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Jean Byron (December 10, 1925 – February 3, 2006) was an American film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for the role of Natalie Lane, Patty Lane's mother in The Patty Duke Show. Jean Byron,(given name Imogene Burkhart) was born on December 10, 1925 in Paducah, Kentucky, and her family moved to Louisville, Kentucky when she was still quite young, and then to California when she was 19 during World War II. She appeared briefly as a singer on radio, but studied drama from 1947 to 1950. Then she did a stint with the Players Ring, a theatre group that did not pay well, but... MORE

Jean Byron (December 10, 1925 – February 3, 2006) was an American film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for the role of Natalie Lane, Patty Lane's mother in The Patty Duke Show. Jean Byron,(given name Imogene Burkhart) was born on December 10, 1925 in Paducah, Kentucky, and her family moved to Louisville, Kentucky when she was still quite young, and then to California when she was 19 during World War II. She appeared briefly as a singer on radio, but studied drama from 1947 to 1950. Then she did a stint with the Players Ring, a theatre group that did not pay well, but which did offer the performers needed exposure. It was here in a play titled Merrily We Roll Along, that she came to the attention of Harry Sauber, elderly talent adviser for Sam Katzman. She was asked to read from the script and imitate a British accent, which she did. And right then and there she got her union card. When asked her name, she replied Imogene Burkhart. Katzman didn’t care for it, so she volunteered the stage name, Jean Byron, which she had been using, and which the Columbia brass found more palatable and signed with Columbia Pictures, where she chose Jean Byron as her stage moniker. In LESS