Jayne Meadows
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| Born |
Jane Meadows Cotter September 27, 1919 Wuchang, Hubei, China |
| Died | April 26, 2015 (aged 95) Encino, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, author |
| Years active | 1946–2009 |
| Political party | Republican |
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| Children | William "Bill" Allen |
| Website | www |
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 and was the elder sister of actress and memoirist Audrey Meadows.
Jayne Meadows was born Jane Meadows Cotter in 1919, in Wuchang, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China (where the family relocated after a bomb fell on their home).
Meadows was the daughter of American Episcopal missionary parents, the Rev. Francis James Meadows Cotter and his wife, the former Ida Miller Taylor, who had married in 1915.
Meadows was the elder sister of actress Audrey Meadows. She also had two brothers (both now deceased). In the early 1930s, the family settled in Sharon, Connecticut where her father had been appointed rector of Christ Church.
Meadows' most famous movies include: Undercurrent (with Katharine Hepburn), Song of the Thin Man (with William Powell and Myrna Loy), David and Bathsheba (with Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward and Raymond Massey), Lady in the Lake (with Robert Montgomery and Audrey Totter), Enchantment (with David Niven and Teresa Wright). Louella Parsons presented to Meadows the Cosmopolitan Award for Finest Dramatic Performance of 1949, for, Enchantment.
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