Moving Out West
In 1915, Elizabeth Peters decided to move her children to California for an extended vacation, which became permanent. Fred, their father, stayed behind in Fort Wayne, hoping to convince his wife to return, to no avail. Elizabeth and her kids set up their new life in Los Angeles, where Jane continued to get into trouble, ruining her dresses, being unladylike.
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Ultimately, being a tomboy paid off for Jane, who was spotted playing baseball by a neighbor who called over director Allan Dawn. He hired twelve-year-old Jane to appear in her first feature film, A Perfect Crime. Dawn shared that Jane was “a cute-looking little tomboy… knocking the hell out of the other kids, playing better baseball than they were.”