Jane wyman

There are discrepancies when it comes to dating the date of birth of the actress. Some sources indicate that Sarah Jane Mayfield, her original name, was born on January 5, 1917 in Missouri, while others give her three more years and speak of January 4, 1914. It seems that the reason for this difference lies in the fact that Wyman gave herself three more years in 1933 so that she could declare herself of legal age and marry Ernest Eugene Wyman, with whom her marriage lasted only two years. The truth is that Jane had not exactly had an example of family stability in her eyes: her parents divorced her when she was only 4 years old, and the following year her father died. Without a suitable family environment, the future actress was left in charge of the Fulks, some neighbors, who became a kind of different home.

Wyman soon tried the Hollywood adventure. She started at the bottom, as a choir girl, and as early as 1932 she appeared, uncredited, in Torero a la fuerza , alongside Eddie Cantor . This girl with brown hair and eyes and barely six feet tall she got a contract with Warner and did small roles, until she began to stand out. In 1938 she filmed Brother Rat with Ronald Reagan , whom she married two years later. They had a daughter, Maureen, and adopted a son, Michael, but eventually divorced in 1948.

Perhaps the first title by Wyman that shines with its own light in his filmography is Days without a Trace (1945), Billy Wilder ‘s judicious approach to the problem of alcoholism. The following year she took part in Cole Porter ‘s biopic Night and Day , and in 1947 came the first of her four Oscar nominations for best leading actress, for The Awakening , a friendly family title about love for animals and nature.

After the Caprian-inspired film Magic City came the Oscar in 1948 with Belinda , where she moved with her character as a deaf-mute who became pregnant because of a heartless man who raped her.

With the magician of suspense, he made Panic on the scene (1950), which was not exactly Alfred Hitchcock ‘s best title . Although that same year he shone in the adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play , The Glass Menagerie . With a Frank Capra in low hours he did in 1951 Here comes the groom ; He had more luck with I’m Not Alone , his third Oscar nomination, where he worked with Charles Laughton . His fourth option for the statuette came for Obsession in (1954), by Douglas Sirk , a director with whom he would work again in Heaven Only Knows.(1955). She had previously made the valuable adaptation of a novel by Edna Ferber , Wheat and emerald , by Robert Wise . From that moment on, the television works of the actress would dominate, especially Falcon Crest , until 1993, when she still appeared in an episode of Doctor Quinn . When Ronald Reagan died in 2004, she declared that “America has lost a great president and a great man.”