Jayne Meadows

Personal Info

Known ForActing
Born1919-09-27
BirthplaceWuchang, Heilongjiang, China

Jayne Meadows

Acting

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.

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Filmography

Acting (37)

2010
6.1
1999
6.1
1995
Casinoas Jayne Meadows
8.0
1992
The Playeras Jayne Meadows
7.2
1991
City Slickersas Mitch's Mom
6.5
1990
3.3
1990
7.5
1989
5.6
1986
A Masterpiece of Murderas Matilda Hussey
10.0
1985
Da Capoas Mrs. Thomas
6.0
1984
The Ratings Gameas Jayne Meadows
5.7
1982
Miss All-American Beautyas Gertrude Hunnicutt
3.7
1980
The Gossip Columnistas Jayne Meadows
7.3
1979
The Muppets Go Hollywoodas Self (uncredited)
6.2
1977
4.0
1976
Norman... Is That You?as Adele Hobart
5.5
1976
James Deanas Reva Randall
4.7
1968
The Movie Orgyas Self (archive footage)
6.8
1960
College Confidentialas Betty Duquesne
6.5
1959
It Happened to Janeas Jayne Meadows
6.2
1951
5.8
1951
The Fat Manas Jane Adams
5.8
1948
Enchantmentas Selina Dane
6.7
1948
The Luck of the Irishas Frances Augur
6.1
1947
Song of the Thin Manas Janet Thayar
6.7
1947
Dark Delusionas Mrs. Selkirk
6.8
1946
Lady in the Lakeas Mildred Haveland
6.1
1946
Undercurrentas Sylvia Burton
5.9