Jane Wyatt
Birth name	Jane Waddington Wyatt
Born	August 12, 1910 Campgaw, New Jersey
Died	October 20, 2006 Bel-Air, California

Jane Waddington Wyatt (August 12, 1910 – October 20, 2006) was an American actress in films and television. Image File history File links Jane_Wyatt. ... August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bel Air is the name of several places in the United States of America: Bel Air, Alabama Bel Air, Los Angeles, California Bel Air, Kentucky Bel Air, Maryland Bel Air, Tennessee Bel Air, Texas Bel Air, Virginia (two places): in Fairfax County in Stafford County Outside America: Bel Air, Mauritius... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Much like American popular music, American cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. ...

Her most famous role was as Ronald Colman's love interest in Frank Capra's Lost Horizon (1937). Other film appearances included 1947's Gentleman's Agreement (with Gregory Peck), None but the Lonely Heart (with Cary Grant), and Boomerang (with Dana Andrews). Ronald Colman (February 9, 1891 – May 19, 1958) was an English actor. ... This article is about the film director. ... Lost Horizon is a 1937 film directed by Frank Capra starring Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, John Howard, Margo, Thomas Mitchell, Edward Everett Horton, Isabel Jewell, H.B. Warner, and Sam Jaffe. ... Gentlemans Agreement is a 1947 film about a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who falsely represents himself as a Jew to research anti-semitism in the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut. ... Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. ... None but the Lonely Heart is a 1944 film which tells the story of a Cockney lad who returns home with no ambitions, but finds that his family needs him. ... Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was an English film actor. ... Boomerang! is a 1947 film based on a true story about the early career of Attorney General Homer Cummings. ... Dana Andrews Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 - December 17, 1992) was an American actor. ...

For many people, she is best remembered for her television roles, as Margaret Anderson, the mother in the 1950s television comedy Father Knows Best; and as Amanda Grayson, Mr. Spock's mother, in the 1967 episode Journey To Babel of the original Star Trek series and the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.^[1] Late in her career, she played Katherine Auschlander, the wife of hospital administrator Dr. Daniel Auschlander (Norman Lloyd), on the 1980s medical drama St. Elsewhere. Wyatt was once quoted as saying her fan mail for the first two roles exceeded that for her appearance in Lost Horizon. Television comedy had a presence from the earliest days of broadcasting. ... Robert Young and Jean Vander Pyl on NBC Radios Father Knows Best Father Knows Best, a popular American TV and radio sitcom of the 1950s and 1960s, portrayed an idealized vision of middle-class American life of the era. ... Amanda Grayson is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe. ... Spock, commonly called Mr. ... Journey to Babel is an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. ... The starship Enterprise as it appeared on Star Trek Star Trek is a culturally significant science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry in the 1960s. ... Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Paramount Pictures, 1986; see also 1986 in film) is the fourth feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ... Norman Lloyd (b. ... St. ...

One of four siblings, Wyatt was born in Campgaw (now part of Mahwah), Bergen County, New Jersey, but raised in New York City. Her father, Christopher Billop Wyatt, Jr., was a Wall Street investment banker, and her mother, the former Euphemia Van Rensselaer Waddington, was a drama critic for the Catholic World. Map highlighting Mahwahs location within Bergen County. ... Bergen County is the most populous county of the state of New Jersey, United States. ... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Manhattan Queens Brooklyn Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Elaborate marble facade of NYSE as seen from Broad and Wall Streets For other uses, see Wall Street (disambiguation). ... Catholic World was a periodical founded by Paulist Father Isaac Thomas Hecker in April 1865. ...

One of her ancestors, Rufus King, was a signer of the U.S. Constitution, a U.S. Senator and ambassador, and the Federalist candidate in the 1816 presidential election. Rufus King (March 24, 1755–April 29, 1827) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. ... Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, by Howard Chandler Christy. ... The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. ... Seal of the U.S. Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the bicameral United States Congress, the other being the House of Representatives. ... An ambassador, rarely embassador, is a diplomatic official accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization, to serve as the official representative of his or her own country. ... The Federalist Party was a United States political party in the period 1793 to 1816, with remnants lasting into the 1820s. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ...

She had three siblings: Christopher III, Elizabeth, and Monica. She was also a distant cousin of Eleanor Roosevelt and the poet Harry Crosby, through their shared descent from Philip Livingston, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 to promote her husbands (Franklin D. Roosevelts) New Deal, as well as Civil Rights. ... Harry Crosby (1898-1929) was an American heir, bon vivant, minor poet, and for some, an exemplar of the Lost Generation in American literature. ... Philip Livingston Philip Livingston (January 15, 1716 – June 12, 1778), was an American merchant and statesman from New York City. ... United States Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence was an act of the Second Continental Congress, adopted on July 4, 1776, which declared that the Thirteen Colonies were independent of Great Britain. ...

