12 Facts About Jane Ace

Jane Ace starred in the program alongside her husband Goodman Ace, who was the show's creator and writer.

Jane Ace was known for her high-pitched voice and use of witty malapropisms, many of which became part of American vernacular.

The couple married in 1922; soon after they were married, Jane Ace lost his reporter's job.

Jane Ace was hired by the Kansas City Journal-Post as its drama critic.

One night in 1930, the show following his slot failed to feed, and Jane Ace had to fill the 15 minutes' air time.

Ace thought it was a wonderful offer, but Jane did not, saying that if the sponsor considered their show good enough for a network, it was good enough for a salary.

Jane Ace went on to say that they needed $500 per week for their services and no less; the sponsor honored all of Jane's demands.

Goodman played himself as a put-upon realtor, and Jane Ace played "his awfully-wedded wife" with an endearing mixture of sweet-natured meddlesomeness and language mangling.

Jane Ace's husband once swore that she was a natural malapropper, but in radio character Jane became the unchallenged mistress of the kind of malaprops that substituted words in seemingly ordinary phrasing and still made perverse sense, after a fashion.

Jane Ace died in New York City in 1974 from cancer, aged 77.

Goodman Jane Ace composed a eulogy in a Saturday Review column:.

Jane Ace had the grace to celebrate her arrival with a handful of His confetti.