[1] Jane Brotherton was born in Bozeman, Montana, and grew up in Mount Vernon, Washington.

[1][2] Her father was Lawrence Langham Brotherton, a founder of the Bozeman Canning Company.

The same year, she married Tony Smith, an architect who later achieved fame as a minimalist sculptor.

[4][1][5] Her only film role was that of Clementine Brown in Sailor's Holiday (1944) opposite Arthur Lake and Shelley Winters and in which she was credited as June Lawrence.

[1] She died at age of 90 on August 5, 2005, at her home in Greenwich Village, NY.