Jane Wyman

Jane Wyman

Birthday: 1917-01-05

Place of Birth: Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA

Biography: Jane Wyman (born Sarah Jane Mayfield; January 5, 1917 – September 10, 2007) was an American singer, dancer, and character actress of film and television. She began her film career in the 1930s, and was a prolific performer for two decades. She received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Johnny Belinda (1948), and later achieved success during the 1980s for her leading role in the television series Falcon Crest. Wyman was the first wife of Ronald Reagan. They married in 1940 and divorced in 1948, before Reagan ran for public office. She is the only person to have won an Oscar and married a future President of the United States. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jane Wyman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Stage Fright
Stage Fright

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the h...

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Pollyanna
Pollyanna

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see th...

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Gold Diggers of 1933
Gold Diggers of 1933

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to...

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Princess O'Rourke
Princess O'Rourke

A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States....

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It's a Great Feeling
It's a Great Feeling

A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big b...

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Here Comes the Groom
Here Comes the Groom

Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orpha...

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Magnificent Obsession
Magnificent Obsession

Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s on...

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The Lost Weekend
The Lost Weekend

Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... b...

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All That Heaven Allows
All That Heaven Allows

Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love wit...

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Night and Day
Night and Day

When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he ...

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Footlight Serenade
Footlight Serenade

Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy ...

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Johnny Belinda
Johnny Belinda

A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate....

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Tail Spin
Tail Spin

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, ...

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Hollywood Canteen
Hollywood Canteen

Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entert...

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Just for You
Just for You

Jordan Blake (a widower) is a successful Broadway Producer who has always been to busy for his child...

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The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of h...

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So Big
So Big

A girl of wealth comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher, and while there fall...

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The Yearling
The Yearling

Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misb...

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Larceny, Inc.
Larceny, Inc.

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can d...

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Magic Town
Magic Town

Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview...

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Make Your Own Bed
Make Your Own Bed

Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires ...

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My Favorite Spy
My Favorite Spy

The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy miss...

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The Doughgirls
The Doughgirls

Newlyweds Arthur and Vivian arrive to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., only to find it occu...

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Miracle in the Rain
Miracle in the Rain

Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York....

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Smart Blonde
Smart Blonde

Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the ma...

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Bon Voyage!
Bon Voyage!

The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana travels abroad for the once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, ...

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Flight Angels
Flight Angels

Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a docto...

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The Story of Will Rogers
The Story of Will Rogers

Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers...

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How to Commit Marriage
How to Commit Marriage

A young couple decide to live together and they wind up having a baby. They decide they should give ...

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Honeymoon for Three
Honeymoon for Three

Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he ...

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The Blue Veil
The Blue Veil

A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse....

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Three Guys Named Mike
Three Guys Named Mike

A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a success...

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Brother Rat
Brother Rat

Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married an...

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The Lady Takes a Sailor
The Lady Takes a Sailor

Jennifer Smith heads a "Consumer Reports"-type company and her reputation for honesty is her greates...

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Lucy Gallant
Lucy Gallant

A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil ...

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Holiday for Lovers
Holiday for Lovers

Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American ...

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Crime by Night
Crime by Night

A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy....

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The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring ...

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The King and the Chorus Girl
The King and the Chorus Girl

A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl....

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Ready, Willing and Able
Ready, Willing and Able

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in th...

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Bad Men of Missouri
Bad Men of Missouri

The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of Wi...

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Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll....

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Private Detective
Private Detective

A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a ...

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He Couldn't Say No
He Couldn't Say No

A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marr...

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Starlift
Starlift

To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie ge...

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Gambling on the High Seas
Gambling on the High Seas

A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justic...

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Cheyenne
Cheyenne

Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence ...

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Let's Do It Again
Let's Do It Again

Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alle...

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A Kiss in the Dark
A Kiss in the Dark

Eric Phillips's manager buys him a building with tenants, one of whom catches his eye....

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Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Tugboat Annie Sails Again

Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business....

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My Love Came Back
My Love Came Back

Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arran...

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Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio....

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The Failing of Raymond
The Failing of Raymond

On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previous...

