Biography: Jane Wyman |
Born Sarah Jane Fulks, Jane Wyman tried to break into films as a child but was unsuccessful despite encouragement from her mother. A decade later, she began her show business career as a radio singer, using the name Jane Durrell. In 1936, she began... more
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How to Commit a Marriage (1969)
Cast: Bob Hope Jackie Gleason
Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy
Length: 96min
Frank Benson (Bob Hope) and his wife, Elaine (Jane Wyman), decide to end their marriage after 20 years. Their daughter, Nancy (Joanna Cameron), announces she wishes to marry her college sweetheart, David Poe (Tim Matheson). David's father, Oliver...
Cast: Fred MacMurray Jane Wyman
Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy
Length: 131min
An Indiana family embarks on their dream vacation to France. The Willard family, led by Harry (Fred MacMurray) and Katie (Jane Wyman), bring their three children along to experience a slice of continental culture abroad. Amy (Deborah Walley) is the...
Cast: Walt Disney
Tags: Childhood Drama Family Drama Family-Oriented Adventure
Length: 134min
Eleanor H. Porter's story of Pollyanna, "The Glad Girl," was first filmed in 1920 by Mary Pickford. While entertaining, the Pickford version tended to reduce the supporting characters to stereotypes. Disney's 1960 remake of Pollyanna wisely offers...
Tags: Comedy
Length: 103min
Director Henry Levin followed up this light romantic comedy with Where the Boys Are and started a beach trend going. This conventional story stars one of his favorite actors Clifton Webb as Robert Dean, the father of two lively teen-age daughters. He...
Length: 101min
This 1953 tear-jerker is the third film version of the Edna Ferber novel So Big. Stepping into the role previously essayed by Colleen Moore and Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman plays Selina, a girl of wealth who comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago...
Cast: Rock Hudson
Tags: Melodrama Medical Drama Drama Romance
Length: 108min
This second film version of Lloyd C. Douglas' spiritual novel -Magnificent Obsession is in its own way as successful as the first (filmed in 1935) in glossing over the plot holes and logic gaps in the original novel. Rock Hudson plays Bob Merrick, a...
Tags: War Romance Drama
Length: 120min
The fate that brings lovers together can easily tear them apart as can be seen in this sentimental ragedy that centers on an ordinary-looking secretary's (Jane Wyman) lonely life. Other than working and spending some free time with a spinster (Eileen...
Cast: Agnes Moorehead
Tags: Romance Drama Romantic Drama Melodrama
Length: 89min
One of director Douglas Sirk's best and most successful romantic soapers of the 1950s, All That Heaven Allows is predicated on a May-December romance. The difference here is that the woman, attractive widow Cary Scott (Jane Wyman), is considerably...
Cast: Ray Milland
Length: 115min
This tuneful remake of 1937's The Awful Truth centers on the rocky marriage of a philandering composer and the wife who has her fill and decides to get even by having an "affair" of her own. Actually, hers is quite innocent. Unfortunately, her husband...
Cast: Charlton Heston William Demarest Thelma Ritter Claire Trevor
Length: 104min
An unusually matronly Jane Wyman plays the title character in Lucy Gallant. Adapted from a novel by Margaret Cousins, the story concerns the efforts by Lucy Gallant to make the wide-open spaces of Texas a mecca for High Fashion. Jilted at the altar,...
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