Jane Winton
Jane Winton | |
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Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | October 10, 1905
Died | September 22, 1959 New York City, U.S. | (aged 53)
Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
Jane Winton (October 10, 1905 – September 22, 1959) was an American film actress, dancer, opera soprano, writer, and painter.[1]
Early years
Winton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,[2] in 1905.[1] The deaths of her father when she was four years old and her mother when she was six led to Winton's being "swapped back and forth among relatives, none of whom had proper funds to support her and therefore offered her more resentment than affection."[2] Eventually, an elderly doctor who was a family friend adopted her and raised her in a strict environment. After she graduated from a finishing school in Connecticut, she ran away rather than enter Bryn Mawr College and become a doctor, which was her guardian's desire for her. She went to stay with a friend in New York City and was discovered there by producers Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky.[2]
Actress
During the 1920s, she began her stage career as a dancer with the
Winton played Donna Isobel in Don Juan (1926).[1] The film starred John Barrymore and Mary Astor. The movie was billed as the first film made in Vitaphone, an invention that synchronized sound with motion pictures. Modern sound pictures began with the Vitaphone.
Opera and radio
After leaving Hollywood, Winton performed various operatic roles both in the United States and abroad. Her operatic debut came in 1933 when she performed as Nedda in the
Novelist
In 1951 Winton's novel Park Avenue Doctor was published. Passion Is the Gale was her second novel.[1]
Marriage
Winton married three times. In 1927, she wed Hollywood screenwriter Charles Kenyon.[citation needed] On July 17, 1930, she married broker Horace Gumble in Jersey City, New Jersey.[4] Her last husband was Michael T. Gottlieb, a stockbroker, tournament contract bridge player, and Arizona property owner. They wed in 1935.[citation needed]
Death
Winton died in 1959 at the
Partial filmography
- Three Women (1924)
- Tomorrow's Love (1925)
- His Supreme Moment (1925)
- The Love Toy (1926)
- Why Girls Go Back Home (1926)
- My Old Dutch (1926)
- Footloose Widows (1926)
- Don Juan (1926)
- The Honeymoon Express (1926)
- Across the Pacific (1926)
- The Gay Old Bird (1927)
- Upstream (1927)
- The Monkey Talks (1927)
- The Beloved Rogue (1927)
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
- Lonesome Ladies (1927)
- Perch of the Devil (1927)
- The Fair Co-Ed (1927)
- The Poor Nut (1927)
- Bare Knees (1928)
- Honeymoon Flats (1928)
- Nothing to Wear (1928)
- Burning Daylight (1928)
- The Patsy (1928)
- Yellow Lily (1928)
- Melody of Love (1928)
- Captain Lash (1929)
- Scandal (1929)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)
- Show Girl in Hollywood(1930)
- A Notorious Affair (1930)
- Hell's Angels (1930)
- Hired Wife (1934)
- Limelight (1936)
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4766-2599-7. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
- ^ a b c d Battelle, Phyllis (August 3, 1951). "Jane Winton, Siletn Film Star And Opera Singer, Writes Novel". The Tribune. Pennsylvania, Scranton. International News Service. p. 6. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
- ^ Newspapers.com.
- Newspapers.com.
- Obituary, New York Times, September 23, 1959, p. 35. (subscription required)
External links
- Jane Winton at IMDb