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Jayne Meadows
Known for: ActingJayne 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.
Filmography 14
The Story of Us
as Dot
Undercurrent
as Sylvia Burton
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
as Mitch's Mother
Song of the Thin Man
as Janet Thayar
David and Bathsheba
as Michal
It Happened to Jane
as Jayne Meadows
Lady in the Lake
as Mildred Haveland
The Luck of the Irish
as Frances Augur
James Dean
Enchantment
Norman... Is That You?
as Adele Hobart
The Fat Man
Miss All-American Beauty
as Gertrude Hunnicutt
Dark Delusion
as Mrs. Selkirk