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You may know her as the famed “Fascination” torch singer or recall her as a regular showstopper in the glory days of the Kennebunkport Playhouse. Forever glamorous Jane Morgan takes us on a backstage tour of her glittering gowns.
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BY GWE N THO MP SON
hat inspired you to weed through your wardrobe now?
Since my husband [film producer and concert promoter Jerry Weintraub] passed away in 2015, I’ve been coming up to Kennebunkport much more, so I’ve had time to work on some projects I’ve been wanting to do. One of them was to find a good purpose for all of my dresses I wore on the stage, because they were packed away in boxes for such a long time and no one was getting to see all these fabulous pieces by famous designers like Kathryn Kuhn, Donald Brooks, Stephen Yearick, Ben Reig, Ruben Panis, Oleg Cassini, Monte Streitfield, 46 P O R T L A N D MAGAZINE
They’re so magnificent it’s hard to believe I even wore these things. Some of them are so intricate and complicated you’d have to have a road map to get into one of them.”
FROM TOP: STAFF PHOTO; COURTESY JANE MORGAN
Chanteuse Mogul
