Jane Frazee
Also Known As: Mary Jane Frehse
Biography: 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 Buck Privates (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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Birthday: July 18, 1915
Deathday: September 06, 1985
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Buck Privates
Overview: Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-31
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Incident
Overview: An innocent man -- due to a case of mistaken identity -- is beaten. Once recovered, the stockbroker tries to find the actual intended target -- a gangster-- and warn him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-30
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Under California Stars
Overview: On vacation at his ranch, western actor Roy quickly finds himself involved with a horse rustling operation and a boy ward of one of the rustlers, leading to the kidnapping of Roy's trick horse Trigger by the gang with a demand for ransom.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-30
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Hellzapoppin'
Overview: Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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Grand Canyon Trail
Overview: Sintown is just a deserted ghost town until Vanerpool starts looking for silver. Cookie and Roy's partners put $20,000 into the business only to find that the mine is worthless and Vanerpool is bankrupt. Carol comes out to look for silver to save the company, but does not know that their engineer, named Regan, is crooked and wants all the silver for himself. But only Old Ed knows where the mother lode is located.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-04
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San Antonio Rose
Overview: San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The Merry Macs, and a strong cast of supporting clowns. Robert Paige plays roadhouse operator Con Conway, whose establishment is in danger of being squeezed out by its competition. Stranded entertainers Hope Holloway (Jane Frazee) and Gabby Trent (Eve Arden) decide to revivify Conway's establishment by staging an energetic floor show built around the talented Merry Macs. A rival club owner dispatches his two top hooligans Jigsaw Kennedy (Lon Chaney Jr.) and Benny the Bounce (Shemp Howard) to wreck Conway's club by posing as waiters, but the two stupes are easily cowed into submission--by the leading ladies!
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-20
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Get Hep to Love
Overview: Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-02
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Beautiful But Broke
Overview: Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service due to WWII, and joins struggling singers/songwriters Sally Richards and Sue Ford in this endeavor. Dottie's screwball schemes to get engagements for the group often lead to disaster.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-28
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The Big Bonanza
Overview: Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother. There he meets his old school friend Sam Ballou. But the two old friends soon find themselves on opposite sides and Sam has Jed arrested. Then when Jed's young brother sees one of Sam's men kill another man, the boy becomes Sam's intended victim.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-30
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The Gay Ranchero
Overview: Manzanita Springs ia a combination small airline and spa and Vance Brados wants it. He pays their mechanic to have the planes run out of fuel so his men can rob the gold shipments and kill the pilots. After Sheriff Roy Rogers catches the mechanic, Roy plans one more gold shipment to get proof and this time his men will be ready. But it looks like Roy's plan will fail when Brados suspects a trap and call off the raid.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1948-01-14
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Calendar Girl
Overview: Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artist, go to New York City to make their fortune. They both fall in love with the same girl, Patricia O'Neill. The artist paints a picture of her which outrages her father's sensibilities; but, as a result of the picture, she wins a chance to star in a Broadway play. She soon learns that the artist is just a trifler; and she turns to the composer, who loves her sincerely
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-31
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Springtime in the Sierras
Overview: Jean Loring has her men illegally killing and selling game. Roy suspects her and gets himself invited to stay at her ranch. Investigating he finds the freezer where the slaughtered game are kept. But he is caught, tied up, and left to freeze.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-15
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Last of the Wild Horses
Overview: A cowboy must clear himself of a murder he did not commit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-27
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Moonlight in Havana
Overview: A talented baseball player discovers he can only sing beautifully when he has a cold, leading a nightclub manager to hilariously attempt to keep him sick while featuring a host of musical performances.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-16
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On the Old Spanish Trail
Overview: A cowboy turns bounty hunter to pay off his debts.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-15
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A Guy Could Change
Overview: A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-27
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Angels with Broken Wings
Overview: Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But Mexican divorces have been declared illegal, so Guy is still married to Sybil Barton, an unscrupulous gold-digger who left him twelve years earlier. She demands that Guy give her $250,000 for his freedom.- Written by Les Adams
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-27
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So You Don't Trust Your Wife
Overview: When his wife Alice questions Joe as to whether his insurance policy is paid up, he begins to see a plot to murder him in everything she does.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-29
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Rosie the Riveter
Overview: In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male workers. The situation is on the up and up as the men and women work different shifts and they are only making do because there is a housing shortage. Unfortunately, they soon begin to fight about who gets the house during certain hours. Romance ensues.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-08
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Swing in the Saddle
Overview: In this tuneful western, two curious actresses head West to find out the name of their secret admirer. Songs include: "Amor," (Sunny Skylar, Gabriel Ruiz), "Hey Mabel" (Fred Stryker), "By the River Sainte Marie" (Edgar Leslie, Harry Warren), "She Broke My Heart in Three Places" (Oliver Drake), "When It's Harvest Time in Peaceful Valley" (Robert Martin, Raymond McKee), and "There'll Be a Jubilee" (Phil Moore).
