Biography of Jane RENOUARDT :1890 JULY 7- MAY 3,1972

 

Biography of Jane RENOUARDT :

1890 JULY 7- MAY 3,1972

Victorine Catherine Renouard

Jane Renouardt began her career by playing the role of Jane, Max's wife (Max Linder) in the series of short silent films. She was the first director of the Daunou Theater which she had fitted out after its construction in 1921. The theater opened its doors on December 30, 1921. She married the actor Fernand Gravey in 1928. She is buried in the Saint-Cloud Cemetery (Hauts-de-Seine).

Filmography of Jane RENOUARDT :

Jane RENOUARDT appeared in :

note 1912 - Entente cordiale

note 1912 - Max et Jane veulent faire du théâtre

1912 - Max lance la mode

1912 - Max veut grandir

1912 - Un mariage au téléphone

1912 - Voyage de noces en Espagne

1911 - Une nuit agitée

JANE WHITE AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN 1922 ,OCTOBER 30

JANE WHITE AMERICAN ACTRESS
 BORN 1922 ,OCTOBER 30

Jane White (October 30, 1922 – July 24, 2011) was an actress of African-American descent. Born in New York City, she attended Smith College and The New School.[1]
In 1945, she made her Broadway debut in Strange Fruit. This performance was followed by roles in Razzle Dazzle, The Insect Comedy, The Climate of Eden, Take a Giant Step, Jane Eyre, and The Power and The Glory. In 1959, she opened the acclaimed musical Once Upon a Mattress, originating the role of Queen Aggravain alongside Carol Burnett and Joseph Bova.[2] She won an Obie Award in 1971 for sustained achievement.[3]

Early life[edit source]

Jane was born to Walter Francis White, a notable civil-rights leader and national secretary of the NAACP from 1931 to 1955, and Gladys Leah Powell. She grew up in the fashionable Sugar Hill neighborhood of Harlem at 409 Edgecombe Avenue. The house was nicknamed "The White House of Harlem" because of the prominent and important figures who were part of her parents' circle. She had one brother, Walter Carl Darrow White.[4][5]

Career[edit source]
Early career[edit source]

In 1945, White secured her first part playing the lead role of "Nonnie" in the Broadway production of Strange Fruit. The play was an adaptation of the controversial novel about interracial love in the South. She was originally recommended for the part by Paul Robeson, a friend of the White family.[5] The play opened to mixed reviews, but both White and the play received positive attention from Eleanor Roosevelt, then First Lady, who wrote her own review in her column My Day. Of White's performance, Roosevelt wrote: "I should like to pay tribute to the cast of this play as a whole, but particularly to Jane White whose first venture this is on the stage and who plays her part with restraint and beauty."[6]
In 1959, White played the role of the scheming Queen Aggravain in Once Upon a Mattress, in which Carol Burnett made her Broadway debut.[5]

1970s-2011 (death)[edit source]

White continued to work steadily in theatre and occasionally in television and movies from the 1970s through the 2000s. Her theatrical work has spanned summer stock, off-Broadway and on-Broadway shows. Much of her work was in classical dramas, with particular focus on Shakespeare; she won an Obie Award for her roles in the 1965-66 New York Shakespeare Festival as Volumnia in Coriolanus and the Princess of France in Love's Labour's Lost.
She won the 1988-89 Los Angeles Critics Circle Award for her role as the Mother in Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding. She has additionally played roles in such dramas as Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis and Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts; comedies such as Paul Rudnick's I Hate Hamlet; and musicals such as Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music and the 2001 production of Sondheim's Follies, to name a small selection.[5]
In addition to the productions of Once Upon a Mattress, her television work included a 1979 stint on the soap operas The Edge of Night, A World Apart, and Search for Tomorrow. She was one of the first African-American actresses to play a role under contract on soap operas when she originated the role of Lyndia Holliday, R. N. on The Edge of Night. In 1998 she played the schoolteacher Lady Jones in the movie version of Toni Morrison's Beloved.[7] From 1979-80, White starred in a self-written, one-woman cabaret show entitled Jane White, Who?, which interspersed autobiographical anecdotes and personal reminiscence with songs.[5] As recently as 2006, she continued to perform occasionally in cabaret theater.[8]

Personal life[edit source]

