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Jane Wyman Wiki Biography

Sarah Jane Mayfield was born on 5 January 1917, in Saint Joseph, Missouri USA, and was an actress, dancer, singer and philanthropist, best known for her acting career that spanned seven decades. She was also the first wife of 40th United States President Ronald Reagan. All of her efforts have helped put her net worth to where it was prior to her passing in 2007.

How rich was Jane Wyman? As of early-2017, sources inform us of a net worth that was at $15 million, mostly earned through a successful career in entertainment. Some of her projects included “Public Wedding”, “Magnificent Obsession”, and “Johnny Belinda”. She won numerous awards and all of these achievements ensured the position of her wealth.

Jane had a very unsettled family life, with her father dying when she was young after her parents’ divorce. She lived with a foster family, and later attended Lafayette High School, where she started a radio singing career under the name Jane Durrell. She dropped out of high school at age 15 and took odd jobs in Hollywood, to support herself while she got small parts in films such as “My Man Godfrey”. In 1936, she signed a contract with Warner Brothers which led her to star in “Public Wedding”, so her net worth was established.

In 1939, Jane and Regis Toomey had the longest screen kiss in cinema history in “You’re in the Army Now”. Six years later, she appeared in the noir film “The Lost Weekend” for which she got critical acclaim. Her net worth started to increase after her Academy Award nomination for her performance in “The Yearling”, and two years later she would win an Academy Award after portraying a rape victim in “Johnny Belinda”, making her the first person in the sound era to win an Oscar without speaking a line of dialogue. This led her to appear in more high profile roles including “Stage Fright”, “The Story of Will Rogers”, “Magnificent Obsession”, and “Holiday for Lovers”.

For television, Wyman made her first guest appearance in an episode of “General Electric Theater”. This then continued with more television opportunities in “Wagon Train”, “The Investigators”, and “The Ford Show”. Her net worth continued to build, and she became the hostess of “The Bell Telephone Hour”. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her show “Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theater”, but her popularity started declining, and she went into semi-retirement for most of the 1970s. She made a resurgence in 1981 in the soap opera “Falcon Crest” which aired until 1990; the series was very successful and was a ratings hit, and for her role as Angela Channing, Jane was five times nominated for a Soap Opera Digest Award, and for two Golden Globe Awards. However, later in the show her health was becoming a problem which led her to miss episodes; she was absent for most of the final season.

For her personal life, it is known that Jane was married five times, firstly to Ernest Eugene Wyman in 1933, which led her to use the Wyman surname professionally. They divorced after two years, and in 1937 she married Myron Martin Futterman, but they separated after just three months and divorced a year later. In 1940, she married Ronald Raegan and they had three children together – their divorce made Raegan the first US president to have been divorced. In 1952, Wyman married Fredrick Maxwell Karger, but they divorced in 1955, however, they remarried in 1961 before divorcing again in 1965. Jane passed away in her sleep at her home at the age of 90 in 2007.

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Jane Wyman Quick Info

Jane Wyman Trademarks

1. Short stature
2. Usually played women who either become engaged or soon get married.
3. Played roles that were either physically challenged or disabled.
4. Her hairdo, bangs over her forehead.
5. Her husky voice.

