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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 12, 2020 0:31:23 GMT
Jane Wyatt was born August 12, 1910 in Campgaw, New Jersey. One More River - 1934  Listed as her first feature film appearance.
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Post by marshamae on Aug 12, 2020 1:13:40 GMT
One more River is the very last novel in the Forsyth saga. It concerns cousins, landed gentry, divorce and second love. It ‘s a film I have always wanted to see.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 12, 2020 7:13:22 GMT
From 1934 and her first credit, to her last in 1992, it's 58 years between them, that's amazing.    Lost Horizon 1937 as Sondra, with Ronald Colman  It didn't matter how much mother knows since Father Knows Best. In 200 episodes between 1954 and 1960, earning three Emmy Awards for her role as Margaret Anderson, in 1958, 1959 and 1960. Plus two reunion made-for-TV movies in 1977, The Father Knows Best Reunion and Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas.  Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986 as Amanda, a role she had played in Journey to Babel 1967 episode.  She guest starred in Robert Young's other successful TV-series Marcus Welby MD episode Designs 1974 |
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Post by mattgarth on Aug 12, 2020 15:44:37 GMT
GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT -- as Dorothy McGuire's sister living comfortably in a restricted Connecticut community.
TASK FORCE -- playing loyal Navy wife to airman Gary Cooper.
And how could Ronnie Colman ever think of leaving her in LOST HORIZON
(and was that really Jane swimming in the nude in the outdoor pond?)
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Post by politicidal on Aug 12, 2020 23:20:59 GMT
Terrific in Lost Horizon. Unfortunately she’s another one of those actors whose name I mix up with other people. Like Jane Wyman.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 13, 2020 1:14:26 GMT
GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT -- as Dorothy McGuire's sister living comfortably in a restricted Connecticut community.  TASK FORCE -- playing loyal Navy wife to airman Gary Cooper.  And how could Ronnie Colman ever think of leaving her in LOST HORIZON 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 13, 2020 1:19:23 GMT
I'll add BOOMERANG! (1947), her second film directed by Elia Kazan.
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Post by wmcclain on Aug 13, 2020 16:38:38 GMT
And how could Ronnie Colman ever think of leaving her in LOST HORIZON (and was that really Jane swimming in the nude in the outdoor pond?) According to a commentary track: nude yes, Jane no. They had to assure the distributors: of course she's not really naked! You just can't see her suit at that distance.
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Post by mattgarth on Aug 13, 2020 16:40:45 GMT
Sure fooled me, Bill -- while providing a thrill.
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Post by marshamae on Aug 13, 2020 22:09:20 GMT
And if I hadn't known better, I would have sworn she was British.
I think she is a classic example of TGE Mid Atlantic accent
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Post by london777 on Aug 14, 2020 0:39:44 GMT
And if I hadn't known better, I would have sworn she was British. I again thought she was of English origin, only to re-check for the second time that she was not. What does TGE mean? I tried googling it but could only find Towarowa Giełda Energii S.A.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 14, 2020 1:18:19 GMT
She also appeared in some dark noir-ish material. In Pitfall (1948), she is married to Dick Powell who cheats on her with Lizabeth Scott. When she finds out she is ferocious (“Conscience. You make it sound like a dirty word. You’re worrying about your filthy little conscience…You lied once. It was easy enough for you then. You’ve got to lie now”). I had never seen that side of her before. She’s almost scary. I think I love her.  In Bad Boy (1949) she is the caring wife of the owner of a Texas ranch which housed delinquent boys as an alternative to the reformatory. They have a tough nut to crack in the person of the volatile Danny Lester (Audie Murphy in his screen debut).  She is another wife in Fritz Lang’s House By The River (1950) only this time her husband is a sociopathic killer, Louis Hayward.  Wyatt is more of a femme fatale in “The Man Who Cheated Himself” (1950) Rough hewn cop Lee J. Cobb falls into an affair with rich-bitch Wyatt. When she kills her estranged husband, Cobb tries to cover for her. TCM commentator and film noir expert Eddie Muller seemed to find the idea of Lee J. Cobb as a romantic leading man and Jane Wyatt as a femme fatale to be amusing. He even brings up Wyatt’s role in the classic TV series “Father Know Best,” but it seems a bit unfair to “type” her from a role she wouldn’t play for another four years after this film. They are both fine, playing a little against type. Cobb makes a good love-struck older man who seems to know, way down deep, that he is being used. Wyatt’s girl-next-door beauty and quiet demeanor makes her fatale even more shocking when it emerges.   |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 14, 2020 1:20:59 GMT
mikef6 Will have to watch for that angry Jane ! Have, it seems, only seen her in gentle and understanding mode !
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