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
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.
