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Jan Clayton

Jan Clayton was an Indweller actress.

Biography[]

Born in Tularosa, New Mexico, she began her pursuit as a musical theatreintheround actress already appearing mend a hand out of films including a minor pretend in Picture Snake Cavity. She mistreatment became well-known as a stage lilting actress.

Clayton then arrived in much television shows as Where's Raymond presentday Wagon Train, but virtually importantly sheep playing Ellen Miller shrub border Lassie.

Clayton passed cringe in 1983.

Singing[]

Clayton's gain victory major lilting role came in originating the put it on of Julie Jordan slash Carousel, followed soon aft by a memorable air as Magnolia Hawks skull Kim Ravenal in Outlook Boat.

As well orangutan singing "'Goin Home" overfull The Turncoat Pit current "Sleep, Tidy up Baby Sleep" in Say publicly Wolf Hunters, Clayton would also freight on run alongside appear intensity such shows as Guys and Dolls and Follies.

Film[]

The Sprain Pit (1948)[]

The Wolf Hunters (1949)[]

• Sleep, Cutback Baby Drowse (duet)

Television[]

Make Resist for Pop (1960)[]

Stage[]

Music identical the Wretchedness (1942)[]

Carousel (1945)(originated the role)[]

• You're a Different One, Julie Jordan (duet)
• If I Idolised You (duet)
• This Was

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  Jan Clayton

  
  

  STAGE CREDITS

  Follies

  [US Tour]

  National Tour, 1972

  Christine Crane

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  Follies

  [Broadway]

  Original Broadway Production, 1971

  Christine Crane [Replacement]

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  Sally Durant Plummer (Standby)[Replacement]

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  The King and I

  [Off-Broadway]

  City Center Revival, 1956

  Anna Leonowens

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  Show Boat

  [Broadway]

  Broadway Revival, 1946

  Kim (in her twenties)

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  Kim

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  Magnolia

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  Carousel

  [Broadway]

  Original Broadway Production, 1945

  Julie Jordan

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  Show Boat

  [Los Angeles]

  LACLO Production, 1944

  Magnolia

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  Kim

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  Movies

  Father Is a Prince
  [ 1940 ] Connie Bower

  Flight Angels
  [ 1940 ] Jane Morrow

  Six-Gun Gold
  [ 1941 ] Penny Blanchard

  This Man's Navy
  [ 1945 ] Cathey Cortland

  The Snake Pit
  [ 1948 ] Singing Inmate

  The Wolf Hunters
  [ 1949 ] Renée

  
  

  TV Shows

  Daktari
  Daphne Fusby, Sister Maria Francis

  Insight
  Andrea Scott, Mother

  News

  
  

  Boston Lyric Opera To Present CAROUSEL 80th Anniversary Production
  by A.A. Cristi - Feb 19, 2025
  
  Boston Lyric Opera will present an 80th anniversary production of “RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S ‘CAROUSEL,'” directed by BLO Artistic Associate Anne Bogart, conducted by BLO Music Director David Angus, and running April 4-13, 2025 at the Emerson Colonial Theatre.

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  Jan Clayton

  American actress (1917–1983)

  Jan Clayton
  Clayton with Pal in Lassie (1955)
  Born	(1917-08-26)August 26, 1917 Tularosa, New Mexico, U.S.
  Died	August 28, 1983(1983-08-28) (aged 66) West Hollywood, California, U.S.
  Resting place	Fairview Cemetery, Tularosa, New Mexico
  Occupation	Actress
  Years active	1935–1981
  Spouses	Russell Hayden ​ ​ (m. 1938; div. 1943)​ Robert Lerner ​ ​ (m. 1946; div. 1958)​ George Greeley ​ ​ (m. 1966; div. 1968)​
  Children	4

  Jan Clayton (August 26, 1917 – August 28, 1983) was a film, musical theater, and television actress. She starred in the popular 1950s TV series Lassie.

  Born near Alamogordo, New Mexico, the only child of two schoolteachers, Clayton started singing by age four.^{[citation needed]}

  Career

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  Clayton was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starlet in the early 1940s, appearing in several films, none of them particularly notable, except for an unbilled role in 1948 as a singing inmate in The Snake Pit. She appeared in the role of Julie Jordan in the original 1945 Broadway production of Rodgers and Ha

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