Jane Wyatt
Also Known As: Jane Waddington Wyatt
Biography: From Wikipedia Jane Wyatt (August 12, 1910 – October 20, 2006) was an American actress best known for her role as the housewife and mother on the NBC and CBS television comedy series, Father Knows Best, and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock on the science fiction television series Star Trek. Wyatt was a three-time Emmy Award-winner. Jane Waddington Wyatt was born on August 12, 1910 in Mahwah, New Jersey, but raised in Manhattan. Her father, Christopher Billopp Wyatt, Jr., was a Wall Street investment banker, and her mother, the former Euphemia Van Rensselaer Waddington, was a drama critic for the Catholic World. Both of her parents were Roman Catholic converts. She made her film debut in 1934 in One More River. In arguably her most famous role, she co-starred as Ronald Colman's character's love interest in Frank Capra's Columbia Pictures film Lost Horizon (1937). Other film appearances included Gentleman's Agreement with Gregory Peck, None but the Lonely Heart with Cary Grant, Boomerang with Dana Andrews, and Our Very Own. Her film career suffered because of her outspoken opposition to Senator Joseph McCarthy, the chief figure in the anti-Communist investigations of that era, and was temporarily derailed for having assisted in hosting a performance by the Bolshoi Ballet during the Second World War, even though it was at the request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Wyatt returned to her roots on the New York stage for a time and appeared in such plays as Lillian Hellman's The Autumn Garden, opposite Fredric March. For many people, Wyatt is best remembered as Margaret Anderson on Father Knows Best, which aired from 1954 to 1960. She played opposite Robert Young as the devoted wife and mother of the Anderson family in the Midwestern town of Springfield. This role won Wyatt three Emmy Awards for best actress in a comedy series. After Father Knows Best, Wyatt guest starred in several other series. On June 13, 1962, she was cast in the lead in "The Heather Mahoney Story" on NBC's Wagon Train. In 1963, she portrayed Kitty McMullen in "Don't Forget to Say Goodbye" on the ABC drama, Going My Way, with Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll, a series about the Catholic priesthood in New York City. In 1965, Wyatt was cast as Anne White in "The Monkey's Paw – A Retelling" on CBS's The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Wyatt was married to investment broker Edgar Bethune Ward from November 9, 1935, until his death on November 8, 2000, just one day short of the couple's 65th wedding anniversary. The couple reportedly met in the late 1920s when both were weekend houseguests of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York. Ward later converted to the Catholic faith of his wife. Wyatt suffered a mild stroke in the 1990s, but recovered well. She remained in relatively good health for the rest of her life Jane Wyatt died on October 20, 2006 of natural causes at her home in Bel-Air, California, aged 96. She was interred at San Fernando Mission Cemetery, next to her husband.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Campgaw, New Jersey, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 12, 1910
Age: 114 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 20, 2006
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Overview: When a huge alien probe enters the galaxy and begins to vaporize Earth's oceans, Kirk and his crew must travel back in time in order to bring back whales and save the planet.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-26
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Lost Horizon
Overview: British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-La provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-03
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House by the River
Overview: Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Stephen's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Marjorie.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-25
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Pitfall
Overview: An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-11
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Gentleman's Agreement
Overview: A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-11
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Task Force
Overview: After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red tape" continually frustrate their efforts, prompting Scott to even consider leaving the Navy for a more lucrative civilian job. Then the world enters a second World War and Scott finally gets the opportunity to prove to Washington the valuable role aircraft carriers could play in winning the conflict. But what will it cost him and his comrades personally?
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-30
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Criminal Lawyer
Overview: A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-23
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Canadian Pacific
Overview: A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.
Genres: Western Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-19
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The Man Who Cheated Himself
Overview: A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-26
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The Kansan
Overview: Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-10
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Boomerang!
