Outside the Valley: The Jane Wyman Thread

[ClassyCo]

Jane Wyman has a lengthy and successful film and television career. Perhaps best-known today for starring on FALCON CREST, the long-running prime time soap opera, she had a prolific career in Hollywood. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in JOHNNY BELINDA (1948), and she went on to appear in such tear-jerking classics like MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1954) and ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955).

Any Jane Wyman fans out there?
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[ClassyCo]

"Something happened in the sixties," Jane Wyman later remembered. "It seemed that the time didn't permit women to be part of it except in a sort of secondary sort of way which I resented. I kept telling myself 'I didn't want to play WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE'."

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[ClassyCo]

I watched this interview Jane Wyman did on THE HOUR MAGAZINE back in 1986. She and host Gary Collins speak about her Hollywood career, her transition to television in the mid-'50s, and what type of fan mail she got as Angela Channing. Collins called her the "First Lady of FALCON CREST", a title to which I'd readily agree.

Wyman comes across as a genuinely nice lady in this interview, and it has me interested in diving into more of her work outside of FALCON CREST.

 

[ClassyCo]

Here's a good interview that Jane Wyman did with TCM some years before she passed. I don't like the blonde hair though.