Jane Wyman Quotes

• [Who recalled about the dwindling family finances that made it very hard for her to find a job]: Well, it didn’t last long. I wasted more pies than I sold. So I was fired.
• [Who had been too fast to deny that some sources that her mother talked her into becoming an actress]: The depression had started and my family was flat broke. I mean, we lost everything, except the little roofs over our heads. My mother wanted me to continue my education, but I didn’t have the grades to get into college because I had goofed off in high school. Besides, we needed the money.
• Where else can you meet such fascinating people and go to such places as people in our business do? It’s a fabulous life.
• [on her off-camera Falcon Crest (1981) relationships of the final season]: I love to work with David Selby, Lorenzo Lamas can do almost anything. He’s a wonderful dramatic actor, I said, ‘I want Rod Taylor in the show.’ He was occupied doing something else. I said ‘We’ll wait.’
• [on former husband Ronald Reagan] Ask him the time and he’ll tell you how the watch was made.
• [1982] When I first got into TV, it really was in its embryonic stage. Loretta [Young] and I both started our series at about the same time. And the pace! I had no idea you began work at 6 in the morning and quit at 10 at night, and that after shooting you went to your office to get the next scripts started – and it goes on and on and on. I’d limp home over that lousy Coldwater Canyon and I’d say, ‘Well, Lord, if you want me there tomorrow, you goin’ have to git me there!’ Of course it becomes second nature, but after four years I said: That does it, and if anybody pointed a Brownie at me I was in Chicago! You know? I thought: Never again.
• I wasn’t unreceptive to working. It was just that nothing came around that I was even remotely interested in doing. Number two, I don’t think they were exactly looking for me with a fine-toothed comb.
• [on learning that she was being awarded the Best Actress Oscar for Johnny Belinda (1948)] I heard my name called and the first thing that came to my mind was ‘Did I or didn’t I put on my girdle tonight? Then I thought, ‘So what? Let it bounce.’
• [In 1988]: Egyptians have become addicted to Falcon Crest. They’ve become very attached to it.
• I never go into anything except with both feet and a lot of enthusiasm.
• [In 1993]: I was there for the first 20 years ago. I’m just pleased as punch to do it again. Watching people waste away is terrible. Nobody knows what arthritis is like unless you have it.
• [When she came back to do theatrical acting in the 1970s]: Since making How to Commit Marriage (1969) with Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason, there just wasn’t anything to get excited about. I’m hopeful The Falling of Raymond will be the start of a good deal, more activity.
• [In 1971]: Actually, I’ve worn the Dutch-bob since I was three years old. It certainly helped my career from an identity standpoint.
• People are used to me in the softer roles – but I think they get used to Angie.
• [In 1981]: The movies were changing, and the kinds of things that they were offering me I wouldn’t look at, much less do. They were sordid. I have spent too many years in my craft, in my own little niche, my own little way, and it didn’t matter to me. I didn’t want to work anyway.
• [on commenting her newspaper interview in 1981 about her almost 50 year career in films]: I’ve been through four different cycles in pictures: the brassy blonde, then came the musicals, the high dramas, then the inauguration of television.
• [In 1984]: Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.
• It was all Donald O’Connor’s idea. He suggested that I join his nightclub act when he plays at Harrah’s at Lake Tahoe this month. I couldn’t think of a good reason why I shouldn’t.
• [on her popularity while playing the sixty-something Angela Channing on Falcon Crest]: It’s not that she’s vicious, it’s that she wants her own way. She’s demanding. But she’s old enough – I’m playing her in her 60s – that she can demand the respect. People cross her once in a while, and she doesn’t fight them as much as she asks ‘how can I get around this?’ It’s a different role for me. I like it. I think the closest I ever came to this kind of character before was Aunt Polly in Pollyanna. Aunt Polly was a matriarch of sorts and always held the family together. And that’s what Angie does. She’s a multi-faceted character who treats everybody differently.
