Jane Wyman

Biography

Jane Wyman (January 5, 1917 – September 10, 2007) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress. Her most prolific appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s and included her best known film roles in Johnny Belinda, for which she won an Oscar, and Magnificent Obsession opposite Rock Hudson. The actress became known to new generations in the 1980s, not only for her leading role as the malevolent matriarch Angela Gioberti Channing on the hit prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest, but because of her prior marriage to Ronald Reagan, a former actor who became President of the United States. After Jane dropped out of Lafayette in 1932, at age 15, she returned to Hollywood, taking on odd jobs as a manicurist and a switchboard operator, before obtaining small parts in films The Kid from Spain (as a "Goldwyn Girl") (1932), My Man Godfrey (1936) and Cain and Mabel (1936). After changing her surname from Durrell to Wyman, she began her career as a contract player with Warner Bros. in 1936. Her big break came the following year, when she received her first starring role in Public Wedding, but it would be nine long years before her movie career finally took off. Jane Wyman died at the age of 90[1] at her Rancho Mirage home on Monday, September 10, 2007,[23] having long suffered from arthritis and diabetes. Wyman's son, Michael Reagan, released a statement saying, "I have lost a loving mother, my children Cameron and Ashley have lost a loving grandmother, my wife Colleen has lost a loving friend she called Mom and Hollywood has lost the classiest lady to ever grace the silver screen."[24] It was reported that Wyman died in her sleep of natural causes. Since she was a member of the Dominican order of the Catholic church, she was buried in a nun's habit. She was interred at Forest Lawn Mortuary and Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California. Source: Wikipedia

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Birth Name

Sarah Jane Mayfield

Birth Place

St. Joseph, Missouri, États-Unis

Birth Date

1/5/1917

Death Date

9/10/2007
Known For
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Stage Fright

Eve Gill

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The Lost Weekend

Helen St. James

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All That Heaven Allows

Cary Scott

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Pollyanna

Aunt Polly Harrington

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Magnificent Obsession

Helen Phillips

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The Yearling

Orry Baxter

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Johnny Belinda

Belinda McDonald

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Larceny, Inc.

Denny Costello

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Magic Town

Mary Peterman

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Bon Voyage!

Katie Willard

Starring In
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78/52

Cary Scott (archive footage)

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Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me

Self

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Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'

Self / Eve Gill

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Edith Head: The Paramount Years

(archive footage)

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Off the Menu - The Last Days of Chasen's

Herself (also archive footage)

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The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

Granny Arrowroot

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The Failing of Raymond

Mary Bloomquist

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How to Commit Marriage

Elaine Benson

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Bon Voyage!

Katie Willard

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Bon Voyage!

Katie Willard

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Pollyanna

Aunt Polly Harrington

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Holiday for Lovers

Mrs. Mary Dean

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Miracle in the Rain

Ruth Wood

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Lucy Gallant

Lucy Gallant

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All That Heaven Allows

Cary Scott

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Magnificent Obsession

Helen Phillips

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So Big

Selina DeJong

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Let's Do it Again

Constance Stuart

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Just for You

Carolina Hill

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The Story of Will Rogers

Betty Rogers

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Starlift

Jane Wyman

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The Blue Veil

Louise Mason

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Here Comes the Groom

Emmadel Jones

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The Glass Menagerie

Laura Wingfield

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Stage Fright

Eve Gill

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It's a Great Feeling

Jane Wyman (uncredited)

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A Kiss in the Dark

Polly Haines

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Johnny Belinda

Belinda McDonald

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Magic Town

Mary Peterman

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Cheyenne

Ann Kincaid

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The Yearling

Orry Baxter

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Night and Day

Gracie Harris

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One More Tomorrow

Frankie Connors

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The Lost Weekend

Helen St. James

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Breakdowns of 1944

Self (uncredited)

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Hollywood Canteen

Jane Wyman

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The Doughgirls

Vivian Marsden Halstead

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Crime by Night

Robbie Vance

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Make Your Own Bed

Susan Courtney

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Princess O'Rourke

Jean Campbell

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Breakdowns of 1942

Self (uncredited)

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Footlight Serenade

Flo La Verne

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Larceny, Inc.

Denny Costello

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Bliss Dobson

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The Body Disappears

Joan Shotesbury

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Breakdowns of 1941

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Elizabeth Clochessy

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My Love Came Back

Joy O'Keefe

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Broadway Brevities: Alice in Movieland

Carlo's Guest (uncredited)

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Private Detective

Myrna Winslow

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Kid Nightingale

Judy Craig

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Claire Adams

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Party Guest (uncredited)

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Breakdowns of 1937

Self

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Smart Blonde

Dixie - Hatcheck Girl

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Here Comes Carter

Nurse (uncredited)

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Cain and Mabel

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

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My Man Godfrey

Socialite (uncredited)

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Anything Goes

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

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King of Burlesque

Dancer (uncredited)

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Gold Diggers of 1937

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

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George White's 1935 Scandals

Chorine (uncredited)

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Harold Teen

Graduate (uncredited)

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Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Digger (uncredited)

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Game spectator (uncredited)

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The Kid from Spain

Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)

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