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Wide Open Faces
Wide Open Faces

A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy....

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The Crowd Roars
The Crowd Roars

A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's...

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The Kid from Spain
The Kid from Spain

Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's...

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Alice in Movieland
Alice in Movieland

Alice wins a free trip to Hollywood and dreams about her arrival....

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One More Tomorrow
One More Tomorrow

Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christ...

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The Singing Marine
The Singing Marine

Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they p...

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Stage Struck
Stage Struck

A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress wi...

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Broadway Hostess
Broadway Hostess

Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer....

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Here Comes Carter
Here Comes Carter

A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals...

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Kid Nightingale
Kid Nightingale

A waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees t...

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Public Wedding
Public Wedding

The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fak...

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Stolen Harmony
Stolen Harmony

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to ...

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Fools for Scandal
Fools for Scandal

An incognito Hollywood star in Paris meets a penniless nobleman who follows her to London....

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Brother Rat and a Baby
Brother Rat and a Baby

Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a f...

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Freshman Love
Freshman Love

A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like ...

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An Angel from Texas
An Angel from Texas

A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show....

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Breakdowns of 1941
Breakdowns of 1941

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941....

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Slim
Slim

Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory trade...

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You're in the Army Now
You're in the Army Now

Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge....

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Blow-Ups of 1947
Blow-Ups of 1947

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947....

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The Kid from Kokomo
The Kid from Kokomo

Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston...

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The Body Disappears
The Body Disappears

Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor p...

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The Spy Ring
The Spy Ring

Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when ...

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Over the Goal
Over the Goal

The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as we...

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The Sunday Round-Up
The Sunday Round-Up

The small church, pastored by Ted Burke, in a western town is struggling to stay alive as all the me...

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George White's 1935 Scandals
George White's 1935 Scandals

A Broadway producer discovers new talent in a small Georgia town and brings them to New York for his...

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When Fear Eats the Soul
When Fear Eats the Soul

Mixing scenes of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows and Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fra...

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Elmer, the Great
Elmer, the Great

Baseball star Elmer Kane leaves the little town of Gentryville, Indiana, to join the Chicago Cubs, w...

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Anything Goes
Anything Goes

A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner...

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Rumba
Rumba

A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show....

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Cain and Mabel
Cain and Mabel

A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt....

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All the King's Horses
All the King's Horses

A Hollywood actor visits a mythical country where he looks like the king and confuses the queen....

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Polo Joe
Polo Joe

A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he ...

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Little Pioneer
Little Pioneer

In 1880 South Africa, young Betsy has an adventure involving Zulu Tribesmen, Dutch Settlers, The Vor...

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My Man Godfrey
My Man Godfrey

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is ...

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College Rhythm
College Rhythm

The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the foo...

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Harold Teen
Harold Teen

A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their...

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King of Burlesque
King of Burlesque

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway...

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Movieland Magic
Movieland Magic

Released as part of a series of WB shorts under the collective title of "Technicolor Specials" (WB p...

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Shoot Yourself Some Golf
Shoot Yourself Some Golf

Jane Wyman and Ron Reagan are given golf lessons by pro-golfer Jimmy Thompson, and watch trick shots...

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Breakdowns of 1937
Breakdowns of 1937

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937....

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Breakdowns of 1949
Breakdowns of 1949

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1949....

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The Screen Director
The Screen Director

A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is...

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Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...

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Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'
Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'

Documentary about film....

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Gold Diggers of 1937
Gold Diggers of 1937

The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a go...

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Inside the Dream Factory
Inside the Dream Factory

Faye Dunaway hosts a behind-the-scenes look at the Hollywood star-making machine....

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Amanda Fallon
Amanda Fallon

A dedicated family doctor tries to help a pregnant teen-ager....

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Breakdowns of 1942
Breakdowns of 1942

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942....

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Breakdowns of 1939
Breakdowns of 1939

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939....

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Three Lives
Three Lives

A short film made for the United Jewish Appeal, reuniting the main players behind The Sniper, writer...

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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film....

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