Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Jane Wyman, the Oscar-winning actress who was married in the 1940s to Ronald Reagan, then gained new fame starring in a television drama while he was in the White House, died today. She was at least 90.
Richard Adney, of Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Mortuary, told the Associated Press that Wyman died at her Palm Springs, California, home. AP gave her age as 93.
Wyman made almost 100 appearances in movies and television programs over seven decades, received four Oscar nominations as best actress and renewed her stardom in her late '60s on the television show ``Falcon Crest.''
She never shed her identity as the former wife of the late U.S. president. Her longtime agent, Robert Raison, told the New York Times in 1981 that Wyman had tired of being hounded for gossip about Reagan's personal life. Questions about Reagan were usually met with tight-lipped silence.
She broke that silence in 2004 after Reagan died, saying ``America has lost a great president and a great, kind and gentle man,'' according to AP.
By all accounts, it was Wyman who set her sights on marriage to Reagan in 1940 but wearied of his political zeal and initiated the divorce that was finalized in 1949. By then, her success in films had surpassed her husband's, with a best actress nomination for her 1946 role as Ma Baxter in ``The Yearling'' opposite actor Gregory Peck, and an Academy Award for her 1948 role as a deaf mute in ``Johnny Belinda.''
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― impudent harlot, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)
christ, she was in a lot of movies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Wyman
― impudent harlot, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)
I used to watch Falcon Crest every Friday night when I was in grade school. I was practially raised by Angela Channing! I would like to see that again...
RIP
― Sara R-C, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)
i saw Johnny Belinda maybe 20 years ago, I have no idea if she was any good.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)
she is, of course, perfect in All That Heaven Allows. When those kids buy her that TV set, man oh man.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)
maybe tomorrow i'll watch ATHA (since i'm not going to work for birthday- uh, health-related reasons)
― impudent harlot, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)
that's where the movie should have ended! Had it, it would've been my fave Sirk.
She deserved some kind of Jean Gersholt humanitarian award for enduring Ronald Reagan for so long ("Chester Chatterbox," Gore Vidal called him, boring everyone around him by reciting what he'd just read in Reader's Digest).
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)
You sadist!
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)
who, me? if i were REALLY a sadist i'd be watching imitation of life instead
― impudent harlot, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)
I meant Alfred, wanting to entomb Jane! (or is that "entube")
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)
better than watching Rock Hudson fall into a ravine after tripping over his copy of Leaves of Grass
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)
Magnificent Obsession is a truly insane movie R.I.P. (in her pre-Sirk blonde phase) http://www.cineyestrellas.com/Elenco/Actrices/W/Wyman_Jane_1.jpg
― gershy, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 03:16 (eighteen years ago)
All That Heaven Allows is perfect as is, and funnier than every screwball ever made.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 11 September 2007 03:18 (eighteen years ago)
um, no.
― J.D., Tuesday, 11 September 2007 07:54 (eighteen years ago)
"no, no! jimmy stewart for president, ronald reagan for best friend." - louis mayer on hearing that reagan was running for president
― J.D., Tuesday, 11 September 2007 07:56 (eighteen years ago)
I'm guessing Alfred couldn't deal with Rock as playboy-turned-surgeon either.
Some obits listing JW as 93.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)
oh duh, that's at the top, qualified.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)
I had more problems with Rock as drunken reporter.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)
born 100 years ago today
http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2017/1/5/whats-your-favorite-jane-wyman.html
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2017 19:51 (nine years ago)