Jane Wyman Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Jane Wyman Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Jane Wyman (WY-MEN; born Sarah Jane Mayfield; January 5, 1917 â€"

September 10, 2007) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and

philanthropist. Her career spanned more than seven decades. She was

the winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for the 1948 film

Johnny Belinda. She was also the first wife of actor Ronald Reagan

(later the 40th president of the United States). They married in 1940

and divorced in 1948. Wyman's professional career began at age 16 in

1933, when she signed with Warner Bros. Wyman followed common practice

at the time when she added three years to her age. A popular contract

player, she frequently played the leading lady, her roles including

starring alongside William Hopper in Public Wedding (1937), Ronald

Reagan and Eddie Albert in Brother Rat (1938) and its sequel Brother

Rat and a Baby (1940), Dennis Morgan in Bad Men of Missouri (1941),

Marlene Dietrich in Stage Fright (1950), and Sterling Hayden in So Big

(1953). She was also featured opposite Rock Hudson in Magnificent

Obsession (1954) and All That Heaven Allows (1955), both directed by

Douglas Sirk. She was a three-time winner of a Golden Globe Award. She

achieved continuing success in the television soap opera Falcon Crest

(1981â€"1990), in which Wyman played the lead role of villainous

matriarch Angela Channing.Sarah Jane Mayfield was born on January 5,

1917 in St. Joseph, Missouri to Gladys Hope (née Christian;

1895â€"1960) and Manning Jeffries Mayfield (1895â€"1922). Her father

was a meal company laborer and her mother was a doctor's stenographer

and office assistant. Wyman was an only child; when giving information

as an adult, she would consider herself the youngest of three

siblings. This was in reference to her foster parents' two older

children.Wyman's biological parents were married in March 1916 in

Jackson County, Missouri, and Wyman was born in January 1917. The 1920

census showed her to be the only child from the marriage, and aged

three years old on January 15, 1920, and living in Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania.For many years, Wyman's birthdate was widely reported to

be January 4, 1914, but research by biographers and genealogists

indicated that she was actually born three years later.
Jane Wyman Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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