1. Jane Wyman was the first wife of actor and future US President Ronald Reagan.
73 Facts About Jane Wyman
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Jane Wyman received four nominations for Academy Award for Best Actress between 1946 and 1954, winning one for Johnny Belinda.
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In 1955, Jane Wyman transitioned into television, forming her own production company Lewman Productions Ltd.
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Jane Wyman was made the producer, host, and frequent star of the last three seasons of NBC's Fireside Theatre, which was rebranded with Wyman's name.
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Jane Wyman's career declined shortly after, and she went into virtual retirement for several intervals of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Jane Wyman's career resurged when she appeared on the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest, portraying the villainous matriarch Angela Channing.
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Jane Wyman retired in 1993, after appearing in an episode of Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman.
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Jane Wyman died from natural causes in 2007, at the age of 90.
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Sarah Jane Wyman Mayfield was born on January 5,1917, in St Joseph, Missouri, to Gladys Hope and Manning Jeffries Mayfield.
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Jane Wyman's father was a meal company laborer and her mother was a doctor's stenographer and office assistant.
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Jane Wyman took their surname unofficially, including in her school records and on her marriage certificate to first husband Ernest Wyman.
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In 1930, the two moved back to Missouri, where Sarah Jane Wyman attended Lafayette High School in Saint Joseph.
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Jane Wyman began her 60-year show business career as an extra on The Kid from Spain, Gold Diggers of 1933, Elmer, the Great, and Harold Teen.
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Jane Wyman had taken classes with Edward Albert Prinz at Prinz's Dancing Academy back in St Joseph, Missouri.
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Jane Wyman then went to Universal Studios for My Man Godfrey.
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At Warner Bros, Jane Wyman was in Freshman Love and Bengal Tiger, Stage Struck, Cain and Mabel, and Here Comes Carter.
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Jane Wyman had small parts in Polo Joe, and Gold Diggers of 1937 but a bigger one in Smart Blonde, the first of the Torchy Blane series.
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Jane Wyman appeared in Ready, Willing and Able, The King and the Chorus Girl, and Slim.
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Jane Wyman had the lead in Little Pioneer, a short, and parts in The Singing Marine.
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Jane Wyman retained use of the surname for the remainder of her career.
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Jane Wyman had a supporting part in Mr Dodd Takes the Air and was the female lead in some "B" films, such as The Spy Ring, He Couldn't Say No with Frank McHugh and Wide Open Faces with Joe E Brown.
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Jane Wyman was borrowed by MGM to play a supporting part in The Crowd Roars.
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Back at Warner Brothers, Wyman was cast as one of the leads in Brother Rat for Hal B Wallis.
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Jane Wyman was borrowed by 20th Century Fox for a supporting role in Tail Spin, followed by The Kid from Kokomo with Pat O'Brien and Morris.
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Now established, Jane Wyman was cast in Kid Nightingale with John Payne, Private Detective with Foran, Brother Rat and a Baby with Reagan, An Angel from Texas with Albert, Flight Angels, and Gambling on the High Seas with Wayne Morris.
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Jane Wyman had supporting roles in "A" films such as My Love Came Back, starring Olivia de Havilland and Jeffrey Lynn.
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Jane Wyman was a supporting role to Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three and was Dennis Morgan's leading lady in Bad Men of Missouri.
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Jane Wyman made The Body Disappears with Jeffrey Lynn and You're in the Army Now with Jimmy Durante; in the latter she and Regis Toomey had the longest screen kiss in cinema history: 3 minutes and 5 seconds.
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At Twentieth Century Fox, Jane Wyman was a supporting actor to Betty Grable in Footlight Serenade then back at Warners supported Olivia de Havilland in Princess O'Rourke.
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Jane Wyman was one of many stars to cameo in Hollywood Canteen.
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Jane Wyman finally gained critical attention with The Lost Weekend, made by the team of Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.
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Jane Wyman remained a supporting actor in One More Tomorrow, and Night and Day.
