Jane Powell
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
65
Gender
Female
Birthday
1929-04-01
Day of death
2021-09-16 (92 years old)
Place of Birth
Portland, Oregon, USA
Jane Powell
Biography
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
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show
Murder, She Wrote
The Love Boat
The Love Boat
The Merv Griffin Show
What's My Line?
The Ed Sullivan Show
Fantasy Island
The Steve Allen Show
The Steve Allen Show
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Oscars
Growing Pains
The Hollywood Palace
The Hollywood Palace
Alcoa Theatre
Alcoa Theatre
Alcoa Theatre
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
The Bell Telephone Hour
Two Weeks with Love
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Sobbin' Women: The Making of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'
Holiday in Mexico
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Three Daring Daughters
Feathertop
The Letters
The Judy Garland Show
The Girl Most Likely
Royal Wedding
Tubby the Tuba
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Night of 100 Stars
Small Town Girl
Enchanted Island
That's Dancing!
Delightfully Dangerous
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
Athena
Hit the Deck
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
The Female Animal
Private Screenings
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Burt Reynolds' Conversations with...
Three Sailors and a Girl
A Date with Judy
Deep in My Heart
That's Entertainment!
Mayday at 40,000 Feet
Meet Me in St. Louis
Royal Wedding: June, Judy and Jane
Private Screenings: Robert Osborne
Luxury Liner
Night of 100 Stars II
That's Entertainment! III
The Sandy Bottom Orchestra
Song of the Open Road
Rich, Young and Pretty
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
Nancy Goes to Rio
Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
