page_title: Jane Powell
section_title: Later years
hierarchical_section_title: Jane Powell / Career / Later years
caption_attribution_description: English: Jane Powell's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
context_page_description: Jane Powell is an American singer, dancer and actress who rose to fame in the mid-1940s with roles in various Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals.
  Powell was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, where she achieved local fame as a singer, touring the state as the Oregon Victory Girl selling victory bonds. As a teenager, she relocated to Los Angeles, California, where she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Powell's vocal, dancing, and acting talents were utilized for lead and supporting roles in musicals such as A Date with Judy, Royal Wedding, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Hit the Deck.
  By the late 1950s, her film career slowed, leading her to transition to theatre with performances in various touring shows as well as two Broadway productions. In 1985, Powell relocated with her fifth husband, former child star Dickie Moore, to New York City and Wilton, Connecticut, where she is occasionally active in local theatre.
context_section_description: During her marriage to Dick Moore, Powell lived in Manhattan and (since 1985) in Wilton, Connecticut. When Moore died in 2015, she sold their New York apartment and now lives permanently in Wilton. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Actors' Fund of America.
  In 2003, she made a return to the stage as Mama Mizner in the Stephen Sondheim musical Bounce. Despite Powell's great reviews in the part, Bounce was not critically successful and did not move to Broadway.
  For one evening, she returned to Portland, her hometown, narrating Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf with Pink Martini on December 31, 2007. She also appeared on March 9, 2008, with Martini at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City; she sang a duet of "Aba Daba Honeymoon" with lead singer China Forbes. In March 2009, she appeared and sang "Love Is Where You Find It" in a show in which Michael Feinstein celebrated movie musicals and MGM musicals in particular. She performed again with Pink Martini at the Hollywood Bowl on September 10, 2010.
  Powell filled in as guest host on Turner Classic Movies for Robert Osborne when he was on medical leave from July 17–23, 2011.
caption: Jane Powell's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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