Jan Chaney Profile

Jan Chaney

c. 37	is born in Boston, Massachusetts
?	is raised in Long Beach, California
?	graduates from Long Beach Polytechnic High School
?	is discovered in a high school play in Long Beach and given her first part on TV's "On Trial" opposite Joseph Cotton
March 55	will be tested by 20th Century-Fox
July 56	is reported going steady with Tab Hunter
August 56	might accept the offer to play Ethel Merman’s daughter in Broadway’s Happy Hunting
November 56	Tab Hunter gives her a fur stole
December 56	is a foursome with Tab Hunter and Tony Perkins and his fair lady, Norma Moore. "These evenings she's often dated by Tab."
February 57	resides in Long Beach, California
April 57	is reported "happy for singing Tab Hunter"
September 57	is signed by producer Richard Ney for his upcoming Portofino. "She auditioned for him in the lobby of the Beverly Hills hotel singing three songs..."
58	Silver Screen tags her "an old flame of Tab Hunter"
Summer 58	stars as Lola in Damn Yankees at the Music Circus in Lambertville, New Jersey
?	is understudy to Gwen Verdon in Redhead
c. July 59	marries child actor-turned-CBS executive Ronnie Liss
Summer 59	plays Daisy Mae in Li’l Abner at the Music Circus in Lambertville, New Jersey
September 60	is scheduled to open in The Hero in New York in January
	entertains at a sales meeting of the Lone Star Gas Company and Caloric Appliance Corporation in Abilene, Texas
August 63	is Irma La Douce at the Music Circus in Lambertville, New Jersey
60s	is married to Peter Jones

Sources: The Coshocton Tribune, The Times Recorder, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Lethbridge Herald, Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Mansfield News-Journal, The Hammond Times, Modern Screen, Photoplay, Silver Screen, Humboldt Standard, The Lima News, The Abilene Reporter-News, The Daily Intelligencer
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