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Jane Wyman (born January 4, 1914 - although some
reliable sources also give her DOB as January 5
1917) is an American actress.  

Born Sarah Jane Mayfield in Saint Joseph,
Missouri, she later took the name Sarah Jane Fulks
in honor of the neighbor family who "unofficially
adopted" her after her parents divorced.  In 1928,
she and her mother moved to Southern California,
where her mother, Le Jerne Pichelle, tried to
start her own acting career.  When that was
unsuccessful, she turned to her daughter as an
alternative, but neither was able to move
Hollywood.  The two moved back to Missouri, where
Sarah Jane attended college, but in 1930 she began
a radio singing career, calling herself Jane
Durrell.

By 1932, she was in Hollywood, obtaining bit parts
in The Kid from Spain (as a 'Goldwyn Girl')
(1932), My Man Godfrey (1936) and Cain and Mabel
(1936). In 1939 she received her first starring
role, in Torchy Plays With Dynamite. In the
previous year, she had co-starred with Ronald
Reagan in Brother Rat. The two were married (her
third marriage, and his first) in 1940, but
divorced in 1948. They had three children; Maureen
Reagan (1941-2001), Michael Reagan (born March 18,
1945), who was adopted, and Christine Reagan (born
and died 1947).

Wyman finally gained critical notice in the film
noir The Lost Weekend.  She was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 for The
Yearling, and finally won the Oscar in 1948 for
her role as the deaf-mute rape victim in Johnny
Belinda. She was the first Oscar winner to earn
the award without speaking one line of dialogue.

The Oscar win gave her the ability to choose
meatier roles, although she still showed a liking
for musical comedy.  She worked with such
directors as Alfred Hitchcock on Stage Fright,
with Frank Capra on Here Comes the Groom and with
Michael Curtiz on The Story of Will Rogers.  She
starred in The Glass Menagerie, Just for You,
Let's Do It Again, The Blue Veil (another Oscar
nomination), So Big, Magnificent Obsession (Oscar
nomination), Lucy Gallant, All That Heaven Allows
and Miracle in the Rain.

In the 1950s, she hosted a television anthology
series, Jane Wyman Theater.  She gained fans of a
new generation in the 1980s when she starred as
the diabolical vintner Angela Channing in the
nighttime soap opera Falcon Crest.

A devout Catholic convert, Jane Wyman has lived in
reclusion for a number of years due to declining
health (she suffers from arthritis and diabetes),
and apparently tends to be seen in public only at
funerals, such as for her late daughter, Maureen
Reagan, and her late best friend Loretta Young.

==Academy Awards and Nominations==
*1955 - Nominated Academy Award for Best
Actress|Best Actress in a Leading Role -
Magnificent Obsession
*1952 - Nominated Academy Award for Best
Actress|Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Blue
Veil
*1949 - Won Academy Award for Best Actress|Best
Actress in a Leading Role - Johnny Belinda
*1947 - Nominated Academy Award for Best
Actress|Best Actress in a Leading Role - The
Yearling

Wyman has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame;
one for motion pictures at 6607 Hollywood Blvd.
and one for television at 1620 Vine Street.