White attended Smith College beginning in the early 1940s. At the beginning of her freshman year, a fellow student in White's dormitory, who was white, told Smith that she would leave the school unless White were forced to leave. She said she refused to share a dormitory with a woman of color. The college told the girl she was free to leave, but White would remain enrolled and in her current rooming situation. The startled roommate elected to stay.[9] White majored in sociology at Smith, but found herself increasingly drawn to musical theatre. She studied voice and acting during her time there as well.[5] She was the first African-American president of Smith's House of Representatives, which was part of the Student Government Association.
Marriage[edit source]
In 1962, White met the New York restaurateur Alfredo Viazzi, and after a short courtship they were wed. They moved to Europe in 1965, but moved back to the U.S. in the late 1960s.[5] Viazzi died of a heart attack on December 28, 1987, aged 66.[10]

Death[edit source]

Jane White died on July 24, 2011, in New York City, aged 88.

JANE RANDOLPH ,AMERICAN FILM ACTRESS BORN OCTOBER 30,1915

JANE RANDOLPH ,AMERICAN FILM ACTRESS BORN OCTOBER 30,1915

Jane Randolph (born as Jane Roemer; October 30, 1915 – May 4, 2009), was an American film actress. She was born in Youngstown, Ohio[1] and died in Gstaad, Switzerland, from complications of a broken hip

Early years[edit source]

Randolph grew up in Kokomo, Indiana, where her hobbies included playing golf and flying airplanes. She attended DePauw University, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She also studied at an acting school operated by Max Reinhardt.[3]

Film[edit source]

Randolph moved to Hollywood in 1939 in an attempt to start a movie career. She was eventually picked up by Warner Bros. and appeared in bit movie roles in 1941. Her screen debut came in Manpower in 1941.[4]
In 1942, RKO picked up the contract of the poised actress and she received a leading lady role in Highways by Night (1942). She became known for her roles in film noir, which included Jealousy (1945) and Railroaded! (1947), and in two of Val Lewton's now well regarded B-picture horror films, Cat People (1942) and The Curse of the Cat People (1944).[5] Her last film was Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).[4]:136

Personal life[edit source]

Randolph was married to Bert D'Armand, an agent. They divorced in 1949.[1] In 1949, Randolph married Jaime del Amo (grandson of Manuel Dominguez), retired to Spain and became a socialite. In later years she returned to Los Angeles periodically, but maintained a home in Gstaad.[4]:146
The trade publication Billboard reported that Randolph and del Amo were married April 20, 1948, in Las Vegas, Nevada.[6] Another source says that she and Del Amo were married in Las Vegas in 1948, and that it was her second marriage.[7]

Selected filmography[edit source]

Highways by Night (1942)[8]
The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)[8] - Marcia Brooks
A Sporting Chance (1945)
Open Secret (1948)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS JANE WYMEN EXPIRED ON 2007 SEPTEMBER 10 WHO WAS FORMER WIFE OF RONALD REAGAN

HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS  JANE WYMEN 

EXPIRED ON 2007 SEPTEMBER 10 

WHO WAS FORMER WIFE OF RONALD REAGAN 

Jane Wyman was an Academy Award-winning American screen actress who was also Ronald Reagan's first wife.

Early Life

Actress Jane Wyman was born Sarah Jane Mayfield on January 5, 1917, in St. Joseph, Missouri. Her parents divorced in 1921, and her father died unexpectedly the following year. She took the name Sarah Jane Fulks in honor of her neighbors, who officially adopted her after her father died.

In 1928, Wyman moved to southern California where she attempted, with the help of her mother, to break into films. Unable to find work, they moved back to Missouri two years later.










After attending the University of Missouri, she began a career as a radio singer, which led her to another name change to Jane Durrell. She then changed Durrell to Wyman and made her first film in 1935

as a chorus dancer in the musical King of Burlesque. Wyman signed with Warner Bros. in 1936 and made her film acting debut the next year with a bit part in Gold Diggers (1937).













Career Highlights

Wyman toiled for a decade in mostly B-movie fare and supporting roles in bigger films. But she gained notice in 1945 for her role as the girlfriend of a chronic alcoholic in Billy Wilder's drama The Lost Weekend. Wyman went on to give a string of Academy Award-nominated performances, beginning with The Yearling opposite Gregory Peck in 1946.

She won the Oscar for Best Actress for her 1948 role as a teenage deaf-mute raped in Johnny Belinda, the first person in the sound era to win an acting Oscar without speaking a line of dialogue.












