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I
COVER GIRL
HER
HEART KNOWS
As a child she helped pay for voice lessons by running errands for tenants of apartment house where her father worked. Above, at 15, when she made debut in “Song of the Open Road”
PHOTOPLAY
FEATURE
ATTRACTION
If Jane Powell hadn’t
listened to her heart she
Janie, at 9 months, with her mother. Although she was an only child, she wasn’t spoiled — there was never money enough
never would have grown up to be a movie
star or such a happy wife and mother
By RUTH BRIGHAM
The failure of her parents’ marriage— they divorced two years ago — strengthened Jane’s desire to build her marriage so firmly it will last forever
The tiny, honey-haired blonde strode into her hotel suite, passed through the sitting room and bedroom without so much as a glance about her, and quickly threw open the bathroom door. Then she let out a squeal of delight at sight of nothing more exciting than ordinary bathroom scales. Tossing a triumphant but mischievous grin over her shoulder at the tall, attractive young man who followed, she kicked aside her shoes and stepped on the scales — all five feet, two inches of her. They registered ninety-nine pounds.
But they registered far more than that, for the pretty young girl was Jane Powell, and the smiling young man was her husband, Geary Steffan — and bathroom scales happen to be a mute but potent symbol of the happiest marriage in Hollywood’s “younger set.” They represent the time Geary laid down the law.
And, while Jane Powell can afford to buy mink coats she can’t buy any scales for her pretty Brentwood home. Because Geary won’t permit them.
“When Janie and I first started going together she always was worrying about
Jane Powell will soon appear in “The Student Prince”
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