Nancy Reagan also became stepmother to Maureen Reagan ( 1941 – 2001 ) and Michael Reagan ( born 1945 ), the children of her husband's first marriage to Jane Wyman.

Cary Scott ( Jane Wyman ) is an affluent widow in suburban New England, whose social life involves her country club peers, college-age children, and a couple of men vying for her affection.

After his first wife died, Davis married Mary M. Wyman of Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1914, and, after her death, he married Lucy L. Tennant of Milton, Massachusetts

After changing her surname from Durrell to Wyman, she began her career as a contract player with Warner Bros. in 1936 at age 19.

In an amusing acceptance speech, perhaps poking fun at some of her long-winded counterparts, Wyman took her statue and said only, " I accept this, very gratefully, for keeping my mouth shut once.

For her role as Angela Channing, Wyman was nominated for a Soap Opera Digest Award five times ( for Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and for Outstanding Villainess: Prime Time Serial ), and was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1983 and 1984.

Wyman was absent for most of the ninth and final season of Falcon Crest in 1989-1990 ( her character was written out of the series by being comatose in a hospital bed following an attempted murder ).

It has been rumored that on April 8, 1933, Wyman married Ernest Eugene Wyman ( or Weymann ) ( 1906 – 1970 ), a salesman ; the marriage was mentioned in Dutch, the authorized biography of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris, who says that the marriage certificate is on file with the State of California, with the bride giving her name as Jane Fulks, daughter of Richard D. and Emma Reise Fulks.

" American genealogist William Addams Reitwiesner suggests that Jane Wyman adopted her professional surname from her German-born foster mother, Emma ( Reise ) Fulks, who he says was previously married to Dr. M. F. Weyman, a St. Louis, Missouri ophthalmologist by whom she had several children who lived with Jane Wyman in her youth.

A few days after Reagan died on June 5, 2004, Wyman broke her silence:

Following her divorce from Reagan, Wyman married Hollywood music director and composer Frederick M. Karger ( 1916 – 1979 ) on November 1, 1952, at El Montecito Presbyterian Church in Santa Barbara.

After Falcon Crest ended, Wyman made a guest appearance on the CBS series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and then completely retired from acting, spending her retirement painting and entertaining friends.

A recluse, Wyman made only a few public appearances in her last years in part due to suffering from diabetes and arthritis, although she did attend her daughter Maureen's funeral in 2001 after the latter's death from cancer ( Ronald Reagan was unable to attend due to his Alzheimer's Disease ), as well as the funeral of her friend Loretta Young.

The Lost Weekend is a 1945 Academy Award winning American drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman.

W. Wyman King Academy and The Ridge Christian School are both private, non-denominational Christian schools accepting students in grades K-12.

Wyman had starred in 83 movies, two successful TV series, and was nominated for an Academy Award four times, winning once.

Jane Wyman won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama but lost the Academy Award for Best Actress to Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire.

The Yearling was released in May of 1947 and went on to win multiple Academy Awards and nominations, including a Best Actress nomination for Jane Wyman.

A 1953 remake of So Big starred Jane Wyman in the Stanwyck role, and is the version most often seen today.

* Jane Wyman appears, uncredited, as a party guest, and Franklin Pangborn has a small role as the judge for the scavenger hunt, also uncredited.

In 1939, Wyman was cast in another starring role, in Torchy Plays With Dynamite.

The role then went to Stanwyck's friend Jane Wyman.

Farrell would portray the character Torchy Blane in seven films, from 1937 to 1939 when the role was taken over by Jane Wyman.

Wyman signed on to play the role for the third episode of Dr. Quinn in season one.

Georgann Johnson was hired to replace Wyman in the role and continued throughout the remainder of the series, making one guest appearance each season and appearing in the final Dr. Quinn television movie.

The naturally black-headed Selby is best known for playing the roles of Quentin Collins on the ABC-TV serial, Dark Shadows ( a role he played from 1968 to its ending in 1971 and again in the recent audio revival ), and as the evil and compassionate estranged son of Angela Channing ( played by Jane Wyman ), Richard Channing, on the primetime CBS soap opera Falcon Crest ( a role he played from 1982 to 1990 ).

He landed his first speaking role at the age of 9, with a small role in the film So Big starring Jane Wyman and Sterling Hayden.

Ferrer never achieved major stardom and later turned towards television, doing some directing for the series The Farmer's Daughter ( 1963 – 1966 ) starring Inger Stevens, but is best remembered in television work for his role opposite Jane Wyman as Angela Channing's attorney and briefly, her husband, Phillip Erikson, in Falcon Crest, as well as directing a few of the series episodes.

Shannon was asked by The Rolling Stones to audition to replace Bill Wyman, but did not get the role.

When Jane Wyman is offered the role, she even faints.

This role was first filled by Frank Wisbar ( 1952 – 1953 ), then by Gene Raymond ( 1953 – 1955 ), and finally by the person most associated with the series in the public mind, Jane Wyman ( 1955 – 1958 ).

