Jane Winton
Biography
Jane Winton was an American actress who also danced, sang opera, wrote, and painted. Born in Philadelphia in 1905, she was discovered in New York City by the producers Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky. She began in the 1920s dancing in the Ziegfeld Follies, later moving to the West Coast, where she was known as its green-eyed goddess. Her films included Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), The Patsy (1928), and Hell's Angels (1930), and she played Donna Isobel in Don Juan (1926), promoted as the first feature made using Vitaphone. She then left Hollywood for opera, making her debut in 1933 as Nedda in Pagliacci, staged by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and she sang with the National Grand Opera Company. She also took the lead in the operetta Caviar, worked in radio in England, and published the novels Park Avenue Doctor (1951) and Passion Is the Gale.
53years old at death
- Born Philadelphia
- Died New York City
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
- Also credited as Mrs. J. Winton Gottlieb
Movie Career
- Films
- 4
- Career span
- 3 years1927 to 1930
Every film, newest first
- 1930Hell's AngelsIMDb rating 7.2
- 1928The PatsyIMDb rating 7.4
- 1927Sunrise: A Song of Two HumansIMDb rating 8.1
- 1927The Beloved RogueIMDb rating 7.0
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A first
In Don Juan (1926), Winton took the part of Donna Isobel. Billed as the first movie made in Vitaphone, the invention that synchronized sound with motion pictures, the film also starred John Barrymore and Mary Astor.
First role
Winton began her stage career in the 1920s as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies before heading to the West Coast.
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Worked with
Jane Winton made one film with each of them. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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All films by F.W. Murnau
Edmund GouldingDirector, 1 film, 1930
All films by Edmund Goulding
All films by Howard Hughes
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