Sarah Jane Mayfield was born on January 5th, 1917 in St. Joseph, Missouri to meal company laborer Manning J. Mayfield and his wife stenographer and office assistant Gladys Hope Christian, but neither had any idea one of the classiest ladies to ever grace the silver screen had just been born to them. She went on to star in a ton of films and worked with some of the most handsome leading men.She is the only person to have won an Oscar, and married a future President of the United States. And she looks a bit like my dearly departed grandmother!
But to me she will always be the fabulous, nosey, conniving ,manipulative mistress of my all time favorite soap, Falcon Crest's Angela Channing. She will always be remembered and seems longer then the four years that she has passed.
She was so beautiful...I'd never seen pictures of her from when she was younger.
ReplyDeleteYes... LOVED her in Falcon Crest! ...but it was Lorenzo Lamas who got me all shook up!!! ...wink!
ReplyDeleteOh I love Falcon Crest's Angela Channing! As bad and evil as she was I couldn't help but love her!
ReplyDeleteJane had lived a long life = 90 years, had miracously done everything, she even was popular in movies, at the time, many audiences attended Drive-In Theaters, plus she made a comeback with only 1 TV series of the 1980s, after 2 unsuccessful pilots. What a remarkable journey she had!!
ReplyDeleteShe was so awesome on Falcon Crest...I was 16 and I would make my friends wait for me to go out...So we couldn't leave til 11:00 on friday night cause I couldn't miss Falcon Crest.....
ReplyDeleteI loved her in Johnny Belinda.
ReplyDeleteOh, I love Jane Wyman!
ReplyDeleteDamn, I too never knew just how beautiful she was!
ReplyDeleteWhat a show, and what a lady. I will always remember Jane Wyman very fondly...
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