[2] While at Chicago, she was the assigned "big sister" of feminist theologian Janet Kalven, who recalled that Kesner later became "a close friend.
"[3] Ardmore worked as a reporter in Hollywood, specializing in celebrity profiles for magazines and newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, Good Housekeeping, and the Saturday Evening Post.
[11][12] In 1968 Ardmore was honored by the Theta Sigma Phi professional organization for women in communications, as "National Headliner of 1968.
Jane Kesner Ardmore was widowed from her second marriage in 1993, and died in 2000, at the age of 88, from complications following hip surgery.
[15] An extensive collection of Jane Ardmore's papers is archived at the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.