins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30...
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That's Dancing!
1977
Mayday at 40,000 Feet
6.444/9
The co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne after a marshal onboard, transporting a murderer to prison, has a hea...
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Mayday at 40,000 Feet
1992
Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
10/1
A look at the screen triumphs and private lives of the screen's number-one singing team.
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Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
2014
Private Screenings: Robert Osborne
7.3/3
TCM host Robert Osborne discusses his life and career with guest interviewer Alec Baldwin in commemoration of Osborne's 20 years with the network.
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Private Screenings: Robert Osborne
1982
Night of 100 Stars
6.75/4
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
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Night of 100 Stars
2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
0/0
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who...
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2009
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
0/0
During the 1950s, musical masterpieces that have yet to be equaled were produced in Cinemascope with stereophonic sound. These two episodes explore ho...
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1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
6/7
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.
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1961
Feathertop
9/1
When Madame Eau Charme, a social-climbing witch, fails to receive an invitation to the Governor's Ball, the most prestigious event of the season, she...
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Feathertop
1958
The All-Star Christmas Show
6/1
This 1958 Christmas spectacular was produced by the USO for the entertainment of troops stationed overseas. Over 50 top names from stage, screen and t...
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