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  Jane Wyatt - Telegraph
Jane Wyatt, who died on October 20 aged 96, was a noted actress on Broadway but became best known for her work in films and on television.
In 1935 Jane Wyatt was placed under contract to Universal, for which she played a reporter in We're Only Human (1935); she was loaned out to RKO for The Luckiest Girl in the World (also 1935), with Louis Hayward.
Jane Wyatt's best-known film was probably Frank Capra's Lost Horizon (1937), opposite Ronald Colman, in which a party of Westerners is stranded after their plane crashes in "Shangri-La", the domain of a High Lama.
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Sarah Jane MAISH was born in 1843 in Imber, Wiltshire.
Jane Shore was a mistress of Edward IV.
Eliza Jane CARTER was born in 1863 in Imber, Wiltshire.
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 Political Affairs Magazine - Jane Wyatt: R.I.P.
Jane Wyatt worked on Broadway and in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s, her beauty and sensitivity earning her a co-starring role in Frank Capra's classic Lost Horizons (1937) and roles in None But the Lonely Heart (1944) with Cary Grant.
Jane Wyatt went on to play Spock's mother in Star Trek in the 1960s and in the 1986 Star Trek movie, and she had a regular role on the 1980s hospital series, St Elsewhere.
Jane Wyatt's role in opposing the fllist and suffering career damage for it deserves to be remembered along with an appreciation of her long and serious career as an actress in movies and television.
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 ABC News: Actress Jane Wyatt dies at 96   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wyatt died Friday in her sleep of natural causes at age 96, according to publicist Meg McDonald.
Wyatt played Margaret Anderson alongside the late Robert Young in the popular 1950s U.S. series "Father Knows Best," which chronicled the life and times of the Anderson family in the Midwestern town of Springfield and earned Wyatt multiple Emmys.
Wyatt, who arrived in Hollywood in the mid-1930s, appeared in 30 films over a 30 year-period, during which she continued to act on stage.
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 Catholic actress Jane Wyatt dies at 96 | The-Tidings.com
Jane Wyatt, the Catholic actress who won three Emmy awards for her portrayal of Margaret Anderson, the mother on the genial 1950s television comedy "Father Knows Best," died Oct. 20 at her home in Bel Air.
In 2004, Wyatt was honored with a lifetime achievement award for her theatre, film and television career as well as her charitable work by Catholics in Media Associates (CIMA).
Wyatt was dropped from the New York Social Register when she left college to become a Broadway actress.
www.the-tidings.com /2006/1103/wyatt.htm   (725 words)

  
 Boldly Go: Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyatt, known to SF fans as Spock's Mother, Amanda, passed on this past weekend.
Wyatt was in Episode "Journey to Babel" and reprised her role in the 1986 Star Trek movie, The Journey Home.
Wyatt was widely known as the wife to Robert Young in Father Knows Best.
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 'Father Knows Best' star Jane Wyatt dies - Boston.com
Actress Jane Wyatt died Friday in her sleep of natural causes at her Bel-Air home, according to publicist Meg McDonald.
Wyatt, the lovely, serene actress who for six years on "Father Knows Best" was one of TV's favorite moms, died Friday, Oct. 20, 2006 in her Bel Air, Calif., home.
Wyatt was born in Campgaw, N.J., into a wealthy family in 1910, according to McDonald, her publicist.
www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2006/10/23/father_knows_best_actress_wyatt_dies   (855 words)

  
 Political Affairs Magazine - Jane Wyatt: R.I.P.
Wyatt had been active in The Committee for the First Amendment which in 1947 had sent a delegation to Washington in solidarity with the Hollywood Ten and had held rallies, produced radio spots, and sought to publicize support for them against the red baiters and fllisters.
Jane Wyatt went on to play Spock's mother in Star Trek in the 1960s and in the 1986 Star Trek movie, and she had a regular role on the 1980s hospital series, St Elsewhere.
Jane Wyatt's role in opposing the fllist and suffering career damage for it deserves to be remembered along with an appreciation of her long and serious career as an actress in movies and television.
politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/4302/1/217   (903 words)

  
 ABC News: 'Father Knows Best' Star Jane Wyatt Dies
Wyatt, the lovely, serene actress who for six years on "Father Knows Best" was one of TV's favorite moms, died Friday, Oct. 20, 2006 in her Bel Air, Calif., home.
