The First Lady of Song
1930s through the 1950s
- She did a few movies in the 1930s and made about 10 Record Albums!
- In 1952 they made a movie about her life called With a Song in My Heart!
- She was a top singer on Broadway in the 1930s!
AKA
- Ellen Jane Froman
Jane Froman
Television Category Star
- Ceremony was on February 8, 1960
Jane Froman
Radio Category Star
- Ceremony was on February 8, 1960
Jane Froman
Recording Category Star
- Ceremony was on February 8, 1960
With a Song in My Heart
Jane Froman In the 20th Century Fox Technicolor Production "With a Song in my Heart"
America's First Lady of Song, who sings her way into the hearts of millions in the stirring Technicolor film With A Song In My Heart.
The life story of Jane Froman is a saga of courage, heroism, forbearance, and... music.
At the height of her meteoric rise to fame as 'The First Lady of Song' in the orbit of popular music, she abandoned her brilliant and lucrative professional career to become the first artist to volunteer her talents for the entertainment of servicemen overseas during World War II.
Jane Froman's tragic plane accident enroute to Europe... her valiant fight for life and recovery... her amazing comeback and the touching romantic note fate wove into the dramatic pattern of her life; all evoked the greatest sympathy, appreciation, and affection ever accorded anyone in show business.
Capitol is privileged to bring you this exclusive album of hit songs sung by lovely Jane Froman in the dramatic and colorful motion picture of her life, WITH A SONG IN MY HEART. Performed with warmth and fervor, her glorious voice was never more beautiful... a singing symbol of her resplendent life.
- Opening Intro
- Tea For Two
- Blue Moon
- That Old Feeling
- Embraceable You
- Get Happy
- I'll Walk Alone
- I'm Thru with Love
- An American Medley
- SPOTIFY:
[https://open.spotify.com/album/1DRqT4Mx4DPBg8wCz10l4S] - APPLE MUSIC:
[https://music.apple.com/gb/album/1611655780] - AMAZON:
[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YWIN8C]
Jane Froman
Plucky Jane Froman dies at 72
From AP and UPI
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Actress-singer Jane Froman, whose heroic comeback from plane crash injuries was portrayed in the 1952 film "With a Song in My Heart," is dead at age 72.
The big-band-era singer died Tuesday at her Columbia home after a long, undisclosed Illness. Miss Froman, who got her start with a Cincinnati radio station, was seriously injured in a plane crash in Lisbon, Portugal, while on a USO tour in 1943.
After dozens of operations for her legs and arms, and expenses estimated at $500,000, she returned to Europe in 1945 to give performances for wounded servicemen.
SHE MARRIED John C. Burn, the pilot of the plane that crashed. But the marriage ended in divorce.
The struggle of her comeback was depicted in the 1952 film starring the late Susan Hayward. Miss Froman's voice was dubbed in for the musical numbers.
Born in University City, Mo., Miss Froman attended Christian College in Columbia and the University of Missouri. In the early 1930s, she got a singing job with a Cincinnati radio station and before World War II was a featured singer with the Paul Whiteman band.
In 1962 she married Roland H. Smith, a childhood friend. Smith, a former public information officer at the University of Missouri, was her only survivor.
