Jane Winton

Jane Winton probably in the late 1920s

Jane Winton (born October 10, 1905 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † September 22, 1959 in New York City ) was an American actress , dancer , singer and writer .

Life

Winton began her career in the 1920s as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies . She moved to Hollywood in the mid-1920s and first appeared in the 1925 silent film Tomorrow’s Love . The most famous films in which Winton was seen include Sunrise - A Song of Two People from 1927 and A Girl at a Tempo from 1928. After numerous films up to 1929, she made only a few sound films and finally retired in 1936 back from the movie.

Winton was active as an opera singer in the 1930s, performing both in the United States and abroad. As a writer, she published two novels: Park Avenue Doctor in 1951 and Passion is the Gale in 1952 . Winton, who was married three times, died in 1959 at the Hotel Pierre in New York City.

Filmography

• 1925: Tomorrow's Love
• 1925: The Temptation of Love (His Supreme Moment)
• 1926: The Love Toy
• 1926: Why Girls Go Back Home
• 1926: My Old Dutch
• 1926: Fottloose Widows
• 1926: The Passionate Quest
• 1926: Don Juan - The Great Lover (Don Juan)
• 1926: The Honeymoon Express
• 1926: Millionaires
• 1926: The Deserter (Across the Pacific)
• 1926: My Official Wife
• 1927: upstream
• 1927: The Monkey Talks
• 1927: The Gay Old Bird
• 1927: Perch of the Devil
• 1927: The Bettelpoet (The Beloved Rogue)
• 1927: Lonesome Ladies
• 1927: The Poor Nut
• 1927 Sunrise - A Song of Two people (Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans)
• 1927: The Crystal Cup
• 1928: The blonde colleague (The Fair Co-Ed)
• 1928: Bare Knees
• 1928: Call of the gold (Burning Daylight)
• 1928: Honeymoon Flats
• 1928: A girl with speed (The Patsy)
• 1928: Yellow Lily
• 1928: Melody of Love
• 1928: Nothing to Wear
• 1929: The Wives Stories of Captain Lash (Captain Lash)
• 1929: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• 1929: Tender Shoulders (Scandal)
• 1930: In the Next Room
• 1930: The Furies
• 1930: Show Girl in Hollywood
• 1930: A Notorious Affair
• 1931: Hell's Angels (Hell's Angels)
• 1932: The Crane Poison Case
• 1934: Hired Wife
• 1935: The Light Fantastic
• 1936: Limelight

literature

• Jane Winton, 51, actress, singer . In: New York Times, September 23, 1959, p. 35.
• Gabriele Jatho, Rainer Rother (Ed.): City Girls. Images of women in silent films . Bertz + Fischer, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86505-177-6 .

Web links

Commons : Jane Winton  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jane Winton in the Internet Movie Database (English)