Jane Lawrence
Jane Lawrence | |
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| Born | Jane Brotherton February 3, 1915 |
| Died | August 5, 2005 (aged 90) |
| Occupations | Stage, film actress |
| Spouse | Tony Smith |
| Children | 3, including Kiki Smith and Seton Smith |
Jane Lawrence Smith (February 3, 1915 – August 5, 2005), born Jane Brotherton, was an American actress and opera singer who was part of the New York art scene beginning in the 1950s.[1]
Life and work
[edit | edit source]Jane Brotherton was born in Bozeman, Montana, and grew up in Mount Vernon, Washington.[1][2] Her father was Lawrence Langham Brotherton, a founder of the Bozeman Canning Company.[2] She attended Mount Vernon High School[3] and the University of Washington School of Drama.[2]
In 1943 she, created the small role of Gertie in Oklahoma! on Broadway. The same year, she married Tony Smith, an architect who later achieved fame as a minimalist sculptor.[1] Her close friend Tennessee Williams was best man at her wedding. The Smiths became the parents of three daughters, Kiki Smith, Seton Smith and Beatrice (Bebe) Smith Robinson.
She performed the lead role in the no wave opera XS: The Opera Opus (1984-6) that was created by composer Rhys Chatham and artist Joseph Nechvatal.[4][1][5]
Her only film role was that of Clementine Brown in Sailor's Holiday (1944) opposite Arthur Lake and Shelley Winters and in which she was credited as June Lawrence.[1]
She died at age of 90 on August 5, 2005, at her home in Greenwich Village, NY.[1]
Broadway appearances
[edit | edit source]- Oklahoma! (1943) as Gertie Cummings (opening night cast)
- Inside U.S.A. (1948) in multiple roles (opening night cast)
- Where's Charley? (1948) as Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez (opening night cast)
References
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- ^ Willoughby Sharp, "Joseph Nechvatal, Machine Language Books, 1984. pp. 52-55.
- ^ Pollock, Jackson. "Number 7." http://www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved January 28, 2014.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Jane Lawrence at IMDb
- Jane Lawrence at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- [1] mp3 of "murmuring tOngue Of Ovid" (20:53) Jane Lawrence Smith reading from Ovid's poem Metamorphosis in 1985 as part of an audio art piece by Joseph Nechvatal on Ubuweb
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- 1915 births
- 2005 deaths
- People from Mount Vernon, Washington
- People from Bozeman, Montana
- American operatic sopranos
- American expatriate actresses in Germany
- American stage actresses
- American film actresses
- Singers from Washington (state)
- Singers from Montana
- Actresses from Washington (state)
- Actresses from Montana
- 20th-century American actresses
- 20th-century American women opera singers
- 21st-century American women