Wyatt had a successful film career in the 1930s and '40s, notably as Ronald Colman's lover in 1937's "Lost Horizon." She worked throughout the 1970s and 80s, appearing on TV shows including "St. Elsewhere."
Wyatt remarked in 1965 that she was tired, too.
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 keyetv.com - Jane Wyatt Of 'Father Knows Best' Dies At 96   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wyatt died Friday in her sleep of natural causes at her Bel-Air home, according to publicist Meg McDonald.
The role wasn't the only time in her 60 years in films and TV that Wyatt was cast as the warm, compassionate wife and mother.
Wyatt was born in Campgaw, N.J., into a wealthy family in 1910, acccoring to McDonald, her publicist.
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 WYATT
At her execution Anne Boleyn went to the block dressed in fl damask and was said never to have looked more beautiful.
One of her attendants was Anne Wyatt, to who she was seen to whisper something as she knelt.
He wrote the "Life of Anne Boleyn" which was published and a history of the Wyatt family which is in the British Museum in manuscript form.
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 Jane Wyatt, 96; Film Actress Also in 'Father Knows Best' - washingtonpost.com
Jane Wyatt, 96, a onetime socialite who specialized in playing well-bred ingenues on stage and film and is best known as the understanding mother in the television sitcom "Father Knows Best," died Oct. 20 at her home in Bel Air, Calif. The family said she died in her sleep but did not give further details.
Jane Waddington Wyatt was born Aug. 12, 1910, in Campgaw, N.J. Her ancestry was traced to early American statesmen and educators.
Wyatt said in later years that she found aspects of the show dated, she took some comfort in its ability to appeal to audiences around the world.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/22/AR2006102200683.html   (1404 words)

  
 In Remembrance- Jane Wyatt   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jane Wyatt, the screen actress who won three Emmy Awards for her portrayal as the loving and patient housewife on the 1950s comedy series Father Knows Best, has passed away on October 20, 2006 in Bel-Air, CA.
Wyatt was still able to get work in television, appearing in Your Show Of Shows, Ford Television Theatre and Philip Morris Playhouse before taking her starring role in Father Knows Best in 1955.
Wyatt’s last film role was in 1986’s Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home as half-alien science officer Spock’s human mother, a part she originated on the original Star Trek television series in 1967.
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 Jane Wyatt News
Jessica Simpson reportedly told Jane magazine that she knew her marriage to Nick Lachey was over when he refused to join her on a charity trip to...
To recall Jane Wyatt as having personified "the mother of all mothers" might be accurate, but the phrase invokes unfortunate geopolitical associations.
Jane Wyatt, well known among Star Trek fans as Spock's human mother Amanda Grayson, died at age 96 of natural causes in her sleep on Friday.
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 Jane's World
Jane Wyatt is one of those people to whom things just happen.
She and Jane dated briefly, but broke it off when they reached the conclusion that the other was more and more the kind of person who annoyed them.
Dorothy seems to be ever critical of Jane's life choices and once even went so far as to hire her a life coach.
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 deseretnews.com | Jane Wyatt knew best
After the television series "Father Knows Best" left the air, Robert Young went on to become "Marcus Welby, M.D." His co-star Jane Wyatt, however, would forever be set in concrete as Young's dutiful, caring wife on a family sitcom that people came to identify as a frothy fantasy of the perfect family.
Wyatt died last weekend at the age of 96.
Wyatt and her Anderson bunch were always too perfect.
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 Jane Wyatt - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
Jane Wyatt (12 August 1910 – 20 October 2006; age 96) was the Emmy award-winning American actress who played Amanda Grayson, wife to Vulcan Ambassador Sarek and mother of Spock, in the Star Trek episode "Journey to Babel" and again in the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
Born in Campgaw, New Jersey, Jane Waddington Wyatt was the daughter of Christopher Billop Wyatt, Jr.
Wyatt's career in film began to stagnate during the 1950s, having become one of the many Hollywood celebrities to be fllisted for supposed Communist activities; in Wyatt's case, she was fllisted for protesting at the hearings of the Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, DC in 1951.
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 Playbill News: Jane Wyatt, Star of Stage, Film and Television, Dead at 95
Jane Wyatt, the stage and film actress who found her greatest success on the small screen's warm-hearted sitcom "Father Knows Best," died on Oct. 20 at her home in Bel Air, California.