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However Jane Wyman was borrowed by MGM for the female lead in The Yearling, and was nominated for the 1946 Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Jane Wyman was leading lady for Dennis Morgan in Cheyenne and James Stewart in RKO's Magic Town.
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Jane Wyman spent over six months preparing for the film which was an enormous hit and won Jane Wyman a Best Actress Oscar.
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Jane Wyman was the first person in the sound era to earn the award without speaking a line of dialogue.
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Jane Wyman did two comedies, A Kiss in the Dark with David Niven and The Lady Takes a Sailor with Morgan, then made a thriller in England, Stage Fright for Alfred Hitchcock.
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Jane Wyman played Laura in The Glass Menagerie, and went to MGM for Three Guys Named Mike, a popular comedy.
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Jane Wyman was one of many stars in Warner Bros' Starlift.
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Jane Wyman was the female lead in The Story of Will Rogers and Paramount reunited her and Crosby in Just for You.
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Jane Wyman expressed interest around this time of doing no more "weepy" roles.
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Jane Wyman had a huge success when producer Ross Hunter cast her alongside Rock Hudson in Magnificent Obsession.
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Jane Wyman did Miracle in the Rain with Van Johnson.
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Jane Wyman was meant to follow this with Annabella but it appears to have not been made.
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Jane Wyman's brief recording career with Decca Records extended between 1951 and 1953.
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Jane Wyman's television acting debut was the 1955 episode "Amelia" of the anthology series General Electric Theater produced by MCA Inc.
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Wyman announced her first TV series The Jane Wyman Show in 1955.
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Jane Wyman hosted every episode, acted in half, and was a producer.
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Jane Wyman continued to guest star on TV shows like Checkmate, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, The Investigators, Wagon Train, and Insight.
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Jane Wyman made the occasional acting appearance, mostly on television.
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Jane Wyman returned to films with How to Commit Marriage.
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Jane Wyman continued to work in the 1970s, guest starring on My Three Sons; The Bold Ones: The New Doctors; The Sixth Sense; and Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law and her first film for television, The Failing of Raymond.
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Jane Wyman starred in a pilot for a TV series Amanda Fallon but it was not picked up.
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Jane Wyman accepted a featured role in the television movie, The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel.
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Jane Wyman said she wanted to make it as it was a change from "the four handkerchief bits" she was known for.
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Jane Wyman won in 1984 for Best Performance By an Actress in a TV Series.
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Later in the show's run, Jane Wyman suffered several health problems.
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Jane Wyman's doctors told her that she should end her acting career.
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At age 16, Jane Wyman married salesman Ernest Eugene Jane Wyman in Los Angeles, California, on April 8,1933.
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Jane Wyman was 20 when she married dress manufacturer Myron Martin Futterman in New Orleans on June 29,1937.
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Jane Wyman wanted children but he did not, and they separated after only three months.
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In 1938, Jane Wyman co-starred with Ronald Reagan in Brother Rat.
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Jane Wyman, who was a registered Republican, said that their divorce was due to political differences; Ronald Reagan was still a Democrat at the time.
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When Reagan was inaugurated as president on January 20,1981, Jane Wyman became the first ex-wife of a US president in American history.
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On November 1,1952, Wyman married German-American Hollywood music director and composer Frederick M "Fred" Karger at El Montecito Presbyterian Church, Santa Barbara.
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Jane Wyman, who had converted to Catholicism in 1953, never remarried.
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Jane Wyman was a member of the Good Shepherd Parish and the Catholic Motion Picture Guild in Beverly Hills, California.
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Jane Wyman was a recluse and made only a few public appearances in her last years in part due to suffering from arthritis.
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Jane Wyman suffered from Type 1 diabetes from a very young age.
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Jane Wyman attended the funeral of her long-time friend Loretta Young in 2000.
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Jane Wyman attended her daughter's funeral in 2001 after Maureen died of melanoma, and Ronald Reagan's funeral in 2004.
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On September 10,2007, Jane Wyman died in her sleep of natural causes at her home in Rancho Mirage, California, at age 90.
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Jane Wyman was interred at Forest Lawn Mortuary and Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.