Jane Powell
With a light-up-a-room smile, mesmerizing hazel eyes, and a trademark perky demeanor, Jane Powell incarnated the last gasp of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's era of feel-good musicals and the wholesome performers who inhabited these Technicolor extravaganzas. Powell emerged from a troubled childhood to find a spot in MGM's stable of child stars, doing a string of plucky love-struck teen roles in B-musicals of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Wielding a powerful soprano voice, she would secure a place in the pantheon of classic musicals in the lead of the 1954 film adaptation of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." Though her movie glory days lasted only a decade, she transitioned into television and eventually took her penchant for classic musicals on regional theatrical tours. For a generation, Powell would forever embody the archetype of the all-American girl-next-door, remaining a symbol of the proverbial shinier, simpler good old days.
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Jane Powell
Filmography
Movies
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The Sandy Bottom Orchestra | Delia Ferguson (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tubby the Tuba | Celeste (Voice) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mayday at 40,000 Feet! | Kitty Douglass (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Letters | Elaine Anderson (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wheeler and Murdoch | Dorcie (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Female Animal | Penny Windsor (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La Isla Encantada | Unknown (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Enchanted Island | Fayaway (Character) | - | 1958 |
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The Girl Most Likely | Dodie (Character) | - | 1957 |
67% |
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Hit the Deck | Susan Smith (Character) | - | 1955 |
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Deep in My Heart | Ottilie van Zandt (Character) | - | 1954 |
89% |
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Milly Pontipee (Character) | - | 1954 |
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Athena | Athena Mulvain (Character) | - | 1954 |
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Three Sailors and a Girl | Penny Weston (Character) | - | 1953 |
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Small Town Girl | Cindy Kimbell (Character) | - | 1953 |
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Rich, Young and Pretty | Elizabeth Rogers (Character) | - | 1951 |
91% |
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Royal Wedding | Ellen Bowen (Character) | - | 1951 |
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Nancy Goes to Rio | Nancy Barklay (Character) | - | 1950 |
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Two Weeks With Love | Patti Robinson (Character) | - | 1950 |
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Luxury Liner | Polly Bradford (Character) | - | 1948 |
57% |
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A Date With Judy | Judy Foster (Character) | - | 1948 |
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Three Daring Daughters | Tess Morgan (Character) | - | 1948 |
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Holiday in Mexico | Christine Evans (Character) | - | 1946 |
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Delightfully Dangerous | Sherry Williams (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Song of the Open Road | Jane Powell (Character) | - | 1944 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Classic Casualty | Director | 2004 |
78% | 83% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Bess Sherman (Guest Star) | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Judge John Deed | Director | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Growing Pains | Irma (Character) | 1988-1990 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Rev. Mother Claire (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 1981-1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1956 1958 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Red Skelton Show |
Unknown (Guest Star), Guest |
1968 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Toast of the Town | Self | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Judy Garland Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1959 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Turn of Fate | Kathy Dorn (Character) | 1957 |