Jayne Meadows
Actor
- Born
- September 27, 1919 · Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China
- Died
- April 26, 2015 (age 95)
Jayne Meadows (September 27, 1919 – April 26, 2015), also known as Jayne Meadows-Allen, was an American stage, film and television actress, as well as an author and lecturer. She was nominated for three Emmy Awards during her career.
Meadows' most famous movies include: Undercurrent, Song of the Thin Man, David and Bathsheba, Lady in the Lake, Enchantment.
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Among her earliest television appearances, Meadows played reporter Helen Brady in the 1953 Suspense episode F.O.B. Vienna. She was a regular panelist on the original version of I've Got a Secret and an occasional panelist on What's My Line?. She also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood. Prior to Allen's death in 2000, the couple made several television appearances together; in 1998 they played an argumentative elderly couple in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street. In 1999, the couple made their last joint TV appearance in the Diagnosis: Murder episode The Roast, which marked Steve Allen's final screen appearance. She also appeared in City Slickers.
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Known for
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- 20102Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift as (archive footage)
- 1999The Story of Us as Dot
- 1995Casino as Jayne Meadows
- 1995James Dean: A Portrait as Self
- 1994City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold as Mitch's Mother
- 1992The Player as Jayne Meadows
- 1991City Slickers as Mitch's Mom
- 1990Murder by Numbers as Pamela
- 1990The Jackie Bison Show as (voice)
- 1990Night of 100 Stars III
