• 2 December 1948
  •  Los Angeles, California, USA

Sally Jane Bruce

Biography

Former child actress and singer Sally Jane Bruce was born on December 2, 1948 in Los Angeles California, to country singer Jewell Edwards. Her big break came when she won a contest by singing with a full orchestra. She had already worked on TV, radio and on Kids Will Be Kids (1954) when she was chosen by Charles Laughton to star at five-year-old against Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish in the 1955 classic film noir The Night of the Hunter. She later worked as a grade school teacher in Santa Maria, California and now lives lives in Arroyo Grande, California.