Sybil Jason became a naturalized United States citizen in 1952. Rossi, producer of The New Price Is Right. Their daughter, Toni Maryanna Rossi, is married to Phillip W. Jason married Anthony Albert Fromlak (aka Anthony Drake) on 30 December 1950. These films - The Little Princess (1939) and The Blue Bird (1940) - supported Temple, who became her lifelong friend. had hoped, and her film career ended after playing two supporting roles at 20th-Century Fox. Jason never became the major rival to Shirley Temple that Warner Bros. Warners also starred her in The Captain's Kid (1937), and four Vitaphone two-reelers filmed in Technicolor: Changing of the Guard, A Day at Santa Anita, Little Pioneer, and The Littlest Diplomat. most popular stars, including Kay Francis in I Found Stella Parish (1935), Al Jolson in The Singing Kid (1936), Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart in The Great O'Malley (1937), and again with Kay Francis in Comet Over Broadway (1938). Jason followed this with supporting roles opposite some of Warner Bros. Her American film debut came as the lead in Little Big Shot (1935), directed by Michael Curtiz and co-starring Glenda Farrell, Robert Armstrong, and Edward Everett Horton. The test was a success, resulting in Warner Bros. Irving Asher, the head of Warner Bros.' London studio, saw Jason's performance in Barnacle Bill and arranged for her to make a screen test for the studio. Her theatre work led to appearances on radio and phonograph records as well as a supporting role in the film Barnacle Bill (1935). The apex of her career came with a concert performance with Frances Day at London's Palace Theatre. She was introduced to the theatre-going public of London by way of her uncle, Harry Jacobson, a then-popular London orchestra leader and also pianist for Gracie Fields. ( February 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īorn in Cape Town, South Africa, on 23 November 1927, Sybil Jason began playing the piano at age two and, a year later, began making public appearances doing impersonations of Maurice Chevalier. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.

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