• [Who said in 1985 about accepting the role of Angela Channing, 4 years earlier]: I really like her, she’s a head’s up lady. You can’t miss on a thing like this, you really can’t. If you do, you’re dumb.
• I don’t know why I’d have to cooperate because he knows everything I know. I’m just going to live my life and have fun.
• [Upon her return to Falcon Crest (1981)’s final year, after almost a year’s medical leave]: I’m back and I’m feelin’ fine and I’m really gonna raise hell.
• [As to how Falcon Crest (1981) differentiates those of: Dallas (1978), Knots Landing (1979) and Dynasty (1981)]: Our shows begin and end each week. They’re not continuous like the others. That makes our program unique. Another thing that makes it special is that sex isn’t necessary on our series. Maybe just enough to get by. It’s really an intrigue story about a dynasty family.
• [In 1989]: Remember, I’ve been in this business fifty-four years. I made eighty-six pictures and 350 television shows. I have not been idle.
• [When asked if she loved television better than film]: The reason I enjoy TV more than pictures now is that I like the pace better. You’ve got so many hours to do so much, and you have to get it done. I was on The Yearling for eleven and a half months! Sometimes we only did two pages of dialogue in four days.
• [on The Lost Weekend (1945)]: It was my biggest chance yet, and I was determined to make the most of it. I was determined to act from the inside out, to disregard all surface effects, and delve into the character of a sturdy woman who endured hardship stoically and who concealed a deeply emotional nature under a frosty, pragmatic exterior. I meditated on the role at great length; I wanted to get to the bottom of this woman’s psyche. And in doing so I dredged up all the early hardships and disappointments in my own life, looking constantly for some points of reference that would link our respective inner schemes.
• [Who said in 1964 about growing up in an unhappy, humorless household]: Shyness is not a small problem; it can cripple the whole personality. It crippled mine for many years. As a child, my only solution to the problem of shyness was to hide, to make myself as small and insignificant as possible. All through grade school I was a well-mannered little shadow who never spoke above a whisper.
• We were just two rows behind Irene Dunne. There was something about the line of her neck that convinced me she was going to get the prize. I was slumped low in my seat, sort of trying to hide so that I could sneak out. I was so sure I wouldn’t win that when I heard my name called out, I didn’t recognize it. I didn’t get up. But Jerry Wald poked me, and my handbag dropped to my lap. My lipstick and everything went rolling onto the floor. I must have been quite a sight trying to pick up things and get to the stage at the same time. I was the most surprised girl in the world.
• [on her dismissal in the last season of Falcon Crest (1981)]: I wanted to tie up the show, mention everyone who was gone – the grandfather, Melissa, Cole and Maggie, so that the loyal audience we had wouldn’t feel cheated they they had been taken in a different direction by the producers that they didn’t understand (and frankly, I didn’t either). It was a wonderful experience, but I wasn’t sorry to see it end because of the way it was going. The first six years of the show were marvelous, then they started tampering with it. I get so much mail from people saying they can’t understand what happened.
• [on the cancellation of Falcon Crest (1981)]: It’s a funny feeling, because you wake up and say, ‘I’m not going to see my friends again, you know!’ Because I never done anything this long.
• [Who said in 1968 on her refusal to publicly discuss the political career of her ex-husband, Ronald Reagan]: It’s not because I’m bitter or because I don’t agree with him politically. I’ve always been a registered Republican. But it’s bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that’s all. Also, I don’t know a damn thing about politics.
• [on her ex-husband’s, Ronald Reagan’s death in 2004]: America has lost a great president, and a great, kind gentleman.
• [on winning the 1949 Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role of Johnny Belinda (1948)]: I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I’ll do it again now.
• I guess I just don’t have a talent for it, some women just aren’t the marrying kind – or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I’m one of them.
• The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself everytime you meet a human being.

