Jane Wyatt
Actress
About This Interview
Jane Wyatt (1910-2006) was interviewed for two hours in Los Angeles, CA. Ms. Wyatt described her lengthy career in film, stage, and television. She talked about her feature film debut in 1934 in James Whale’s One More River and her subsequent film roles in such classics as Frank Capra’s Lost Horizon and Elia Kazan’s Gentleman’s Agreement. She discussed the McCarthy era in which she found herself on an industry blacklist, unable to work in film. She described her television debut on Robert Montgomery Presents in the title role of “Kitty Foyle” (1950) and her varied roles in “live” television. She described in detail her most memorable and enduring work for television on Father Knows Best (1954-63), in which she played the role of wife and mother Margaret Anderson, a part that won her three consecutive Emmy Awards. She discussed her later television work on such series as Bell Telephone Hour and Hollywood Television Theatre. She talked about her appearance as Mr. Spock’s human mother on the series Star Trek (a role she repeated in the feature film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home). Ms. Wyatt also described her memorable recurring role as Katherine Auschlander on the medical drama St. Elsewhere. The interview was conducted by Gary Rutkowski on November 16, 1999.
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Harsh smarsh. Wonderful career, loved and respected by friends and collegues, Belief in God, died at nearl 100 years old, surrounded by family in Bel Air,, who could ask for more from a life. you go girl.
@Nationsnotregimes Who is naive! McCarthy was the scum of the earth Same as Hannity, Limbaugh, Cheney!
You are the idiot! She is and was a lovely person. True to herself, not a grandstander like the others.
Joseph P. McCarthy
Was a country boy who never understood he was up against a 100% cohisive acient tribe of gangsters.
Jane is extremely naive.
About the World it was her elite bretheren in the East that helpd the enemy aliens destroy US IMO.
She after all is the weaker sex.
She never had to suffer the results what she and her ilk brought forth that is all around US today.
@mattleemattlee123 what a great observation you make about her smile, and it is so true about the years melting away. Her spirit was bright.
What a classy lady. I've been in love with her since seeing her in Lost Horizon. Amazingly, when she smiles the years drop away and that beautiful, youthful face still lights up as it did 7 decades earlier.
They absolutely do not make them like her anymore.
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