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About John Robert Powers
- John Robert Powers (April 16, 1892 – July 21, 1977) was an American actor and founder of a New York City-based modeling agency. In 1923, Powers founded a modeling school.
- The John Robert Powers Agency represented models who aspired to success in the Hollywood film industry.
- While Powers' clientele was overwhelmingly female, the school also represented several men.
- The agency was the subject of a 1943 musical comedy, The Powers Girl, in which Alan Mowbray portrays Powers and features Anne Shirley and Carole Landis as aspiring models. Powers married Alice Burton (1902–1972).
- They are buried together in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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