==Filmography==
*The Kid from Spain (1932)
*Elmer, the Great (1933)
*All the King's Horses (1934)
*College Rhythm (1934)
*King of Burlesque (1935)
*Rumba (1935)
*George White's 1935 Scandals (1935)
*Stolen Harmony (1935)
*Anything Goes (1936)
*The Sunday Round-Up (1936) (short subject)
*Bengal Tiger (1936) (role unconfirmed)
*My Man Godfrey (1936)
*Stage Struck (1936)
*Cain and Mabel (1936)
*Here Comes Carter (1936)
*Polo Joe (1936)
*Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
*Smart Blonde (1937)
*Ready, Willing and Able (1937)
*The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)
*Slim (1937)
*The Singing Marine (1937)
*Public Wedding (1937)
*Little Pioneer (1937) (short subject)
*Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937)
*Over the Goal (1937)
*The Spy Ring (1938)
*He Couldn't Say No (1938)
*Fools for Scandal (1938)
*Wide Open Faces (1938)
*The Crowd Roars (1938)
*Brother Rat (1938)
*Tail Spin (1939)
*The Kid from Kokomo (1939)
*Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite (1939)
*Kid Nightingale (1939)
*Private Detective (1939)
*Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
*An Angel from Texas (1940)
*Flight Angels (1940)
*My Love Came Back (1940)
*Gambling on the High Seas (1940)
*Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)
*Honeymoon for Three (1941)
*Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
*You're in the Army Now (1941)
*The Body Disappears (1941)
*Sports Parade: Shoot Yourself Some Golf (1942)
(short subject)
*Larceny, Inc. (1942)
*My Favorite Spy (1942)
*Footlight Serenade (1942)
*Princess O'Rourke (1943)
*Make Your Own Bed (1944)
*The Doughgirls (1944)
*Crime by Night (1944)
*Hollywood Canteen (1944) (Cameo)
*The Lost Weekend (1945)
*One More Tomorrow (1946)
*Night and Day (1946)
*The Yearling (1946)
*Cheyenne (1947)
*Magic Town (1947)
*Johnny Belinda (1948)
*A Kiss in the Dark (1949)
*It's a Great Feeling (1949) (Cameo)
*The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949)
*Stage Fright (1950)
*The Glass Menagerie (1950)
*Three Guys Named Mike (1951)
*The Screen Director (1951) (short subject)
*Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards (1951) (short
subject)
*Here Comes the Groom (1951)
*The Blue Veil (1951)
*Starlift (1951) (Cameo)
*The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
*Just for You (1952)
*Three Lives (1953) (short subject) 
*Let's Do It Again (1953)
*So Big (1953)
*Magnificent Obsession (1954)
*Hollywood Mothers and Fathers (1955) (short
subject)
*Lucy Gallant (1955)
*All That Heaven Allows (1955)
*Miracle in the Rain (1956)
*Holiday for Lovers (1959)
*Pollyanna (1960)
*Bon Voyage! (1962)
*How to Commit Marriage (1969)
*Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996)
(documentary)
*Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997)
(documentary)

==TV Work==
*Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre
(1955-1958)
*Summer Playhouse (host in 1957)
*The Failing of Raymond (1971)
*Amanda Fallon (1973) (unsold TV pilot)
*The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
(1979)
*Falcon Crest (1981-1990)

==External links==
*imdb name|id=0943837|name=Jane Wyman

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Jane Wyman (born January 4, 1914 - although some
reliable sources also give her DOB as January 5
1917) is an American actress.  

Born Sarah Jane Mayfield in Saint Joseph,
Missouri, she later took the name Sarah Jane Fulks
in honor of the neighbor family who "unofficially
adopted" her after her parents divorced.  In 1928,
she and her mother moved to Southern California,
where her mother, Le Jerne Pichelle, tried to
start her own acting career.  When that was
unsuccessful, she turned to her daughter as an
alternative, but neither was able to move
Hollywood.  The two moved back to Missouri, where
Sarah Jane attended college, but in 1930 she began
a radio singing career, calling herself Jane
Durrell.

By 1932, she was in Hollywood, obtaining bit parts
in The Kid from Spain (as a 'Goldwyn Girl')
(1932), My Man Godfrey (1936) and Cain and Mabel
(1936). In 1939 she received her first starring
role, in Torchy Plays With Dynamite. In the
previous year, she had co-starred with Ronald
Reagan in Brother Rat. The two were married (her
third marriage, and his first) in 1940, but
divorced in 1948. They had three children; Maureen
Reagan (1941-2001), Michael Reagan (born March 18,
1945), who was adopted, and Christine Reagan (born
and died 1947).

Wyman finally gained critical notice in the film
noir The Lost Weekend.  She was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 for The
Yearling, and finally won the Oscar in 1948 for
her role as the deaf-mute rape victim in Johnny
Belinda. She was the first Oscar winner to earn
the award without speaking one line of dialogue.

The Oscar win gave her the ability to choose
meatier roles, although she still showed a liking
for musical comedy.  She worked with such
directors as Alfred Hitchcock on Stage Fright,
with Frank Capra on Here Comes the Groom and with
Michael Curtiz on The Story of Will Rogers.  She
starred in The Glass Menagerie, Just for You,
Let's Do It Again, The Blue Veil (another Oscar
nomination), So Big, Magnificent Obsession (Oscar
nomination), Lucy Gallant, All That Heaven Allows
and Miracle in the Rain.

