Jayne Meadows
Known for Acting · 82 credits
- Born
- 1919-09-27
- Died
- 2015-04-26
- Place of birth
- Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China
- Also known as
- Jane Meadows Allen · Jayne Meadows Allen · Mrs. Steve Allen · Jane Cotter
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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Known For
TV Shows (45)
The Love Boat
1977
as Myrna Foster / Jayne Meadows / Mrs. Tate / Gertrude Benson / Gwen Finley
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Lila Lee Amberson
The Nanny
1993
as Jayne Meadows
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
I've Got a Secret
1952
as Self
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Panelist
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
as Connie Masters
Love, American Style
1969
as Tana
Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Jessica Humboldt
Studio One
1948
as Leslie
St. Elsewhere
1982
as Olga Oseransky
Adam-12
1968
as Ida Huntington
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
as Mrs. Cochran
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
The Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self
Here's Lucy
1968
as Laura Trenton
Hotel
1982
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Medical Center
1969
as Nurse Chambers
Matt Houston
1982
as Holly Harkens
Switch
1975
as Andrea
Suspense
1949
as Helen Brady
Crazy like a Fox
1984
as Vi
The Ann Sothern Show
1958
as Liza Vincent
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969
as Self
Your Show of Shows
1950
as Various
The Outsider
1968
as LIl
Temperatures Rising
1972
as Miss Brandon
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Rita Solomon / Anna Ella Carroll
Good Morning World
1967
as Mary Margaret
The Practice
1976
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980
as Ruth LaCross
Aloha Paradise
1981
Alice in Wonderland
1985
as Queen of Hearts
Enos
1980
High Society
1995
as Alice
The Judy Garland Show
1963
as Self
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
1950
General Electric Theater
1953
as Jean Fletcher
The Wil Shriner Show
1987
as Self
It's Not Easy
1983
as Ruth Long
The Nancy Walker Show
1976
as Georgia
Meeting of Minds
1977
as Self
Sisters
1991
as Ida Benbow
Movies (37)
Casino
1995
as Jayne Meadows
City Slickers
1991
as Mitch's Mom
The Player
1992
as Jayne Meadows
The Story of Us
1999
as Dot
The Movie Orgy
1968
as Self (archive footage)
David and Bathsheba
1951
as Michal
James Dean
1976
as Reva Randall
The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979
as Self
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
as Self
Undercurrent
1946
as Sylvia Burton
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
1994
as Mitch's Mother
The Luck of the Irish
1948
as Frances Augur
Lady in the Lake
1946
as Mildred Haveland
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
1984
as Self
The Ratings Game
1984
as Jayne Meadows
Miss All-American Beauty
1982
as Gertrude Hunnicutt
Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon
1989
as Charlotte Brink
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010
as (archive footage)
James Dean: A Portrait
1995
as Self
The Gossip Columnist
1980
as Jayne Meadows
Sex and the Married Woman
1977
as Irma Caddish
Norman... Is That You?
1976
as Adele Hobart
Song of the Thin Man
1947
as Janet Thayar
Enchantment
1948
as Selina Dane
The Jackie Bison Show
1990
as (voice)
College Confidential
1960
as Betty Duquesne
A Masterpiece of Murder
1986
as Matilda Hussey
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956
as Host
The Fat Man
1951
as Jane Adams
Starfest: The Stars Salute Public Television 1983
1983
It Happened to Jane
1959
as Jayne Meadows
Dark Delusion
1947
as Mrs. Selkirk
Now You See It, Now You Don't
1968
as Ida
Have I Got a Christmas for You
1977
as Rita
Murder by Numbers
1990
as Pamela
Da Capo
1985
as Mrs. Thomas
Computability: How to Make the Most of Your Home Computer
1984
About Jayne Meadows
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 Se… With 82 credits spanning from 1946 to 2010, Jayne Meadows has appeared in 37 films and 45 TV shows.
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