Jane Powell is a Actor American born on 1 april 1929 at New York City (USA)
Jane Powell
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Birth name Suzanne Lorraine BurceNationality USABirth 1 april 1929 at New York City (
USA)
Death 16 september 2021 (at 92 years)
Jane Powell (born Suzanne Lorraine Burce; April 1, 1929) is an American singer, dancer, and actress.
Powell rose to fame as a singer in her home state of Oregon, and signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer while still in her teens. Once there, the studio used her vocal, dancing, and acting talents, casting her in such musicals as Royal Wedding with Fred Astaire, A Date with Judy with friend Elizabeth Taylor, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers with Howard Keel. In the late 1950s, her film career slowed, only to be replaced with a busy theater and television career.
As of 2013, Powell lived with her fifth husband, former child star Dickie Moore (until his death in September 2015), in Manhattan and Wilton, Connecticut, and is still active in television and theater. Biography
Powell has been married five times, and has three children from her first two marriages.
Her first marriage was to former figure skater Gearhardt "Geary" Anthony Steffen. He was a former skating partner to Sonja Henie, turned insurance broker. They married on November 5, 1949, and divorced on August 6, 1953. They had two children, Gearhardt Anthony "G.A." (pronounced Jay) Steffen III (born July 21, 1951) and Suzanne "Sissy" Ilene Steffen (born November 21, 1952). Friend and fellow actress Elizabeth Taylor served as one of her bridesmaids, with Powell returning the favor during Taylor's 1950 wedding to Conrad "Nicky" Hilton.
On November 8, 1954, Powell married Patrick W. Nerney, an automobile executive nine years her senior, in Ojai, California. Nerney had previously been married to actress Mona Freeman, with whom he had a daughter, also named Mona. Daughter Lindsey Averill Nerney (Powell states she named her for the California-based olive processor) was born from the union on February 1, 1956. The couple divorced in 1963.
A Republican, she sang the National Anthem at the 1956 Republican National Convention.
Powell's fifth marriage, to former child star Dickie Moore, was her longest. Powell and Moore were married from 1988 until his death in 2015. They met while Moore was researching his own autobiography, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, But Don't Have Sex or Take the Car.
Her autobiography was published in 1988.
For her 80th birthday, Robert Osborne, a film historian and host of Turner Classic Movies, and her husband organized a party at a New York hotel for forty-five of Powell's friends and family members.
Best films
(1954)
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