In the 1950s, she hosted a television anthology
series, Jane Wyman Theater.  She gained fans of a
new generation in the 1980s when she starred as
the diabolical vintner Angela Channing in the
nighttime soap opera Falcon Crest.

A devout Catholic convert, Jane Wyman has lived in
reclusion for a number of years due to declining
health (she suffers from arthritis and diabetes),
and apparently tends to be seen in public only at
funerals, such as for her late daughter, Maureen
Reagan, and her late best friend Loretta Young.

==Academy Awards and Nominations==
*1955 - Nominated Academy Award for Best
Actress|Best Actress in a Leading Role -
Magnificent Obsession
*1952 - Nominated Academy Award for Best
Actress|Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Blue
Veil
*1949 - Won Academy Award for Best Actress|Best
Actress in a Leading Role - Johnny Belinda
*1947 - Nominated Academy Award for Best
Actress|Best Actress in a Leading Role - The
Yearling

Wyman has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame;
one for motion pictures at 6607 Hollywood Blvd.
and one for television at 1620 Vine Street.

==Filmography==
*The Kid from Spain (1932)
*Elmer, the Great (1933)
*All the King's Horses (1934)
*College Rhythm (1934)
*King of Burlesque (1935)
*Rumba (1935)
*George White's 1935 Scandals (1935)
*Stolen Harmony (1935)
*Anything Goes (1936)
*The Sunday Round-Up (1936) (short subject)
*Bengal Tiger (1936) (role unconfirmed)
*My Man Godfrey (1936)
*Stage Struck (1936)
*Cain and Mabel (1936)
*Here Comes Carter (1936)
*Polo Joe (1936)
*Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
*Smart Blonde (1937)
*Ready, Willing and Able (1937)
*The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)
*Slim (1937)
*The Singing Marine (1937)
*Public Wedding (1937)
*Little Pioneer (1937) (short subject)
*Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937)
*Over the Goal (1937)
*The Spy Ring (1938)
*He Couldn't Say No (1938)
*Fools for Scandal (1938)
*Wide Open Faces (1938)
*The Crowd Roars (1938)
*Brother Rat (1938)
*Tail Spin (1939)
*The Kid from Kokomo (1939)
*Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite (1939)
*Kid Nightingale (1939)
*Private Detective (1939)
*Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
*An Angel from Texas (1940)
*Flight Angels (1940)
*My Love Came Back (1940)
*Gambling on the High Seas (1940)
*Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)
*Honeymoon for Three (1941)
*Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
*You're in the Army Now (1941)
*The Body Disappears (1941)
*Sports Parade: Shoot Yourself Some Golf (1942)
(short subject)
*Larceny, Inc. (1942)
*My Favorite Spy (1942)
*Footlight Serenade (1942)
*Princess O'Rourke (1943)
*Make Your Own Bed (1944)
*The Doughgirls (1944)
*Crime by Night (1944)
*Hollywood Canteen (1944) (Cameo)
*The Lost Weekend (1945)
*One More Tomorrow (1946)
*Night and Day (1946)
*The Yearling (1946)
*Cheyenne (1947)
*Magic Town (1947)
*Johnny Belinda (1948)
*A Kiss in the Dark (1949)
*It's a Great Feeling (1949) (Cameo)
*The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949)
*Stage Fright (1950)
*The Glass Menagerie (1950)
*Three Guys Named Mike (1951)
*The Screen Director (1951) (short subject)
*Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards (1951) (short
subject)
*Here Comes the Groom (1951)
*The Blue Veil (1951)
*Starlift (1951) (Cameo)
*The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
*Just for You (1952)
*Three Lives (1953) (short subject) 
*Let's Do It Again (1953)
*So Big (1953)
*Magnificent Obsession (1954)
*Hollywood Mothers and Fathers (1955) (short
subject)
*Lucy Gallant (1955)
*All That Heaven Allows (1955)
*Miracle in the Rain (1956)
*Holiday for Lovers (1959)
*Pollyanna (1960)
*Bon Voyage! (1962)
*How to Commit Marriage (1969)
*Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996)
(documentary)
*Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997)
(documentary)

==TV Work==
*Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre
(1955-1958)
*Summer Playhouse (host in 1957)
*The Failing of Raymond (1971)
*Amanda Fallon (1973) (unsold TV pilot)
*The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
(1979)
*Falcon Crest (1981-1990)

==External links==
*imdb name|id=0943837|name=Jane Wyman