Two more Oscar nominations came for the 1951 drama Blue Veil with Charles Laughton and the 1954 Douglas Sirk-directed romance Magnificent Obsession, which she played opposite Rock Hudson. Wyman's film career stretched to 1969's How to Commit Marriage,

co-starring Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason. Other notable films included The Glass Menagerie (1950) and All That Heaven Allows (1955).













Wyman also began a television career in the 1950s, hosting the drama anthology series Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre.

And from 1981 to 1990 she played the tough, empire-building matriarch Angela Channing in the CBS melodrama Falcon Crest.












Personal Life

Jane Wyman was married several times. According to to Edmund Morris’ biography of Ronald Reagan, in 1933, a 16 year-old Jane Mayfield married Ernest Eugene Wyman. That marriage lasted two years.

In 1937, Wyman married a wealthy manufacturer of children's clothes, Myron Futterman, in New Orleans. They divorced the following year, declaring she wanted children and he did not.










The actress married another Warner studio contract actor, Ronald Reagan, in 1940. The following year she gave birth to a daughter, Maureen. They later adopted a son, Michael, who became a conservative radio host.

The couple also had a daughter who was born several months premature in June 1947, and died one day later.

Wyman and Reagan divorced in 1948. Their daughter Maureen died in August 2001 after a battle with cancer. Wyman attended the funeral but Reagan, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was not well enough to attend.










In 1952, Wyman married Fred Karger, a studio music director. They couple divorced, then later remarried and divorced a second time in 1965.

Jane Wyman died on September 10, 2007, at the age of 90, at her home in Rancho Mirage, California.

HOLLY WOOD ACTRESS JANE GREER BORN ON 1924 SEPTEMBER 9

HOLLY WOOD ACTRESS  JANE GREER 
BORN ON 1924 SEPTEMBER 9

Jane Greer (September 9, 1924 – August 24, 2001) was an American film and television actress who was perhaps best known for her role as femme fatale Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir Out of the Past.

Early years[edit]
The five-foot five Greer began life as Bettejane Greer in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Charles Durell McClellan Greer, Jr., and his wife, Bettie.[1] In 1940, at age 15, Greer suffered from a facial palsy, which paralyzed the left side of her face. She recovered, but it has been speculated that the condition contributed to her "patented look" and "a calm, 

quizzical gaze and an enigmatic expression that would later lead RKO to promote her as 'the woman with the Mona Lisa smile'."[2] She claimed that the facial exercises used to overcome the paralysis taught her how to convey human emotion.[3]












On December 4, 1945, Greer had her name legally changed to Jane Greer by a court in Los Angeles. She said of her previous name: "Mine is a sissy name.

 It's too bo-peepish, ingenueish, for the type of role I've been playing. It's like Mary Lou or Mary Ann."[4]








Music[edit]
A beauty-contest winner and professional model from her teens, Greer began her show business career as a big band singer.

 She sang in Washington, D.C., with the orchestra of Enrique Madriguera.[5] She "sang phonetically in Spanish" with the group.[6]

Film[edit]


Howard Hughes spotted Greer modeling in the June 8, 1942, issue of Life magazine and sent her to Hollywood to become an actress. Hughes lent out the actress to RKO to star in many films, (another source says Greer's then-husband, Rudy Vallee, "helped her get out of her contract with Hughes and secure another pact with RKO Studios[6]) including Dick Tracy (1945), Out of the Past (1947), They Won't Believe Me (1947), and the comedy/suspense film The Big Steal (1949),

 alongside Out of the Past co-star Robert Mitchum. Hughes refused to let her work for a time; when she finally began film acting again, she appeared in You're in the Navy Now (1951), The Prisoner of Zenda (1952), Run for the Sun (1956), and Man of a Thousand Faces (1957). In 1984, she was cast in Against All Odds, a remake of Out of the Past, as the mother of the character she had played in 1947.

In 1952, Greer obtained a release from her contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. She said: "When there is a good role at MGM, the producers want Lana or Ava. There is no chance for another actress to develop into important stardom at the studio."[7]

Television[edit]
Greer's noteworthy roles in television included guest appearances on episodes of numerous shows over the decades, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Bonanza, Quincy, M.E., Murder, 

She Wrote, and a 1975 gig with Peter Falk and Robert Vaughn in an episode of Columbo titled Troubled Waters. She even got to make fun of Out of the Past in a parody with Robert Mitchum on TV's Saturday Night Live in 1987. Greer joined the casts of Falcon Crest in 1984, and Twin Peaks in 1990, in recurring roles.