Jane Wyman Important Facts

• On an episode of Falcon Crest (1981), her character was hospitalized in a coma, in real-life, before filming, she was also hospitalized.
• On Falcon Crest (1981), she was the grandmother, in real-life, she was also a grandmother of 2.
• Knew Lorenzo Lamas since his birth.
• During the last season of Falcon Crest (1981), her character was hospitalized in a coma, in real-life, she was hospitalized, the year before the last season started.
• When she married Myron Futterman, she wanted to have children, her first husband didn’t. She would later divorce him, a year later.
• When Wyman received the script for her starring role on Falcon Crest (1981), she was undecided about undertaking her character, so different from the self-sacrificing characters of her movie days.
• To protect and prevent her health, she fell asleep early, before arriving to work early on the set of Falcon Crest (1981).
• She brought along her old family and her old friends to the set of Falcon Crest (1981).
• Met Julie London, Virginia Mayo, Eve Arden and Lauren Bacall, when the five were under contract with Warner Bros. in 1949. Wyman was (by far) the longest-running member of the contract company, since she was 19.
• When one of her Falcon Crest (1981) co-stars, Lorenzo Lamas, was bungling his lines, she cautioned him not to come to work, when battling drugs.
• She and her first husband Ronald Reagan had a stillborn daughter Christine June 27, 1947.
• Lifelong friends of: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Merv Griffin, Arlene Dahl, Esther Williams, Doris Day and Agnes Moorehead.
• She was left-handed. When it was shown in Johnny Belinda (1948), her character tried to print her name in chalk.
• At least nine actors named her as their favorite actress: Anne Jeffreys, Jane Greer, Eddie Albert, Celeste Holm, John Saxon, Gina Lollobrigida, Shannon Tweed, Cindy Morgan and Bob Curtis, all nine worked with her on Falcon Crest (1981).
• Her ex-Falcon Crest (1981) co-star, Lorenzo Lamas, had said in an interview, Wyman was the grandmother he never had.
• She was most widely known to be a very private and shy lady.
• Was the 32nd actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Johnny Belinda (1948) at The 21st Academy Awards on March 24, 1949.
• Her children to attended boarding school.
• Met Aaron Spelling on Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (1955), where the two became friends, until Spelling’s death in 2006.
• The hardest scene she’d ever worked on was with Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend (1945).
• Longtime friend of Dick Powell. She and Ronald Reagan both attended his funeral in 1963.
• Worked with Fred MacMurray in both: Bon Voyage! (1962) and on My Three Sons (1960).
• Despite her divorce from Ronald Reagan, they remained close friends until his death in 2004.
• Her favorite comedienne was Betty Hutton.
• Was considered for the role of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
• Now living in Palm Springs, California, in retirement. [April 2003]
• Was a longtime friend of Eve Arden, who guest-starred alongside Wyman on Falcon Crest (1981).
• Began her show Falcon Crest (1981) at age 64.
• She studied music at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
• Before Merv Griffin became a successful talk show host and producer, he worked with her, when he began his contract career at Warner Bros. in 1954.
• When Sarah Jane was age 15, she landed a job as dancer in the chorus of Busby Berkeley’s The Kid from Spain (1932) at MGM. Other dancers and unfamiliar actresses on the lot included Lucille Ball, Betty Grable and Paulette Goddard.
• Had missed two episodes of Falcon Crest (1981), because she underwent abdominal surgery at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California, just 3 days before her 69th Birthday. An adhesion on her intestine was removed there, making her surgery so successful. [2 January 1986].
• Resided in Santa Monica, California, from 1985 to 1993.
• Jane Wyman was deceased on September 10, 2007. Her longtime friend, Merv Griffin, died on August 12, 2007, just 4 weeks before her.
• Of German descent.
• On her retirement in 1993, she moved to Rancho Mirage, California, and lived there until she died.
• Appeared on the front cover of TV Guide four times.
• Missed a lot of episodes in the last season of Falcon Crest (1981), because of the direction the show was going.
• Jack Benny gave Jane her nickname of Minnie Mouse because he believed that she resembled what the Disney character would look life if human.
• Acting mentor and friends of Lorenzo Lamas, Ana Alicia and David Selby.
• She was the last surviving member of Brother Rat (1938).
• Grandmother of Cameron and Ashley.
• Quit her hosting duties on Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (1955), because she was exhausted from putting on a miniature movie once a week.
• Her adopted son Michael Reagan had a recurring role on Falcon Crest (1981) with her.
• Was raised Roman Catholic.
