Posted on 06/11/2004 7:38:32 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
The Associated Press
Posted: Friday June 11th, 2004, 5:15 PM Last Updated: Friday June 11th, 2004, 6:40 PM
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) - Jane Wyman, the first wife of Ronald Reagan, has released a statement through a friend praising the nation's 40th president. Wyman was married to Reagan from 1940 to 1949, but had limited contact with him after their divorce.
Virginia Zamboni, a friend of Wyman's, said the Oscar-winning actress gave her permission to relay a statement to The Desert Sun newspaper in which Wyman said, "America has lost a great president and a great, kind and gentle man."
Reagan and Wyman had a daughter, Maureen, who died in 2001 of cancer. They also adopted a son, Michael, and had a third child who died a day after birth.
Wyman, 90, won an Academy Award in 1949 for her role in "Johnny Belinda."
Wyman has been in contact with Michael Reagan since the former president's death.
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A nice display of class.
Good for you Janie you know what Janie could wrote a book back in 1980s about Ronnie she didn't
Good for her
I'm glad she issued a statement. She and Ronnie were married and had children together. I'm sure she's spent this last week reliving memories.
Not once has she ever said anything to hurt Reagan.
So9
You know what I kinda remember Jane on Falcon Crest even in interview she didnt' talk about Reagan during that time
I used watch Falcon Crest back in da day that good show
Very classy. She is Michael's momma for sure.
Classy lady.,/P.
"I used watch Falcon Crest back in da day that good show"
Me too. Lorenzo Lamas was a super-hottie on that show. Another one from that time I enjoyed was Hotel, with James Brolin, now unfortunately Mr. Barbara Streisand.
Thank goodness Monk is starting up again on Fridays soon. Friday TV is very important!
Posted this elsewhere, but it bears repeating:
In this day of people being richly paid to write nasty "kiss and tell" books, it is refreshing that Wyman refrained from such activities.
I would have sworn that the blind woman who got up to pay her respects at the casket today in Simi Valley was Jane Wyman.
she did not look like Jane Wyman... besides, don't you think Michael would have been with her if she were his mother?
My husband and I thought perhaps she was Jane Wyman also, until it occured to me that Michael would certainly be with a mother who seemed so frail.
So, does anyone know who that woman was? I recognized very few people at that service.
I'd never have supposed that Margaret Thatcher and Scot Baio would have had anything at all in common.
Simply eloquent,
like the lady herself.
yes, that' a good show....
we find ourselves watching a lot of "Early Edition" ...a show we never watched when it was first released......it is very, very funny.....
"we find ourselves watching a lot of "Early Edition" ...a show we never watched when it was first released"
I'll have to try that one sometime. I never watched it either, although it's a very intriquing concept. I catch the end of it when I'm switching to Diagnosis Murder, another show I never watched when it was first broadcast. I really like it, although Hubby does not. But it reminds me of my grandmother, who first turned me on to murder and mayhem as entertainment, I can well imagine watching Dick Van Dyke and co. with her. In fact, one of my fondest TV memories is being the only one (of 8) grandchildren to watch the very last, final, concluding episode of "The Fugitive" with her, she was totally devoted to that show.
I'll just admit it, I love TV. Thank heavens for Fox News and PAX and HGTV!
I love Hotel that show kick butt
How about Dynasty and Dallas
For while Soap network had Falcon Crest rerun FOR WHILE that was cool
You love MONK ME TOOOOOO I also like Dead Zone
Now I think I seen all Law and Order SVU episode I getting bored already
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