Recognition[edit]
Greer was honored with a star at 1634 Vine Street in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star was dedicated February 8, 1960.[8]

Personal life[edit]
Jane Greer married Rudy Vallee December 2, 1943, in Hollywood.[9] They separated after three months[10] and divorced July 27, 1944.[11] On August 20, 1947, Greer married Edward Lasker[12] (1912–1997), a Los Angeles lawyer and businessman, with whom she had three sons: Alex,

Steven, and Lawrence, a movie producer (WarGames, Sneakers). Greer and Lasker divorced in 1967.[6] Frank London (an actor and dialogue coach[13]) was Greer's domestic partner from 1965 until his death in 2001; he predeceased her by six months.

Death[edit]

Greer died of cancer at the age of 76 in 2001 and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Film and television appearances[edit]
Film[edit]
Pan-Americana (1945) (uncredited)
Two O'Clock Courage (1945) (as Bettejane Greer)
George White's Scandals (1945) (as Bettejane Greer)
Dick Tracy (1945)
The Falcon's Alibi (1946)
Sunset Pass (1946)
The Bamboo Blonde (1946)
Sinbad the Sailor (1947)
They Won't Believe Me (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Station West (1948)
The Big Steal (1949)
The Company She Keeps (1951)
You're in the Navy Now (1951)
Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952)
You for Me (1952)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
Desperate Search (1952)
The Clown (1953)
Run for the Sun (1956)
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Where Love Has Gone (1964)
Billie (1965)
The Outfit (1973)
The Shadow Riders (1982) (TV movie)
Against All Odds (1984)
Just Between Friends (1986)
Immediate Family (1989)
Perfect Mate (1996)
Television[edit]
Columbo ... Season 4, Episode 4, "Troubled Waters" (1975)

Quincy, M.E. ... Season 4, Episode 13, "The Depth of Beauty" (1979)

BRITISH ACTRESS JANE MERROW BORN 1941 AUGUST 26

BRITISH ACTRESS JANE MERROW 

BORN 1941 AUGUST 26

Jane Merrow (born Jane Meirowsky, 26 August 1941) is a British actress, born in Hertfordshire to an English mother and German refugee father, who was active in the 1960s and 1970s in Britain and the United States.

Film and television career[edit]

She is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.[1] In 1963, Merrow was cast in the lead role of a BBC adaptation of Lorna Doone and subsequently had roles in British TV series such as Danger Man, The Saint, The Baron, The Prisoner, Gerry Anderson's UFO, and The Avengers where, having appeared in the penultimate episode of the 1967 series, she was considered as the replacement for a departing Diana Rigg. The role went to Linda Thorson instead.

Her most prominent role was as Alais, the mistress of Henry II (played by Peter O'Toole) in The Lion in Winter (1968), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination in the category of actress in a supporting role, losing to Ruth Gordon who won for Rosemary's Baby.

 She appeared in "Adam's Woman" with Beau Bridges in 1970. She also appeared as the blind Laura in the Hammer film Hands of the Ripper (1971).








She also appeared in an episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) ("Who Killed Cock Robin?", 1969). In 1971 she played Anne Hepton in Hadleigh becoming the romantic interest of the lead character. 

Around this time, she moved to America where she guest starred in many American television dramas, mysteries and adventure programmes. They included Mission Impossible, Bearcats!, Mannix, Emergency!, Police Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Cannon, Barnaby Jones, The Eddie Capra Mysteries, Airwolf, MacGyver, Hart to Hart, Magnum, P.I., The Incredible Hulk, Once an Eagle, and The Greatest American Hero among others.

Later life[edit]

In the 1990s, Merrow returned to Britain to run a family business. In 2006 she took part in a Prisoner-related event in Portmeirion, North Wales,[2] and in 2008, she was a guest there for the annual convention for The Prisoner TV series organised by the Prisoner Appreciation Society.[3]

The summer of 2009 saw Merrow return to the stage, playing Emilia in Shakespeare's play The Comedy Of Errors with the Idaho Shakespeare Company.[4]

Filmography[edit]

The Phantom of the Opera (1962) (uncredited)
The Wild and the Willing (1962)
The System (USA: The Girl-Getters, 1964)
Catacombs (1965)
Night of the Big Heat (1967)
Assignment K (1968)
The Lion in Winter (1968)

Adam's Woman (1970)
Hands of the Ripper (1971)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)
The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973)
Diagnosis: Murder (1975)
The Appointment (1981)