• Created the character of Angela Channing of Falcon Crest (1981), who also had no intention of letting her character become a sort of J.R. Ewing of the wine business who felt she was representing all women in business. She was also a very, tough character at first, but wanted Angela to show she was also capable of love.
• After she won the Oscar, Jack Warner announced Wyman for “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Ethan Frome.’ Vivien Leigh played the role in “Streetcar” and Warner Bros. never made “Frome.”.
• Was buried as a third-degree nun [from an interview by Michael Reagan to Megyn Kelly on America Live (2010) on May 29, 2012].
• Was supposed to reprise her role as Aunt Polly in The Adventures of Pollyanna (1982), but was unavailable, because she was under contract working on Falcon Crest (1981), hence, the role was ultimately given to Shirley Jones.
• Was reported that she also died of natural causes in her sleep.
• After her guest-starring role on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993), she retired from acting at age 76.
• She and Eddie Albert were best friends from 1938 to Thursday, May 26, 2005, when Eddie Albert lost his life.
• Was also a friend of John Forsythe. Coincidentally, Wyman starred on Falcon Crest (1981), after Forsythe starred on Dynasty (1981), in the same year.
• Had relocated from Los Angeles and back to Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1930, when young Jane was only age 13.
• Best remembered by the public for her starring role as Angela Channing on Falcon Crest (1981).
• Went into semi-retirement after she starred in two failed TV pilots in the 1960s and 1970s.
• Wrote a soliloquy for the series finale of Falcon Crest (1981).
• After her retirement from acting, and long before her death, she attended other charity and honorable events, as well as the funeral of her best friends.
• Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman had a daughter Christine who was born June 26, 1947 and lived 9 hours.
• Had met her first husband, Ronald Reagan, on the set of Brother Rat (1938).
• Interred at Forest Lawn Mortuary and Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California, USA.
• Survived by two grandchildren and one adopted grandchild.
• After her father’s death and the divorce of her mother, she lived with her foster mother, when she was a little girl.
• Her ex-husband, Ronald Reagan, died of complications of Alzheimer’s disease and pneumonia. [5 June 2004].
• Former sister-in-law of Neil Reagan.
• Ranks fourth behind Mickey Rooney, Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, but in front of Eddie Albert and Ernest Borgnine, in appearances of movies, she was featured in over 80 films.
• Was a heavy smoker for years.
• She died only 9 months before her Falcon Crest (1981) co-star Mel Ferrer.
• Was born in the same city as Ruth Warrick.
• Future Falcon Crest (1981) co-stars, David Selby, Ana Alicia and Lorenzo Lamas were all being idolized by her, during childhood.
• The youngest of three children.
• Began singing and dancing at an early age.
• The first actress ever to have lots of name changes. After she took the name of Sarah Jane Fulks, she dropped her first name and used Jane, as her middle name, hence, she legally changed her name to Jane Durrell, however, she was asked to change her last name to Wyman, the same last name as her adoptive siblings – her mother had first been married to a Dr. Weymann.
• Before she was a successful actress, she had lots of jobs, especially that of a radio singer.
• She had been battling health problems for years, so producers thought they rewrote the scripts in such a way that her character didn’t do most of the walking on the Falcon Crest (1981) set.
• Her best friend Esther Williams is the stepmother of Falcon Crest (1981), co-star, Lorenzo Lamas, whose father was Fernando Lamas, who married Williams on New Years’ Eve, 1969, till his death in 1982. Ironically, Wyman, Lamas and Williams, knew each other for many years, before.
• Was a staunch Republican.
• Her parents were Gladys Hope Christian, an a doctor’s stenographer and office assistant and Manning Jefferies Mayfield, a meal-company laborer.
• Remained good friends with Susan Sullivan and Lorenzo Lamas during and after Falcon Crest (1981).
• Was hospitalized with a liver ailment and diabetes after she collapsed on the set of Falcon Crest (1981)’s ninth season. [20 February 1989].
• Was a spokesperson for the National Arthritis Foundation from the mid-1970s.
• On an episode of Falcon Crest (1981), Wyman’s movie The Blue Veil (1951), showed flashback scenes when her character reminisces about being told in the hospital that her newborn son had died.
• Was a very good friend of Aaron Spelling. She appeared on both of his shows: Charlie’s Angels (1976) and The Love Boat (1977).
• Met Lorenzo Lamas’s father, Fernando Lamas, on an episode of Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (1955), when at the time of filming, Lorenzo was a 3 month old infant. By the time Lorenzo Lamas was 21, he persistently auditioned for a co-starring role in the long-running TV series, Falcon Crest (1981), opposite Wyman, as her grandson. His persistence paid off, and he won the role.