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-30
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Kansas City Kitty
Overview: A piano teacher and her roommate decide invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comedy with music.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-24
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Practically Yours
Overview: In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Instead of his dog Piggy he is thought to be in love with Peggy, a girl he worked with. The usual farce ensues after he returns home alive and tries to play along with the mistake to save embarrassment for all.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-20
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Moonlight Masquerade
Overview: Two business partners, John Bennett, Sr. and Robert Forrester, are starting to get nervous when the birthday of Victoria, Forrester's daughter, approaches. A long time ago the two men made an arrangement that they would sign over one third of their company to their oldest children when they turned twenty-one, with the condition they married each other within thirty days....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-10
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Swingin' on a Rainbow
Overview: A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-01
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What's Cookin'?
Overview: J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-20
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She's a Sweetheart
Overview: In this musical drama, a woman turns her mansion into a boarding house for soldiers on furlough, providing them with room, board, and musical entertainment.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-07
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Melody and Moonlight
Overview: Jane Frazee made her starring film debut in the Republic B-plus musical Melody and Moonlight. The plot is motivated by the show-biz aspirations of bellboy Danny O'Brien (Johnny Downs). With the help of a wealthy chiropodist (Jerry Colonna), O'Brien not only gets to star on a big-time radio show, but also sprinkles stardust upon his sweetheart Kay Barnett (Jane Frazee)-who, unbeknownst to everyone but the audience, is the daughter of the show's sponsor.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-10
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Moonlight in Hawaii
Overview: Deciding to quit his singing act and become a tourist guide, Pete Fleming escorts wealthy Mrs. Floto and her three nieces to Hawaii for a vacation. Behind his back, Pete's three bandmates stowaway and tag along.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-09
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Sing Another Chorus
Overview: In this musical, an idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and producing the campus variety show. Wanting to launch his career, he convinces his father to allow him to create a production using the workers at the old man's clothing factory. Unfortunately, the young man is naive and an unscrupulous producer bilks his father's advance money from him.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-19
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Almost Married
Overview: To avoid a costly breach of contract suit, a rich young man marries a nightclub singer.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-22
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When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Overview: By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Jones is cast as war hero Johnny Kovacs, who wearies of the adulation heaped upon him and takes refuge under an assumed name in a theatrical boarding house. Here he befriends orchestra leader Phil Spitalny and his all-girl aggregation, including the inimitable Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. When Army officials trace Johnny to the boarding house, his new friends assume that he's a deserter and try to convince him to return to duty.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-24
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Hi'ya, Chum
Overview: Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-25
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Rhythm of the Islands
Overview: Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones) posing as a native chief. Joan Holton (Jane Frazee), daughter of a millionaire (Ernest Truex), falls in love with Tommy, unaware that he's a charlatan.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-16
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Cowboy Canteen
Overview: Song and comedy revue, featuring Western talents, along with a theatrical troupe taking their vacation on the Lazy B Ranch run by Steve Bradley. Steve is about to enter the army and he and Tex Coulter compete for the love of Connie Grey.
Genres: Music War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-09
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Don't Get Personal
Overview: Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored by his company, as he thinks their on-air quarreling is real. Two former associates, Jules Kinsey and J.M. Snow cross him up by substituting Susan Blair, an office secretary, for Mary and Elmer thinks the show's writer Paul Stevens is John.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-02
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So You Want a Model Railroad
Overview: Alice visits Mr. Agony with her latest problem with Joe. They had given Junior a toy railroad for a Christmas present, and Joe had taken it over and become obsessed to the point he has built a railroad empire using all of his time, energy and money. When Alice's mother comes to dinner, Joe even has a rigged-up train serving as the dumb waiter. Mr. Agony helps Alice to solve her problem.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-27
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Keep 'Em Slugging
Overview: A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-01
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Ten Cents a Dance
Overview: Two privates on a 36 hour pass meet two dance hall dames, complications ensue!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-07
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Rhythm Inn
Overview: A bandleader, desperate to get his band's instruments out of hock, promises the pawnshop clerk--an aspiring songwriter--that he'll let the band's female singer do the clerk's songs at a local club if he will let the band "borrow" their instruments at night. The clerk's girlfriend, however, thinks that the band singer is after more than her boyfriend's songs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-11
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So You Want to Know Your Relatives
Overview: Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-18
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So You're Taking in a Roomer
Overview: Joe and Alice decide to rent a room in their house to their neighbor Marvin, who says he is a potato broker.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-30
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So You Think the Grass Is Greener
Overview: When he gets to his office after a usual morning of nagging by his wife, Alice, Joe McDoakes starts to daydream about what life would be like married to the beautiful office blonde.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-28
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