Jane Powell Net Worth

Jane Powell's Quotes

• I didn't quit movies. They quit me.
• The only thing I knew was MGM, where I had worked since I was 14. Unions were not even a part of my vocabulary. SAG meant a gravity problem. EQUITY meant owning a house.
• [2017] I don't think about the past except now, when we're talking about it. I never felt I was really there anyway. I always pictured myself as a fly who was up in the corner looking down at myself. I never feel I was there. I'm not very sentimental when it comes to the past. I don't live there and I feel for people who do because it's never going to be the same as you remember it.

Interesting Facts about Jane Powell

1. Is a coloratura soprano who started her career singing on the radio before age 13.
2. Based out of Roanoke and is currently singing on NCL cruise ships. [February 2006]
3. Her role model and favorite actress is the lyrical soprano/actress, Jeanette MacDonald.
4. Grew up watching Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy movies.
5. Best known for her role as Milly in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954).
6. Was bridesmaid for Elizabeth Taylor for her first marriage. Taylor was bridesmaid for Powell's first marriage.
7. Sang at the Inaugural Ball for President Harry S. Truman on January 20, 1949.
8. Roddy McDowall, a friend from the beginning of Jane's Hollywood career and the remainder of his life, was an usher at her first wedding.
9. Jane replaced June Allyson and Judy Garland for the role in Wedding Bells (1951), after June became pregnant and Judy became sick.
10. When the Burce family first arrived in Hollywood, they rented Donald Meek's house.
11. She learned and loved to cook before she was 10 years old.
12. At the age of 12, Jane Powell was selected "Oregon Victory Girl".
13. Her father worked for Wonder Bread for almost 20 years, before the family moved to Oakland.
14. She appeared on stage with Howard Keel after her movie career was over. They performed together in "I Do, I Do!" and "South Pacific" among others.
15. Although one of the best singers of her time, Powell never learned to play an instrument or read music.
16. Attended Agnes Peters Dancing School as a child in Portland, Oregon.
17. Christened the ship "Peter Skene Ogden" on November 14, 1942. The ship was torpedoed and sank in World War II on February 22, 1944.
18. Dated dancer Stanley Catron after meeting on the set of Song of the Open Road (1944).
19. Her husband Patrick Nerney bought her a pair of diamond earrings and due to her fear of needles, she figured the only way she would have of wearing them was to have her ears pierced under anaesthetic. Upon discovering she was pregnant with her last daughter Lindsay, she explained to the doctor that he could only handle her case if he would pierce her ears while she was on the delivery table. He agreed, and she left the delivery room with a baby daughter and two pierced ears.
20. Beside actress Elizabeth Taylor, other bridesmaids at her wedding to Geary Anthony Steffen Jr. included Roddy McDowall's sister Virginia McDowall, Ed Sullivan's daughter Betty Sullivan and Powell's good friend Margie Dillon.