• Was not the first choice for Angela Channing on Falcon Crest (1981). It was after her best friend Barbara Stanwyck turned down this part, that producers Earl Hamner Jr. and Michael Filerman immediately cast her in the role.
• Lived in a retirement home in Palm Springs, California, before she resided at the Rancho Mirage Country Club, where she died.
• Wyman had appeared in almost every episode of Falcon Crest (1981) from 1981 to 1989, before she missed 16 episodes in the final season. Against her doctor’s advice, she came back for the series’ final three shows, for a total of 208 of the 227 episodes of the series.
• In 1991, she received the Golda Meir Award from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.
• Her father, Manning Jefferies Mayfield, died when she was only 5.
• Her Falcon Crest (1981) co-star, Susan Sullivan, won the 1998 Jane Wyman Award at the Arthritis Foundation.
• Her Falcon Crest (1981) co-stars, Susan Sullivan and Lorenzo Lamas, both went to visit her in the hospital, while the ninth and final season was filming.
• Began her career as a contract player for Warner Bros. in 1936.
• Was the recipient of the Charles B. Harding Award in 1977, which was the highest national award given by The Arthritis Foundation.
• She had 10 hobbies: landscape painting, golfing, dancing, collecting CDs, listening to music, playing piano, singing, philanthropy, reading and politics.
• She dropped out of Lafayette High School, during her freshman year, and took on odd jobs such as a waitress and manicurist.
• She attended Lafayette High School in St. Joseph, Missouri.
• Was a close friend of USC School of Cinematic Arts professor Drew Casper.
• In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by either Lidia Simoneschi or Dhia Cristiani. She was occasionally dubbed by Rosetta Calavetta, Renata Marini, Rina Morelli or Giovanna Scotto.
• She would never talk about Ronald Reagan in an interview, but voted for him three times and attended his funeral.
• Replaced Gracie Allen for an evening of “The Burns and Allen Radio Show” when Gracie had a migraine. It turned out to be the only time Gracie missed their show in all the years Burns and Allen performed together.
• Was very good friends with: Julie London, John Forsythe, Barbara Stanwyck, Virginia Mayo, Rod Taylor, Dennis Morgan, Alexis Smith, Chao Li Chi, Bob Curtis, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Robert Conrad, Ernest Borgnine, Danny Thomas, Buddy Ebsen, Cary Grant, Robert Mitchum, Cesar Romero, Doris Day, Fernando Lamas, Arlene Dahl, Betty Grable, Carol Channing, Anne Jeffreys, Esther Williams, Ann Doran, Ray Milland, Loretta Young, Tony Curtis, Betty Hutton, Mickey Rooney, Aaron Spelling, Earl Hamner Jr., Larry Hagman, Barbara Bel Geddes, Howard Keel, Eddie Albert, Gavin MacLeod, Ann Sheridan, Eve Arden, Karl Malden, Abby Dalton, Ruta Lee, Claire Trevor, Fred MacMurray, William Demarest, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Broderick Crawford, Rock Hudson, Leslie Nielsen, Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, Lauren Bacall, Yvonne De Carlo and Agnes Moorehead.
• Before she was a successful actress, she was a chorus girl.
• Appeared in every episode of Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (1955) and was nominated for an Emmy twice.
• Daughter, Maureen Reagan, was admitted to the John Wayne Cancer Institute for malignant melanoma. [11 December 2000]
• Would never talk about Ronald Reagan in an interview.
• Has 2 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• Was always good friends with Loretta Young.
• Was a diabetic.
• Had taken a break on the ninth and final season of Falcon Crest (1981), during the third episode, due to the health problems she was suffering, but came back for the last three episodes of the series.
• Before she was a successful actress, she was once a switchboard operator.
• Holds the record for the longest screen kiss, with Regis Toomey in You’re in the Army Now (1941), at 3 minutes and 5 seconds.
• Daughter, with third husband – actor/former president Ronald Reagan – Maureen Reagan dies of malignant melanoma (skin cancer) at her Sacramento-area home. [August 2001]
• Mother of Maureen Reagan and Michael Reagan.
• Apparently broke up with Ronald Reagan over her love for Lew Ayres, but that relationship failed in the long run.
• Several sources have given her date of birth as January 4, 1914, which would mean she was one of the first (and one of the very few) actresses to make herself older. She is a serious convert to Roman Catholicism, attending Mass with good friend Loretta Young.
• Her name changed to “Jane Faulks” when she was unofficially “adopted” by the Faulks family, middle-aged neighbors of her single mother. Moved to So. California with Mrs. Faulks when she was widowed in 1928
• Adopted mother of nationally syndicated radio talk show host Michael Reagan.
• Her Best Actress Oscar for Johnny Belinda (1948) makes her the only wife of a future U.S. President (Ronald Reagan) ever to win such an award.

Jane Wyman Filmography

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