Jane Wyman, also known as Sarah Jane Mayfield Fulks, was born on January 4, 1914, in St. Joseph, Missouri. When she was only 8, and after her parents filed for divorce, she lost her father prematurely, but she immersed herself into going back to grade school/high school for most of the 1920s & 1930s. She broke into the movies growing up with the help of her mother, but she failed. In 1932, after attending the University of Missouri, she began her career as a radio singer, which led to her first name change to Jane Durrell, when her name changed failed, in 1936, that at age 22, she signed a contract with Warner Brothers, changed her name to Jane Wyman, and acted in A and B pictures. She starred opposite her boyfriend/future husband, Ronald Reagan, in Brother Rat (1938), and its sequel, Brother Rat and a Baby (1940), which was filmed two-years later. In the early 1940s, she moved into comedies and melodramas and gained attention for her role as Ray Milland's long-suffering wife in The Lost Weekend (1945). The following year, she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Ma Baxter in The Yearling (1946), and won the coveted prize in 1949 for her role as

rape victim Belinda MacDonald in Johnny Belinda (1948). Jane Wyman's huge eyes told the audience of Belinda's story. After she starred in Johnny Belinda (1948), she appeared in a number of movies, for instance, she starred in Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright (1950), Frank Capra's, Here Comes the Groom (1951), Michael Curtiz's The Story of Will Rogers (1952), and the first movie version of The Glass Menagerie (1950). She starred opposite Bing Crosby in the musical, Just for You (1952). The 1950s viewers liked her in serials and she was Oscar-nominated for her performances in The Blue Veil (1951) and Magnificent Obsession (1954). She also starred in the immensely popular So Big (1953), Lucy Gallant (1955), All That Heaven Allows (1955) and Miracle in the Rain (1956). During her extensive film career, Wyman hosted TV's "Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre" (1955). She starred in most of the episodes which ran for 3 seasons. She came back to the big screen in Holiday for Lovers (1959), Pollyanna (1960), and her final big screen film, How to Commit Marriage (1969). Although her departure from the box office was really a big sadness in Wyman's life and a failed pilot she starred in, she continued starring in 2 TV movies, including the 1979 movie, The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1979) (TV). In early 1981, after starring in box-office movies for 49 years, she won the role of the conniving matriarch, Angela Channing Erikson Stavros Agretti, in the movie, "The Vintage Years", which was the unaired pilot for the soap opera, "Falcon Crest" (1981), later in the year. For 9 seasons, she formed that character in a way that no other actress could have done and she was drawn as the moral center of the show. In its very 1st season in 1981, it was a ratings winner and her co-stars Robert Foxworth, Lorenzo Lamas, Abby Dalton, and Susan Sullivan, really impressed her work. Near the end of its 1st season, and according to the storyline, she was told that her evil TV son, David Selby had just inherited 50% of a California newspaper company, which led to even bigger ratings for the next 5 years. She was nominated six times for a Soap Opera Digest Award; and in 1984; she won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series Drama. During the eighth season of "Falcon Crest"

039;s life and a failed pilot she starred in, she continued starring in 2 TV movies, including the 1979 movie, The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1979) (TV). In early 1981, after starring in box-office movies for 49 years, she won the role of the conniving matriarch, Angela Channing Erikson Stavros Agretti, in the movie, "The Vintage Years", which was the unaired pilot for the soap opera, "Falcon Crest" (1981), later in the year. For 9 seasons, she formed that character in a way that no other actress could have done and she was drawn as the moral center of the show. In its very 1st season in 1981, it was a ratings winner and her co-stars Robert Foxworth, Lorenzo Lamas, Abby Dalton, and Susan Sullivan, really impressed her work. Near the end of its 1st season, and according to the storyline, she was told that her evil TV son, David Selby had just inherited 50% of a California newspaper company, which led to even bigger ratings for the next 5 years. She was nominated six times for a Soap Opera Digest Award; and in 1984; she won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series Drama. During the eighth season of "Falcon Crest" (1981), Wyman was emotionally ill; she also had the friction of working on the set, which made it look very exhausted, but wanted to keep on working, anyways. After the 8th season, and after the first two episodes of the 9th season, her health was in jeopardy, which (in real-life) led to her departure on the 9th and final season of "Falcon Crest" (1981), as her character suffocates before going into a hospital and slips in a coma, she stood away from the show for almost the entire season, but came back to make the best of that bad job and decided (against her doctor's advice) to finish the last 3 episodes of the series. She then guest-starred as Jane Seymour's mother on "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" (1993) and 3 years later, she appeared in Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996). In the late 1990s, she purchased a home in Rancho Mirage, California, where she's still living in retirement. Her daughter, Maureen Reagan (who died in August 2001), was a writer who also involved herself in political issues and organized a powerful foundation. Also, she placed her 3200 square ft. Rancho Mirage condominium on the