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.
Born Suzanne Lorraine Burce in ****tland, 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.
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).
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 op****tunity 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.
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