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- Birth nameMary Jane Frehse
- 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 Deux nigauds soldats (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.- IMDb mini biography by: frankfob2@yahoo.com
- SpousesDavid Hugh Leatherman(June 10, 1957 - ?) (divorced)Whitey Christensen(April 24, 1948 - ?)Glenn Tryon(May 28, 1942 - April 16, 1947) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenTimothy Tryon
- RelativesRuth Frazee(Sibling)
- MGM was interested in Jane in 1940 and offered to sign her at $150 a week. She received another offer by Republic Pictures at $250 a week and took it.
- When sister Ruth retired from show business after her marriage to writer-producer Norman Krasna, Jane went solo and moved into films.
- Married four times.
- Her marriage to Glenn Tryon in 1942 produced one son, Timothy.
- Co-starred with Roy Rogers in a number of his westerns when Dale Evans took a break to pursue other types of roles.
- I wasn't bad looking, but I was never a beautiful girl, and in those days you had to look great. I had a drive to do better things than I was doing, but not that great inner drive that every successful people have.
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