Jane Wyman, 90, Star of Film and TV, Is Dead

[Kevy Baby]

Jane Wyman, 90, Star of Film and TV, Is Dead

[/URL]Jane Wyman, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of a victimized deaf woman in the 1948 movie "Johnny Belinda," played a fierce matriarch in the 1980s television series “Falcon Crest” and was the first wife of President Ronald Reagan, died Monday at her home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. She was 90.

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[Snowflake]

Never one of my favorites, in her early years, she could toss a good wisecrack as well as Glenda Farrell.

I have to give her real credit, she kept her private life private and did not air any dirty laundry when she and Reagan divorced. A total class act.

And, she made those lovely and hysterically funny Douglas Sirk films with a hunky Rock Hudson.

[Tref]

Hmm, I just watched her first movie the other night, The Kid from Spain, though she only appears as a Goldwyn Girl. Great Eddie Cantor movie, tho.