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* Belinda McDonald, played by Jane Wyman in the 1948 film Johnny Belinda

Ronald Reagan was skeptical about marriage, however, following his painful 1948 divorce from Jane Wyman, and he still saw other women.

All That Heaven Allows ( 1955 ) is a romance feature film starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about a well-to-do widow and a younger landscape designer falling in love.

A studio cast recording of the film's songs was released by Decca soon after the film, with Danny Kaye, Jane Wyman, and a backup chorus singing the songs from the film, also including two Sylvia Fine originals made specifically for the album, " Uncle Pockets " and " There's a Hole at the Bottom of the Sea ", and Danny Kaye's narration of two Tubby the Tuba stories by Paul Tripp.

The film stars Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead, Stephen McNally, and Jan Sterling.

Wyman won an Oscar for this film for Best Actress.

Some saw The Old Gold Comedy Theater as being a lighter version of Lux Radio Theater, and it featured some of the best-known film and radio personalities of the day, including Fred Allen, June Allyson, Lucille Ball, Ralph Bellamy, Linda Darnell, Susan Hayward, Herbert Marshall, Dick Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, and Alan Young, among others.

In the 1940s, Robinson demonstrated his ability to succeed in comedic and film noir roles, including Raoul Walsh's Manpower ( 1941 ) with Marlene Dietrich and George Raft, Larceny, Inc. ( 1942 ) with Jane Wyman and Broderick Crawford, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity ( 1944 ) with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window ( 1945 ) with Joan Bennett and Raymond Massey, Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street ( 1945 ) with Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea, and Orson Welles ' The Stranger ( 1946 ) with Orson Welles and Loretta Young.

Jane Wyman, born Sarah Jane Mayfield, ( January 5, 1917-September 10, 2007 ) was an American singer, dancer, and character actress of film and television.

Wyman finally gained critical notice in the film noir The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ).

Stage Fright is a 1950 British crime film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding and Richard Todd.

At one point in the film, Dietrich compliments Wyman for a change in the way she dresses, when Wyman appears at the garden party.

In 1959 a film version was made, written by Laurie Wyman and Sid Colin and directed by Gordon Parry.

Bing Crosby and Greer Garson were frequently named the most popular film stars during the 1940s and later winners of the title included James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Alan Ladd, Marilyn Monroe, Rock Hudson, and Kim Novak.

* TCM Remembers 2007: Solveig Dommartin, Ulrich Mühe, producer Carlo Ponti, Charles Lane, Miyoshi Umeki, Mala Powers, writer Peter Viertel, writer Norman Mailer, Barbara McNair, producer Sidney Sheldon, Ron Carey, cinematographer László Kovács, director Delbert Mann, writer A. I. Bezzerides, Bud Ekins, Deborah Kerr, Calvin Lockhart, Betty Hutton, Marcel Marceau, film critic Joel Siegel, Yvonne De Carlo, Bobby Mauch, Lois Maxwell, Barry Nelson, make-up artist William J. Tuttle, Alice Ghostley, Jack Williams, Gordon Scott, Laraine Day, Roscoe Lee Browne, Michel Serrault, writer Bernard Gordon, Richard Jeni, Kitty Carlisle Hart, director Bob Clark, director Richard Franklin, cinematographer Freddie Francis, Kerwin Mathews, Frankie Laine, Robert Goulet, Jack Valenti, director Michelangelo Antonioni, Jane Wyman and director Ingmar Bergman.

Shivers appeared as himself in the 1955 film Lucy Gallant starring Jane Wyman and Charlton Heston.

He received favorable critical notices for the 1956 dramatic film Miracle in the Rain, co-starring Jane Wyman, in which he played a good-hearted young soldier preparing to go to war, and in the mystery 23 Paces to Baker Street, in which he played a blind playwright residing in London.

Among the noted designers who worked for George Nelson Associates, Inc. were Irving Harper, George Mulhauser ( designer of the Coconut Chair ), Robert Brownjohn ( designer of the sets for the James Bond film Goldfinger ), Don Chadwick, Bill Renwick, Suzanne Sekey, Ernest Farmer, Tobias O ' Mara, George Tscherney, ( who designed the Herman Miller advertisements ), Lance Wyman, and John Pile.

Many of leading names in stage and film appeared in the series, most in the roles they made famous on the screen, including Abbott and Costello, Jean Arthur, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Charles Boyer, James Cagney, Claudette Colbert, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, Joseph Cotten, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Dan Duryea, Frances Farmer, Errol Flynn, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Janet Gaynor, Cary Grant, Lillian Gish, Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Vivien Leigh, Ida Lupino, Fredric March, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Muni, Vincent Price, Donna Reed, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, Ann Sothern, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Shirley Temple, Gene Tierney, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, John Wayne, Jane Wyman, Orson Welles, Loretta Young and Robert Young.

In addition to the starring actors in the picture, the elaborate dance numbers are performed by the " Goldwyn Girls ", who in this film include Lucille Ball, Jane Wyman, Paulette Goddard, and Barbara Pepper.

* Cheyenne ( film ), a 1947 Western film starring Dennis Morgan and Jane Wyman