Jane Wyman
Date of birth: 1917-01-05
Place of birth: Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Sarah Jane Mayfield, Miss Jane Wyman
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
1950-02-23
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the h
Pollyanna
1960-05-19
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see th
Gold Diggers of 1933
1933-05-27
When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to
Princess O'Rourke
1943-10-23
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
It's a Great Feeling
1949-08-20
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big b
Here Comes the Groom
1951-09-20
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orpha
Magnificent Obsession
1954-08-07
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s on
The Lost Weekend
1945-11-29
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... b
All That Heaven Allows
1955-12-25
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love wit
Night and Day
1946-07-02
When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he
Footlight Serenade
1942-08-01
Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy
Johnny Belinda
1948-09-14
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Tail Spin
1939-02-19
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however,
Hollywood Canteen
1944-12-15
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entert
Just for You
1952-09-27
Jordan Blake (a widower) is a successful Broadway Producer who has always been to busy for his child
The Glass Menagerie
1950-09-28
An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of h
So Big
1953-10-31
A girl of wealth comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher, and while there fall
The Yearling
1946-12-18
Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misb
Larceny, Inc.
1942-04-24
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can d
Magic Town
1947-10-07
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview
Make Your Own Bed
1944-06-10
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires
My Favorite Spy
1942-06-12
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy miss
The Doughgirls
1944-11-25
Newlyweds Arthur and Vivian arrive to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., only to find it occu
Miracle in the Rain
1956-03-31
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
Smart Blonde
1937-01-02
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the ma
Bon Voyage!
1962-05-17
The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana travels abroad for the once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris,
Flight Angels
1940-05-18
Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a docto
The Story of Will Rogers
1952-07-17
Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers
Honeymoon for Three
1941-01-18
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he
How to Commit Marriage
1969-07-07
A young couple decide to live together and they wind up having a baby. They decide they should give
The Blue Veil
1951-10-26
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
Three Guys Named Mike
1951-03-01
A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a success
Brother Rat
1938-10-29
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married an
The Lady Takes a Sailor
1949-12-16
Jennifer Smith heads a "Consumer Reports"-type company and her reputation for honesty is her greates
Lucy Gallant
1955-10-20
A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil
Holiday for Lovers
1959-07-21
Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American
Crime by Night
1944-09-09
A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
1979-01-02
A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring
The King and the Chorus Girl
1937-03-27
A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.
Ready, Willing and Able
1937-03-06
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in th
Bad Men of Missouri
1941-07-26
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of Wi
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
1939-08-12
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Private Detective
1939-12-09
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a
He Couldn't Say No
1938-03-19
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marr
Starlift
1951-12-14
To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie ge
Gambling on the High Seas
1940-06-22
A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justic
Cheyenne
1947-06-06
Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence
Let's Do It Again
1953-06-16
Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alle
A Kiss in the Dark
1949-03-25
Eric Phillips's manager buys him a building with tenants, one of whom catches his eye.
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1940-10-26
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
My Love Came Back
1940-07-13
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arran
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
1937-08-11
A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
The Failing of Raymond
1971-11-27
On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previous
Wide Open Faces
1938-04-18
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
The Crowd Roars
1938-08-06
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's
The Kid from Spain
1932-11-17
Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's
Alice in Movieland
1940-03-03
Alice wins a free trip to Hollywood and dreams about her arrival.
One More Tomorrow
1946-05-24
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christ
The Singing Marine
1937-07-03
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they p
Stage Struck
1936-09-12
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress wi
Broadway Hostess
1935-12-07
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
Here Comes Carter
1936-10-24
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
Kid Nightingale
1939-11-04
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
Public Wedding
1937-07-09
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fak
Stolen Harmony
1935-04-20
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to
Fools for Scandal
1938-04-16
An incognito Hollywood star in Paris meets a penniless nobleman who follows her to London.
Brother Rat and a Baby
1940-01-13
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a f
Freshman Love
1936-01-18
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like
An Angel from Texas
1940-04-27
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
Breakdowns of 1941
1941-11-14
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
Slim
1937-06-24
Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory trade
You're in the Army Now
1941-12-25
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
Blow-Ups of 1947
1947-12-31
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.
The Kid from Kokomo
1939-05-23
Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston
The Body Disappears
1941-11-22
Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor p
The Spy Ring
1938-01-08
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when
Over the Goal
1937-10-16
The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as we
The Sunday Round-Up
1936-10-31
The small church, pastored by Ted Burke, in a western town is struggling to stay alive as all the me
George White's 1935 Scandals
1935-03-29
A Broadway producer discovers new talent in a small Georgia town and brings them to New York for his
When Fear Eats the Soul
2007-02-01
Mixing scenes of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows and Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fra
Elmer, the Great
1933-04-29
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wad
Harold Teen
1934-04-07
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their
College Rhythm
1934-11-23
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the foo
Rumba
1935-02-08
A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.
All the King's Horses
1935-02-22
A Hollywood actor visits a mythical country where he looks like the king and confuses the queen.
King of Burlesque
1936-01-03
Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway
Anything Goes
1936-01-24
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner
My Man Godfrey
1936-09-02
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is
Cain and Mabel
1936-09-26
A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
Polo Joe
1936-11-04
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he
Little Pioneer
1937-06-25
In 1880 South Africa, young Betsy has an adventure involving Zulu Tribesmen, Dutch Settlers, The Vor
Movieland Magic
1946-03-09
Released as part of a series of WB shorts under the collective title of "Technicolor Specials" (WB p
Shoot Yourself Some Golf
1942-04-04
Jane Wyman and Ron Reagan are given golf lessons by pro-golfer Jimmy Thompson, and watch trick shots
Breakdowns of 1937
1937-12-31
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
Breakdowns of 1949
1949-12-31
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1949.
The Screen Director
1951-03-12
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
2019-07-14
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog
Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'
2004-09-07
Documentary about film.
Gold Diggers of 1937
1936-12-28
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a go
Inside the Dream Factory
1995-11-01
Faye Dunaway hosts a behind-the-scenes look at the Hollywood star-making machine.
Amanda Fallon
1973-05-04
A dedicated family doctor tries to help a pregnant teen-ager.
Breakdowns of 1942
1942-12-31
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
Breakdowns of 1939
1939-12-31
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.
Three Lives
1953-09-17
A short film made for the United Jewish Appeal, reuniting the main players behind The Sniper, writer
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987-05-18
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.