A professional entertainer since the age of six, blue-eyed brunette Jane Frazee and her older sister Ruth Frazee had a vaudeville sister act and appeared in nightclubs and on radio together. They journeyed to Hollywood, but the act broke up when Ruth failed her screen tests and Jane passed hers. Jane was quite attractive with a pleasant singing voice, and went on to play in numerous westerns and light musicals after signing with Republic Pictures. She later appeared in a number of films for Universal Pictures, which put her to the test by having her warble amidst the antics of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Buck Privates (1941) and Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson in Hellzapoppin' (1941). She married actor/director Glenn Tryon in 1942 and had a son, Timothy, but the couple divorced in 1947. Moving into TV guest appearances in the early 1950s, Jane later retired and started a successful real estate business. She died in Newport Beach, California at age 67 following complications from a stroke on September 6, 1985.
Movie | So You Want a Model Railroad | Alice McDoakes (uncredited) | 1955-08-27 |
Movie | So You Want to Know Your Relatives | Alice McDoakes (uncredited) | 1954-12-18 |
Series | The Beulah Show | Alice Henderson | 1950-10-03 |
Movie | Under California Stars | Caroline Bullfincher | 1948-04-30 |
Movie | Incident | Marion Roberts | 1948-10-30 |
Movie | The Gay Ranchero | Betty Richards | 1948-01-14 |
Movie | Grand Canyon Trail | Carol Martin aka Carol Vanderpool | 1948-11-04 |
Movie | Last of the Wild Horses | Jane Cooper | 1948-12-27 |
Movie | Springtime in the Sierras | Taffy Baker | 1947-07-15 |
Movie | Calendar Girl | Patricia O'Neill | 1947-01-31 |
Movie | On the Old Spanish Trail | Candy | 1947-10-15 |
Movie | A Guy Could Change | Barbara Adams | 1946-01-27 |
Movie | Swingin' on a Rainbow | Lynn Ford | 1945-09-01 |
Movie | Swing in the Saddle | Penny Morrow | 1944-07-30 |
Movie | Cowboy Canteen | Connie Gray | 1944-02-09 |
Movie | Beautiful But Broke | Sally Richards | 1944-01-28 |
Movie | Rosie the Riveter | Rosalind 'Rosie' Warren | 1944-04-08 |
Movie | Kansas City Kitty | Eileen Hasbrook | 1944-08-24 |
Movie | The Big Bonanza | Chiquita McSweeney | 1944-12-30 |
Movie | Practically Yours | Jane Frazee - Vocalist | 1944-12-20 |
Movie | She's a Sweetheart | Maxine Lecour | 1944-12-07 |
Movie | Hi'ya, Chum | Sunny Lee | 1943-02-25 |
Movie | Rhythm of the Islands | Joan Holton | 1943-04-16 |
Movie | Keep 'Em Slugging | Star of Movie House Film | 1943-03-01 |
Movie | Almost Married | Gloria Dobson | 1942-05-22 |
Movie | Don't Get Personal | Mary Reynolds | 1942-01-02 |
Movie | What's Cookin'? | Anne Payne | 1942-02-20 |
Movie | Moonlight Masquerade | Vicki Forrester | 1942-06-10 |
Movie | Get Hep to Love | Ann Winters | 1942-10-02 |
Movie | When Johnny Comes Marching Home | Joyce Benton | 1942-12-24 |
Movie | Moonlight in Havana | Gloria Jackson | 1942-10-16 |
Movie | Angels with Broken Wings | Jane Lord | 1941-05-27 |
Movie | Buck Privates | Judy Gray | 1941-01-31 |
Movie | San Antonio Rose | Hope Holloway | 1941-06-20 |
Movie | Moonlight in Hawaii | Toby Spencer | 1941-10-09 |
Movie | Sing Another Chorus | Edna | 1941-09-19 |
Movie | Hellzapoppin' | Kitty Rand | 1941-12-25 |
Movie | Melody and Moonlight | Kay Barnett | 1940-10-10 |