Jane Wyman
Highest Rated: 100% The Yearling (1946)
Lowest Rated: 50% Magic Town (1947)
Birthday: Jan 5, 1917
Birthplace: St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
An Academy Award winner for "Johnny Belinda" (1948), Jane Wyman overcame a difficult childhood to become one of the most respected dramatic actresses of the late '40s and early '50s. She later received two Emmy nominations for her own television anthology series in the late Fifties, but went into semi-retirement until the early 1980s, when she was top-billed as the vicious matriarch Angela Channing in the popular primetime soap "Falcon Crest" (CBS, 1981-1990), which earned her a Golden Globe. Wyman was also noted for her marriage to future U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 1940-48 and during their time together as husband and wife, they were one of the most popular couples in Hollywood, with young fans soaking up all the information on their seemingly happy marriage in all the major movie magazines of the day. To her credit, even after he ex-husband and father of two of her children became first a California governor and then the leader of the free world, she opted to not speak publicly about Reagan for her own personal reasons, taking any details of their long-ago love story to her grave.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 83% | The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel | Granny Arrowroot (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Failing of Raymond | Mary Bloomquist (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | How to Commit Marriage | Elaine Benson (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Bon Voyage! | Unknown (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 86% | 79% | Pollyanna | Aunt Polly (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Holiday for Lovers | Mrs. Mary Dean (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Miracle in the Rain | Ruth Wood (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 91% | 81% | All That Heaven Allows | Cary Scott (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lucy Gallant | Lucy Gallant (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 88% | 71% | Magnificent Obsession | Helen Phillips (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | Let's Do It Again | Constance "Connie" Stuart (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | So Big | Selina DeJong (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | The Story of Will Rogers | Betty Rogers nee Blake (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Just for You | Carolina Hill (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 60% | 72% | Here Comes the Groom | Emmadel Jones (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Three Guys Named Mike | Marcy Lewis (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Starlift | Self | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | The Blue Veil | Louise Mason (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 91% | 68% | Stage Fright | Eve Gill (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | The Glass Menagerie | Laura Wingfield (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | It's a Great Feeling | Self | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | A Kiss in the Dark | Polly Haines (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lady Takes a Sailor | Jennifer Smith (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 91% | 89% | Johnny Belinda | Belinda McDonald (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Cheyenne | Ann Kincaid (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 50% | 37% | Magic Town | Mary Peterman (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 67% | 42% | Night and Day | Gracie Harris (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 100% | 76% | The Yearling | Orry Baxter (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One More Tomorrow | Frankie Connors (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 97% | 90% | The Lost Weekend | Helen St. James (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Doughgirls | Vivian Marsden Halstead (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | Make Your Own Bed | Susan Courtney (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Crime by Night | Robbie Vance (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Princess O'Rourke | Jean Campbell (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Larceny, Inc. | Denny Costello (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shoot Yourself Some Golf | Self | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Favorite Spy | Connie (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Body Disappears | Joan Shotesbury (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honeymoon for Three | Elizabeth Clochessy (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bad Men of Missouri | Mary Hathaway (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | You're in the Army Now | Bliss Dobson (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flight Angels | Nan Hudson (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | My Love Came Back | Joy O'Keefe (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gambling on the High Seas | Laurie Ogden (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | An Angel From Texas | Marge Allen (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tugboat Annie Sails Again | Peggy Armstrong (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tail Spin | Alabama (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Private Detective | Myrna Winslow (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kid Nightingale | Judy Craig (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Torchy Plays With Dynamite | Torchy Blaine (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Brother Rat | Claire Adams (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Crowd Roars | Vivian (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | He Couldn't Say No | Violet Coney (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wide Open Faces | Betty Martin (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Public Wedding | Flip Lane (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Ready, Willing and Able | Dot (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The King and the Chorus Girl | Babette Latour (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little Pioneer | Katie (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Dodd Takes the Air | Marjorie Day (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | Gold Diggers of 1937 | Chorus Girl (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1936 |
| 97% | 90% | My Man Godfrey | Socialite (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Smart Blonde | Dixie (Character) | - | 1936 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Falcon Crest | Angela Channing (Character) | 1981-1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie's Angels | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sixth Sense | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Three Sons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Red Skelton Show | Unknown (Character) | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Startime | Unknown (Character) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fireside Theatre |
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1953 |