Jayne Meadows
Actor
Biography
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Jayne Meadows (born Jane Meadows Cotter; 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 and was the elder sister of actress and memoirist Audrey Meadows.
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.
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Filmography
The Player
as Jayne Meadows 1992
City Slickers
as Mitch's Mom 1991
The Story of Us
as Dot 1999
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
as Mitch's Mother 1994
Lady in the Lake
as Mildred Haveland 1946
Song of the Thin Man
as Janet Thayar 1947
David and Bathsheba
as Michal 1951
It Happened to Jane
as Jayne Meadows 1959
Undercurrent
as Sylvia Burton 1946
Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon
as Charlotte Brink 1989
The Ratings Game
as Jayne Meadows 1984
The Luck of the Irish
as Frances Augur 1948
The Muppets Go Hollywood
as Self 1979
The Fat Man
as Jane Adams 1951
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
as (archive footage) 2010
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage) 1968