Oscar winner Jane Wyman dies at 90
Jane Wyman, who won a best actress Oscar for her performance as a deaf-mute rape victim in 1948's Johnny Belinda and played the domineering matriarch on the hit '80s CBS series Falcon Crest, died Monday. She was 90.
Wyman, who was married to actor and future president Ronald Reagan from 1940-48, died at her Palm Springs home, said Richard Adney of Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Mortuary in Cathedral City, Calif. No other details were available.
Wyman also earned best actress Oscar noms for The Yearling (1946), The Blue Veil (1951) and Magnificent Obsession (1954). She won three Golden Globes for best actress for her work in Belinda and Blue Veil and in 1951 was given a trophy for as World Film Favorite (Female).
Wyman's icy work as Angela Channing in Falcon Crest, a soap-styled primetime drama centering on a prosperous California wine-producing family, won her a Golden Globe in 1984. She was nominated the previous year for a Golden Globe in that category.
In 1957, Wyman was nominated for an Emmy for best continuing performance by an actress in a dramatic series for her TV show, "Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre," which ran from 1955-58. She starred in and co-produced many of the episodes.
Wyman is believed to share the record for the longest screen kiss ever when she and Regis Toomey hooked up for 3 minutes, 5 seconds in the 1941 movie You're in the Army Now.
Wyman enjoyed a long and varied career, beginning as a singer and as a contract player at Warner Bros., where she met Reagan, who was to become the second of her three husbands.
The couple divorced in 1948, the year she won the Oscar for Johnny Belinda. Reagan reportedly cracked to a friend: "Maybe I should name Johnny Belinda as co-respondent."
After Reagan became governor of California and then U.S. president, Wyman kept a decorous silence about her ex-husband, who had married actress Nancy Davis.
Wyman, who was married to actor and future president Ronald Reagan from 1940-48, died at her Palm Springs home, said Richard Adney of Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Mortuary in Cathedral City, Calif. No other details were available.
Wyman also earned best actress Oscar noms for The Yearling (1946), The Blue Veil (1951) and Magnificent Obsession (1954). She won three Golden Globes for best actress for her work in Belinda and Blue Veil and in 1951 was given a trophy for as World Film Favorite (Female).
Wyman's icy work as Angela Channing in Falcon Crest, a soap-styled primetime drama centering on a prosperous California wine-producing family, won her a Golden Globe in 1984. She was nominated the previous year for a Golden Globe in that category.
In 1957, Wyman was nominated for an Emmy for best continuing performance by an actress in a dramatic series for her TV show, "Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre," which ran from 1955-58. She starred in and co-produced many of the episodes.
Wyman is believed to share the record for the longest screen kiss ever when she and Regis Toomey hooked up for 3 minutes, 5 seconds in the 1941 movie You're in the Army Now.
Wyman enjoyed a long and varied career, beginning as a singer and as a contract player at Warner Bros., where she met Reagan, who was to become the second of her three husbands.
The couple divorced in 1948, the year she won the Oscar for Johnny Belinda. Reagan reportedly cracked to a friend: "Maybe I should name Johnny Belinda as co-respondent."
After Reagan became governor of California and then U.S. president, Wyman kept a decorous silence about her ex-husband, who had married actress Nancy Davis.
- 9/11/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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