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Jayne Meadows

Jayne Meadows

Actor · 1919–2015 · Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China

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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.

Acted in 65

2010s

  1. 2010

    2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

    (archive footage)

1990s

  1. 1999
  2. 1995
  3. High Society

    Alice · 7 episodes

  4. 1994

    City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

    Mitch's Mother

  5. 1993
  6. 1992
  7. 1991
  8. Sisters

    Ida Benbow · 1 episode

  9. 1990

    Murder by Numbers

    Pamela

  10. The Jackie Bison Show

    (voice)

1980s

  1. 1989

    Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon

    Charlotte Brink

  2. 1985

    Alice in Wonderland

    Queen of Hearts · 2 episodes

  3. 1984
  4. Computability: How to Make the Most of Your Home Computer

    Movie

  5. 1983

    Starfest: The Stars Salute Public Television 1983

    Movie

  6. 1982

    Miss All-American Beauty

    Gertrude Hunnicutt

  7. 1981

    Aloha Paradise

    TV

  8. 1980

    Enos

    TV

  9. The Gossip Columnist

    Jayne Meadows

  10. Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

    Ruth LaCross · 1 episode

1970s

  1. 1979
  2. 1978
  3. 1977

    Have I Got a Christmas for You

    Rita

  4. Sex and the Married Woman

    Irma Caddish

  5. 1976

    The Nancy Walker Show

    Georgia · 1 episode

  6. Norman... Is That You?

    Adele Hobart

  7. The Practice

    TV

  8. 1975
  9. 1972

1950s

  1. 1959

    It Happened to Jane

    Jayne Meadows

  2. 1958

    The Ann Sothern Show

    Liza Vincent · 1 episode

  3. 1953

    General Electric Theater

    Jean Fletcher · 1 episode

  4. 1951

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Rita Solomon, Anna Ella Carroll · 1 episode

  5. David and Bathsheba

    Michal

  6. The Fat Man

    Jane Adams

  7. 1950
Appearances15

1990s

  1. 1995

    James Dean: A Portrait

    Self

  2. 1990

    Night of 100 Stars III

    Self

1980s

  1. 1984

    Don't Ask Me, Ask God

    Self

1970s

  1. 1979

    The Muppets Go Hollywood

    Self (uncredited)

  2. 1977

    Meeting of Minds

    Self · 16 episodes