Overview: When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-28
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None But the Lonely Heart
Overview: When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-17
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Weekend of Terror
Overview: Three nuns on a weekend trip are held hostage by escaped convicts.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-08
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Our Very Own
Overview: During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-27
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The Navy Comes Through
Overview: A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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Buckskin Frontier
Overview: A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-14
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Great Expectations
Overview: A young boy, Pip, encounters an escaped prisoner, Magwitch, and steals food for him. After the convict is captured, Pip meets the reclusive Miss Havisham and her niece, Estella, eventually becoming friends with the girl. Wealth comes to Pip via a mysterious benefactor and he goes off to London for an education. As adults, Pip and Estella become romantic, and Pip learns the identity of his patron.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-22
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Kisses for Breakfast
Overview: A newlywed develops amnesia and can't remember his wife.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-05
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Never Too Late
Overview: A 60-year-old lumber supply businessman is dismayed to learn his 50-year-old wife is pregnant. A film adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy, with Paul Ford repeating his stage role as the flabbergasted papa-to-be.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-04
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A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
Overview: One of the most moving stories in the annals of sports is presented in this true drama documenting the love affair of baseball immortal Lou Gehrig and his wife Eleanor. Their romance spans the time period from his days of glory with Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees to his unsuccessful battle with an incurable disease. As the story begins, the talented but shy Gehrig is already a popular Yankee slugger when he meets the outgoing Eleanor. Their romance begins hesitantly, but blossoms as they exchange letters while Gehrig is on the road with the team. However, Gehrig's possessive mother becomes a formidable obstacle, first to their marriage and later to their happiness. But their love for one another proves triumphant. In the midst of their happiness, when Gehrig is at the peak of his career, he learns that he is suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The courage and dignity exhibited by the Gehrigs during this crisis make this a powerful, memorable film.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-15
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Katherine
Overview: A harrowing look at the 60s and early 70s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly, but inexorably spirals down into a fight for the causes that shook a nation, leading a path to the underground life. Written by Miguel Cane
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-05
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We're Only Human
Overview: A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-27
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You'll Never See Me Again
Overview: After a couple have an argument, the wife disappears. The husband searches for her, only to discover evidence that implicates him in her murder.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Weekend for Three
Overview: Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives and turns out to be an insufferable, boorish braggart with bad manners and little self-awareness. That dismay turns to outright annoyance when Jim realizes Randy thinks he has come to stay for the weekend. How much damage to a marriage can one unwanted guest do in the space of one weekend?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-12
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The Bachelor's Daughters
Overview: A department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their father in a Long Island mansion which they have rented by pooling resources and pretending to be wealthy themselves.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-06
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The Two Little Bears
Overview: Two little boys use a magic potion to turn themselves into bears.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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Bad Boy
Overview: A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-22
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See How They Run
Overview: Three children are stalked by hired killers after they unknowingly take evidence pointing to the existence of a corrupt international cartel, which has just murdered their father.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-07
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No Minor Vices
Overview: Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that he introduces rich attractive painter Octavio Quaglini to his office and home. Quaglini is no respecter of convention, and April Ashwell is extremely attractive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-12
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One More River
Overview: A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-06
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Amelia Earhart
Overview: Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in 1937.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-25
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Interlude
Overview: A young woman touring Germany is caught between a married symphony conductor and a doctor from back home.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-30
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Amityville: The Evil Escapes
Overview: After moving into their matriarch's gothic seaside mansion, the Evans family soon becomes host to an uninvited demonic force in the form of a mysterious lamp that once resided in the Amityville house.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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My Blue Heaven
Overview: Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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Superdome
Overview: It's the biggest event of the year — the Super Bowl! But the star players for the Cougars, gathered in New Orleans for the big game, are preoccupied with some serious off-the-field issues. Dave Walecki's marriage to his wife Nancy is falling apart, while Jim McCauley is involved in a shady deal with a management firm that could destroy his career. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's an assassin killing off many of the team's personnel (as well as their chances of winning)!
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-09
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
Overview: A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-01
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The Millionaire
Overview: Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly given one million dollars each by an eccentric billionaire in this pilot to a prospective new series which the producers hoped would equal the success of the original one that ran from 1955 to 1960.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-19
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Army Surgeon
Overview: Drama about military doctors and nurses during wartime.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-04
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Treasure of Matecumbe
Overview: In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnic becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret, a map leading to buried treasure on the Florida isle of Matecumbe.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-01
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The Nativity
Overview: The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.
Genres: Drama History Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-17
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Girl from God's Country
Overview: Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few weeks by the rigors of the Alaskan winter....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-30
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Hurricane Smith
Overview: Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a new life, but one of the real criminals shows up to claim the loot which he believes Smith has.
Genres: Action Western Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-20
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The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
Overview: A documentary exploring the origins of the pioneers of women directors during the silent era.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-30
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Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Overview: A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a new home, but returns to find that they have been adopted out without her knowledge.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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The Father Knows Best Reunion
Overview: First of two reunion movies starring the original cast of the popular 1950's series "Father Knows Best." Jim and Margaret Anderson invite their children and grandchildren for a visit to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-15
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Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist
Overview: This one-hour film, narrated by Actor BURT LANCASTER, explores the lingering effects of The Hollywood Blacklist, which occurred in the late forties and early fifties as part of the Anti-Communist witch-hunts that terrorized the nation. This film is seen through the eyes of the wives and children of the now deceased Hollywood figures whose careers were destroyed when studio bosses, along with guild and union officials capitulated to the demands of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-21
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Strange Conquest
Overview: Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-01
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Tom Sawyer
Overview: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, two friends in a Mississippi River town, have one adventure after another - including attending their own funeral and being pursued by a murderer.
Genres: Family Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-23
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Neighbors
Overview: Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home on the market and the listing draws a pair of equally well-to-do African American buyers from Harlem. Fielder Cook directs this Broadway staging of playwright Arkady Leokum's exploration of lingering racial prejudice in 1970s America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-18
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Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas
Overview: The original cast of "Father Knows Best" returns for the second reunion movie. After learning that none of the children will be home for Christmas, Jim and Margaret decide to sell their house.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-18
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Frank Capra's American Dream
Overview: A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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