1. Penny Singleton provided the voice of Jane Jetson in the animated series The Jetsons from 1962 to 1963.
19 Facts About Penny Singleton
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Behind the scenes, Penny Singleton was the first woman to serve as president of an AFL-CIO union, and served two terms as president of the American Guild of Variety Artists.
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Penny Singleton testified before a Senate subcommittee in 1962 on the union's treatment of women variety workers, and led a strike of the Radio City Rockettes in 1967.
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Penny Singleton began performing professionally as a child, and only completed sixth grade in her schooling.
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Penny Singleton sang at a silent movie theater, and toured in vaudeville as part of an act called "The Kiddie Kabaret".
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Penny Singleton sang and danced with Milton Berle, whom she had known since childhood, and actor Gene Raymond, and appeared on Broadway in Jack Benny's The Great Temptations.
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Penny Singleton toured nightclubs and in roadshows of plays and musicals.
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Penny Singleton appeared as a brunette nightclub singer in After the Thin Man, credited as Dorothy McNulty.
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Penny Singleton was cast opposite Arthur Lake in the feature film Blondie in 1938, based on the comic strip by Chic Young.
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Also in 1950, she had her own program, The Penny Singleton Show, on NBC radio.
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Penny Singleton held top billing in Go West, Young Lady, over her male co-star, Glenn Ford.
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From 1985 to 1987, Penny Singleton reprised her role for the new seasons of The Jetsons.
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Penny Singleton played Jane in The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones, Rockin' with Judy Jetson and Jetsons: The Movie.
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Penny Singleton was active in union affairs as a vocal member of the American Guild of Variety Artists.
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Penny Singleton was reinstated as a union member in 1963, after the dispute reached a legal settlement.
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Penny Singleton testified on the exploitation of women in variety work, and the union's shortcomings in representing those workers, before a United States Senate subcommittee in 1962.
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Penny Singleton married Laurence Scroggs Penny Singleton, a dentist, in 1937; although they divorced in 1939, she kept his surname.
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Penny Singleton remarried, to Robert C Sparks, a Marine Corps officer and film producer, in 1941.
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On November 12,2003, Penny Singleton died at the age of 95 of respiratory failure in Sherman Oaks, California.