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Jayne Meadows

Acting

Born September 27, 1919 · Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China

Died April 26, 2015

Also known as Jane Meadows Allen · Jayne Meadows Allen · Mrs. Steve Allen

Biography

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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jayne Meadows, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography30 titles

Homicide: Life on the Street

1993as Mrs. Cochran

The Nanny

1993as Jayne Meadows

Casino

1995as Jayne Meadows

I've Got a Secret

1952as Self

Murder, She Wrote

1984as Lila Lee Amberson

The Player

1992as Jayne Meadows

Hawaii Five-O

1968as Jessica Humboldt

Sisters

as Ida Benbow

Diagnosis: Murder

1993as Connie Masters

Adam-12

1968as Ida Huntington

What's My Line?

1950as Self - Panelist

Enchantment

1948as Selina Dane

Song of the Thin Man

1947as Janet Thayar

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

as Self

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

as Ruth LaCross

Here's Lucy

1968as Laura Trenton

City Slickers

1991as Mitch's Mom

The Love Boat

1977as Gwen Finley

It Happened to Jane

1959as Jayne Meadows

The Story of Us

1999as Dot

The Luck of the Irish

1948as Frances Augur

Lady in the Lake

1946as Mildred Haveland

David and Bathsheba

1951as Michal

Undercurrent

1946as Sylvia Burton

The Ratings Game

1984as Jayne Meadows

St. Elsewhere

1982as Olga Oseransky

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

1994as Mitch's Mother

Suspense

as Helen Brady

James Dean

1976as Reva Randall

Miss All-American Beauty

1982as Gertrude Hunnicutt