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Gloria Jean
12+ albums
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# Gloria Jean (Gloria Jean Schoonover, Buffalo, New York, April 14, 1926 – August 31, 2018) was an American actress and singer who starred or co-starred in 26 feature films between 1939 and 1959, as well as making numerous radio, television, stage, and nightclub appearances. The daughter of Ferman and Eleanor Schoonover, Gloria Jean her ancestry was Pennsylvania Dutch. Her family moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania, she had three sisters, Sally, Lois, and Bonnie. The family was involved in her career, with Lois serving as stand-in for the actress and their father managing her career. Gloria Jean was three years old when she first sang on radio. After moving to Scranton, Pennsylvania, Gloria Jean sang on radio with Paul Whiteman's band. When she was 12, "she was engaged by a smallish New York opera company and became the youngest member of an opera troupe in the United States." Gloria Jean was being trained as a coloratura soprano, when her voice teacher, Leah Russel, took her to an audition held by Universal Pictures movie producer Joe Pasternak in 1938. Pasternak had guided Deanna Durbin to stardom, and with Durbin now advancing to ingénue roles, Pasternak wanted a younger singer to make the same kind of musicals. Up against hundreds of others, Gloria Jean won the audition. Under contract to Universal, she was given the leading role in the feature The Under-Pup (1939),[4] and became instantly popular with moviegoers. Universal's publicity department initially claimed the sin
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The Music City Story
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Circus Themes
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Anna Maire, Deanna, Gloria, Jane
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Hollywood Screen Stars Sing
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The Music City Story [Disc 1] I'm A Working Man/early to mid-1950's
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The Music City Story [Disc 1]
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Easter Songs & Hymns
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The Music City Story (Disc 1)
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Great Vocalists of the Big Band Era
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Vintage Hollywood Classics
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