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'Father Knows Best' actress Wyatt dies
yahoo.com ^ | oct, 22, 2006

Posted on 10/22/2006 4:26:57 PM PDT by lunarbicep

Jane Wyatt, the lovely, serene actress who for six years on "Father Knows Best" was one of TV's favorite moms, has died, said her publicist. She was 96.

Wyatt died Friday in her sleep of natural causes at her home in Bel-Air, according to publicist Meg McDonald. Her death also was confirmed by Bernard Johnson of the funeral home Gates, Kingsley & Gates Moeller Murphy Funeral Directors.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ajanebyanyothername; fatherknowsbest; janewyatt; notjaneofreagan; notjanewyman; obituary; oldhollywood; rip; shesdeadjim; spocksmom; startrek
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To: good old days
You are thinking of Jane Wyman.

Could have been Bill Wyman....

61 posted on 10/22/2006 5:04:13 PM PDT by llevrok (Rummy! Let the Marines shoot back, damnit!)
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To: lunarbicep
One time, many years ago, my sister was visiting me for a weekend and we went out to the movies with a male friend of mine. Growing up, my dad had called me 'Princess' and my sister 'Kitten'. Turns out that the guy we were with had had the nickname 'Bud'. We all got a good laugh out of that! Loved all the 50's-60's sitcoms. Jane Wyatt was a class act!
62 posted on 10/22/2006 5:05:21 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: lunarbicep
Wow, I never knew what happened to her. 96! She was a wonderful actress on a wonderful show. I wonder if reruns of it will ever return? I am so sick of Fresh Prince, Rosanne, et al. It is time to recycle some of the old classics like Father Knows Best!
63 posted on 10/22/2006 5:05:41 PM PDT by ladyinred (RIP my precious Lamb Chop)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Thanks. That was pretty funny.


64 posted on 10/22/2006 5:08:55 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: A CA Guy

Sea Hunt. Lloyd Bridges. Loved that show. IIRC it was on fairly early on Saturday nights. I also remember watching a show called 'Adventures in Paradise' starring Gardner McKay, which I believe was also on Saturday nights. I am friggin' old.


65 posted on 10/22/2006 5:12:44 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Not if they were repeats... :-)


66 posted on 10/22/2006 5:14:08 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: YourAdHere

Looks like Amanda has joined her husband Sarek in the great beyond.


67 posted on 10/22/2006 5:14:50 PM PDT by hobblemaster
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To: Bubba_Leroy
"She's dead, Jim."

Shouldn't that be - "WE'RE dead, Jim"

68 posted on 10/22/2006 5:16:53 PM PDT by Dacus943
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To: Past Your Eyes
Father, if he's even around at all on TV shows today, doesn't seem to know anything any more. He's just there for the women and kids to ridicule because he's so stupid.

I've noticed that.

Dad pays the mortgage and pays for everyone's toys, but he's a jackass.

69 posted on 10/22/2006 5:17:21 PM PDT by Mr. Buzzcut (metal god ... visit The Ponderosa .... www.vandelay.com ... DEATH BEFORE DHIMMITUDE)
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To: Howlin
I loved that show; I loved BUD.

Bud was a hero to all awkward, clueless teenaged boys!

70 posted on 10/22/2006 5:18:23 PM PDT by Mr. Buzzcut (metal god ... visit The Ponderosa .... www.vandelay.com ... DEATH BEFORE DHIMMITUDE)
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To: lunarbicep

96. didn't know she was still alive.
I loved the way she spoke.


71 posted on 10/22/2006 5:20:37 PM PDT by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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To: A CA Guy

Sadly, they were NOT repeats when I saw them. Heck, another one just came to mind - - I believe there was a show called 'Waterfront' starring Preston Foster. He operated a tugboat, I think.... All these ocean-oriented shows obviously made quite an impression on my young mind.

I should have been a marine biologist. You know, like George Costanza.


72 posted on 10/22/2006 5:20:59 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Redleg Duke
"...and the other two..."

Lauren Chapin and Billy Grey

73 posted on 10/22/2006 5:21:24 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: Mr. Buzzcut

About the only current network show I watch is King of the Hill. At least Hank knows what is right and wrong, which is more than can be said about nearly every other character on the show. Well, maybe Connie does.


74 posted on 10/22/2006 5:24:52 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Do what you love and the ridicule will follow.)
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To: A CA Guy

Amazingly, IMDb has no record of the existence of this show.

75 posted on 10/22/2006 5:25:41 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: timsbella

Been a few years since they've shot an episode of that, hasn't it?


76 posted on 10/22/2006 5:26:39 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Do what you love and the ridicule will follow.)
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To: Lancey Howard

I was only 6 or 7 but I dug Hawaiian Eye and 77 Sunset Strip ! Perry Mason too !


77 posted on 10/22/2006 5:26:59 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: Lancey Howard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Register


78 posted on 10/22/2006 5:27:25 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy ("Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.")
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To: lunarbicep

She was a really classy lady, RIP.


79 posted on 10/22/2006 5:27:29 PM PDT by Mike Darancette ( Europe will either become Christian again or become Muslim. Not the "culture of nothing".)
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To: sushiman
As a kid I had the hots for many of the tv Moms : Barbara Billngsley ; June Lockhart ( on Lost In Space ) ; Mary Tyler Moore ( Van Dyke Show ) ; Donna Reed ...

June Lockhart was originally hot as Timmy's mom on "Lassie". I think she got divorced from Timmy's dad before she signed on to the crew of the Jupiter II back in the 60's.

80 posted on 10/22/2006 5:27:36 PM PDT by Mushinronshasan
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