Wyatt was known for playing pretty, devoted and rather dull wives to virtuous men, who were often portrayed by Hollywood's leading men, including Gary Cooper (in "Task Force"), Dana Andrews ("Boomerang") and Cary Grant ("None But the Lonely Heart").
Jane Waddington Wyatt was born on Aug. 12, 1911, in Campgaw, New Jersey.
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 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Stage, screen star Jane Wyatt, 96
Wyatt was proud of the series, which has been criticized for not being a realistic portrayal of American family life.
Wyatt was born Aug. 12, 1910, in Campgaw, N.J. Her father, Christopher Wyatt, was a New York investment banker, and her mother, Euphemia Van Rensselaer Wyatt, was a playwright, drama critic and editor.
Wyatt majored in history and took drama courses at Barnard College, but she left after two years to become an apprentice at the Berkshire Playhouse in Stockbridge, Mass.
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 Hollywood Remembers Jane Wyatt
Wyatt may be best remembered for her role as Margaret Anderson on TV’s “Father Knows Best” for which she won three consecutive Emmys (1958-1960).
Jane Wyatt appeared as Amanda, Spock’s (Leonard Nimoy) mother in the film.
Jane Wyatt starred in this drama about two doctors competing for the affection of their colleague.
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 Jane Wyatt, Mother on ‘Father Knows Best,’ Dies at 96 - New York Times
Wyatt found it hard to avoid being typecast and wound up playing quite a few of what she described as “good wives of good men,” though she confessed she would have been happier “playing the murderer or the heavy.” She did get to play a few offbeat roles on stage and screen.
Wyatt said at one point that her favorite film role had been in “Task Force,” opposite Gary Cooper, but she is probably best remembered for her work in “Lost Horizon,” based on the novel by James Hilton and directed by Frank Capra.
Wyatt), an attractive young woman who has grown up in Shangri-La. The High Lama is looking for a successor, Sondra is looking for love, and the Colman character must choose whether to stay or return to the war-torn world beyond the mountains.
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Jane Wyatt as Amanda, the human wife of Sarek and mother to Spock
Jane Wyatt, television icon and mother to Spock, died peacefully at her Bel-Air home in California last Friday.
Wyatt was born in 1910 in Campgaw, N.J. to a drama critic mother and Wall Street investor father.
www.startrek.com /startrek/view/news/article/31355.html   (389 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Actress Jane Wyatt of 'Father Knows Best' dies at 96
LOS ANGELES – Jane Wyatt, the lovely, serene actress who for six years on “Father Knows Best” was one of TV's favorite moms, has died, her son Christopher Ward said Sunday.
Wyatt was born in Campgaw, N.J., into a wealthy family in 1910, according to McDonald, her publicist.
During college, Wyatt attended a party at Hyde Park, N.Y., given by the sons of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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 Jane Wyatt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jane Waddington Wyatt (August 12, 1910 – October 20, 2006) was an American actress in films and television.
One of four siblings, Wyatt was born in Campgaw (now part of Mahwah), Bergen County, New Jersey, but raised in New York City.
Her father, Christopher Billop Wyatt, Jr., was a Wall Street investment banker, and her mother, the former Euphemia Van Rensselaer Waddington, was a drama critic for the Catholic World.
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 Jane Wyman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jane Wyman (born January 5, 1917) is an Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress best known for playing disabled characters such as Belinda MacDonald in Johnny Belinda and Helen Phillips in Magnificent Obsession (opposite Rock Hudson).
Wyman was born as Sarah Jane Mayfield in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the only child of Manning Jeffries Mayfield (1895-1922) and his wife, the former Gladdys Hope Christian (1895-1960), an aspiring actress whom he married on 17 May 1916.
A devout Catholic convert, Jane Wyman has lived in seclusion for a number of years because of declining health (she suffers from arthritis and diabetes), and apparently tends to be seen in public only at funerals, such as for her daughter, Maureen Reagan, and her best friend, Loretta Young.
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 kdka.com - Jane Wyatt Of 'Father Knows Best' Dies At 96
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Jane Wyatt, the lovely, serene actress who for six years on "Father Knows Best" was one of TV's favorite moms, has died, her publicist said Sunday.
Wyatt died Friday in her sleep of natural causes at her Bel-Air home, according to publicist Meg McDonald.
Wyatt was born in Campgaw, N.J., into a wealthy family in 1910, acccoring to McDonald, her publicist.
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