Posted on 08/12/2005 5:19:12 AM PDT by lunarbicep
Birth name
Jane Waddington Wyatt
Mini biography
Born in Campgaw, New Jersey, Jane Waddington Wyatt came from a New York family of social distinction (her father was a Wall Street investment banker and her mother was a drama critic). Jane was raised from the age of three months in New York City, attended the fashionable Chapin School and later Barnard College. After two years of college, she left to join the apprentice school of the Berkshire Playhouse at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where for six months she played a varied assortment of roles. One of her first jobs on Broadway was as understudy to Rose Hobart in a production of "Trade Winds"--a career move that cost her her slot on the New York Social Register. Wyatt made the transition from stage to screen and was placed under contract at Universal, where she made her film debut in director James Whale's One More River (1934). She went back and forth between Universal and Broadway (and co-starred in Frank Capra's Columbia film Lost Horizon (1937) on loan out from Universal). In the 1950s, she co-starred with Robert Young in "Father Knows Best" (1954), the classic TV sitcom chronicling the life and times of the Anderson family in the midwestern town of Springfield.
Wow! God bless her. 94 years old.
Happy birthday to a great lady.
Can still whistle the song and recite the cast from the opening credits of that show. (Not at the same time.)
And I can hear you doing it! (some things you never forget)
I liked her as Mrs. Sarek, too.
I never was into Star Trek, but nice to know Jane Wyatt will have even trekkies thinking of her today.
can reruns be seen?
BIG TX
Yes.
BUT!
Can you do it while eatin' crackers and covering one eye?
"...with Eleanor Donohue, Billy Gray and Lauren Chapin."
Heading out to get the crackers now. I'll let you know.
OR
BTW, did you ever hear the Ray Stevens song about eatin' crackers and coverin' one one eye?
Wasn't Jane Wyatt married to Ronald Reagan for a time?
that was Jane Wyman
Jane Wyman. Mother of Maureen Reagan.
Ah, well, I was close, LOL!
some other Aug 12th birthdays:
Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark) 80
Porter Wagoner - country singer 78
Buck Owens - country singer (Hee Haw) 76
Adm. John Poindexter - National Security Advisor
George Hamilton – actor 66
Mark Knopfler – musician (Dire Straits) 56
Pete Sampras – pro-tennis 34
Happy birthday! FKB was one of only two shows my sister and I were allowed to watch during the week. The other was Disney.
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