Background
Jane Brotherton was born in Bozeman, Montana and grew up in Mountain. Vernon, Washington. Her father was Lawrence Langham Brotherton, a founder of the Bozeman Canning Company.
Jane Brotherton was born in Bozeman, Montana and grew up in Mountain. Vernon, Washington. Her father was Lawrence Langham Brotherton, a founder of the Bozeman Canning Company.
In 1943 she, created the small role of Gertie in Oklahoma! on Broadway. In 1950 she traveled to Europe and began an opera career in Germany. The next year she sang the part of Elettra in the 1951 Salzburg Festival presentation of Idomeneo, conducted by Georg Solti.
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Smith was one of the last survivors of the central circle of Abstract Expressionist artists and companions who came to the fore in New York in the 1940s and "50s. Her husband was close to Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman, and she was the subject of one of Pollock"s late black-and-white paintings, Number. 7 (1952), now owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Artist
After her husband"s death, in 1980, she resumed her acting career, this time in avant-garde theater, and worked with the directors John Jesurun, Joan Jonas and Marianne Weems.
She performed the lead role in the no wave opera XS: The Opera Opus (1984-1986) that was created by composer Rhys Chatham and artist Joseph Nechvatal. Her only film role was that of Clementine Brown in Sailor"s Holiday (1944) opposite Arthur Lake and Shelley Winters and in which she was credited as June Lawrence.
Oklahoma! (1943) as Gertie Cummings (opening night cast)
Inside United States.A. (1948) in multiple roles (opening night cast)
Where"s Charley? (1948) as Donna Lucia Doctorate"Alvadorez (opening night cast).