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Jayne Meadows

Jayne Meadows

Birthday: 1919-09-27 | Place of Birth: Wu-ch'ang, Heilongjiang, China

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jayne Meadows (born Jane Meadows Cotter; September 27, 1919 – April 26, 2015), also known as Jayne Meadows-Allen, was an American stage, film and television actress, as well as an author and lecturer. She was nominated for three Emmy Awards during her career and was the elder sister of actress and memoirist Audrey Meadows. Meadows' most famous movies include: Undercurrent, Song of the Thin Man, David and Bathsheba, Lady in the Lake, Enchantment. Among her earliest television appearances, Meadows played reporter Helen Brady in the 1953 Suspense episode F.O.B. Vienna. She was a regular panelist on the original version of I've Got a Secret and an occasional panelist on What's My Line?. She also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood. Prior to Allen's death in 2000, the couple made several television appearances together; in 1998 they played an argumentative elderly couple in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street. In 1999, the couple made their last joint TV appearance in the Diagnosis: Murder episode The Roast, which marked Steve Allen's final screen appearance. She also appeared in City Slickers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jayne Meadows, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1995
High Society

as    Alice Morgan

1985
Alice in Wonderland

as    Queen of Hearts

1983
It's Not Easy

as    Ruth Long

1976
Norman... Is That You?

as    Adele Hobart

1951
The Fat Man

as    Jane Adams

1951
David and Bathsheba

as    Michal

1948
The Luck of the Irish

as    Frances Augur

1948
Enchantment

as    Selina Dane

1947
Song of the Thin Man

as    Janet Thayar

1947
Lady in the Lake

as    Mildred Haveland

1947
Dark Delusion

as    Mrs. Selkirk

1946
Undercurrent

as    Sylvia Burton