1. Jane Pickens Hoving was an American singer on Broadway, radio and television for 20 years and later an organizer in numerous philanthropic and society events.
17 Facts About Jane Pickens
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Jane Pickens was the musical leader of the Pickens Sisters, a trio born on a Georgia plantation that reached national stardom in the 1930s with its own radio show, concert tours, and records.
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The daughters of Mr and Mrs PM Pickens, the Pickens sisters, Grace, Jane, Helen, and Patti, were born in Macon, Georgia, and grew up there and in Atlanta.
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The Pickens group earned $1 million in five years but dissolved when two sisters left to get married and a fourth, Grace, who was the group's manager, departed.
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Jane Pickens studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and the Fontainebleau in France and won fellowships at the Juilliard School where she studied voice with Anna Eugenie Schoen-Rene.
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Jane Pickens studied for two years with Marcella Sembrich, a Polish coloratura soprano.
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Jane Pickens sang in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 in a cast that included Fanny Brice and Gypsy Rose Lee.
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Jane Pickens pursued her music career alone and had wide-ranging success, from musical comedy to opera and nightclub engagements.
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Jane Pickens had the American Melody Hour on CBS radio and the Jane Pickens Show on NBC radio, as well as a program on ABC television.
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In 1954, Pickens appeared in a 15-minute ABC television musical series, The Jane Pickens Show, which was replaced in the spring by The Martha Wright Show.
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Jane Pickens frequently performed benefits for charitable causes, including events for orphans, hospitals, youths, veterans and the disabled.
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On June 6,1928, at the age of 20, Pickens married Russell A Clark.
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Jane Pickens became a noted figure at balls and other society events in New York City, Long Island and Newport.
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Jane Pickens exhibited in galleries and sold dozens of paintings for charity.
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Jane Pickens was 84 years old when she died of heart failure in Newport, Rhode Island, on February 21,1992.
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Jane Pickens had a home on Park Avenue in Manhattan.
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Jane Pickens was survived by her daughter, Marcella Clark McCormack of Newport and Manhattan, and a sister, Patti Shreve of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.