Her mother was a Catholic convert, and her father and husband ultimately converted as well, although Jane did not attend Catholic schools. Catholic students of the Cathedral Church of St. ...

Wyatt was raised from the age of three months in New York City, attended the fashionable Chapin School and later Barnard College. After two years of college, she left to join the apprentice school of the Berkshire Playhouse at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where for six months she played a varied assortment of roles. Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Manhattan Queens Brooklyn Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... The Chapin School was founded by Miss Maria Bowen Chapin, and is one of Manhattans most prestigious private schools for girls. ... Barnard College, Columbia University, founded in 1889, is an independent college of liberal arts and sciences as well as a womens college, located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, in New York, United States. ... Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. ...

One of her first jobs on Broadway was as understudy to Rose Hobart in a production of Trade Winds - a career move that cost her her listing in the New York Social Register (she later was relisted upon her marriage). Receiving favorable notices on Broadway and celebrated for her understated beauty, Wyatt made the transition from stage to screen and was placed under contract at Universal, where she co-starred in Frank Capra's Columbia film Lost Horizon. Of her experience in Lost Horizon, she noted in an article in the St. Anthony Messenger newsletter, "During the war, they cut out all the pacifist parts of the film—the High Lama talking about peace in the world. All that was cut because they were trying to inspire those G.I.'s to get out there and go 'bang! bang! bang!' which sort of ruined the film." Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Rose Hobart (May 1, 1906 - August 29, 2000) was an American film actress. ... Specific to the United States, the Social Register is a directory of names and addresses of the powerful and wealthy individuals who form the social elite, though until recently not necessarily the political or corporate elite; inclusion in the Social Register was formerly a guide to the members of polite... Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ... Lost Horizon is a 1937 film directed by Frank Capra starring Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, John Howard, Margo, Thomas Mitchell, Edward Everett Horton, Isabel Jewell, H.B. Warner, and Sam Jaffe. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes. ...

Though one of her early suitors was John D. Rockefeller III, on November 9, 1935, Wyatt married investment broker Edgar Bethune Ward. He died on November 8, 2000, the day before what would have been their 65th wedding anniversary. The couple met in the late 1920s, when both were weekend houseguests of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park. The Wards had two surviving sons. According to Wyatt's obituary in The Washington Post, a third son died in infancy in the early 1940s. John Davison Rockefeller 3rd (March 21, 1906 - July 10, 1978) was an industrialist, philanthropist, and member of the prominent United States Rockefeller family. ... November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... FDR redirects here. ... Hyde Park is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States. ... The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. ...

From 1954 to 1960, she co-starred with Robert Young in Father Knows Best, the classic TV show chronicling the life and times of the Anderson family in the Midwestern town of Springfield. She won the Emmy for best actress in a comedy for three years in a row for her role as Margaret Anderson. Robert Young (February 22, 1907 - July 21, 1998) was a popular American actor, who was the son of an Irish immigrant father and an American-born mother. ... Robert Young and Jean Vander Pyl on NBC Radios Father Knows Best Father Knows Best, a popular American TV and radio sitcom of the 1950s and 1960s, portrayed an idealized vision of middle-class American life of the era. ... The states shown in dark red are usually included in the Midwest, while all or portions of the striped states may or may not be considered part of the Midwestern United States. ... Springfield is a common name and known, in part, for being a common place-name in the United States. ... An Emmy Award. ...

Her film career suffered because of her outspoken opposition to Senator Joseph McCarthy, the chief figure in the anti-Communist investigations of that era. Her career was temporarily damaged for having assisted in hosting a performance by the Bolshoi Ballet during the Second World War, even though it was at President Roosevelt's request ([1]). As a result, she returned to her roots on the New York stage for a time and appeared in such plays as Lillian Hellman's The Autumn Garden opposite Fredric March. Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. ... Red Channels; A 1950 publication documenting Communist influence in radio and television McCarthyism is the term describing a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. ... The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow houses the world renowned Bolshoi Ballet, which has been home to some of the worlds greatest ballet dancers, including Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky, Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was a successful American playwright, linked throughout her life with many left-wing causes. ... Fredric March photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Fredric March (August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. ...

Wyatt died on October 20, 2006 of natural causes at her home in Bel-Air, California, at the age of 96. Her funeral mass was held on Friday, October 27, at the Church of St. Martin of Tours in Brentwood, California. October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dope Hiphop crew out of Sydney Australia. ... Bel Air is a neighborhood in west Los Angeles, California, USA. The faux-gated community was founded by Alphonzo E. Bell, Sr. ... Location of Brentwood in California Brentwood is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. ...

She is survived by sons Christopher Ward of Piedmont, California and Michael Ward of Los Angeles; three grandchildren, Nicholas, Andrew and Laura; and five great-grandchildren. The city of Piedmont highlighted within Alameda County Piedmont is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. ...

References

1. ^ Star trek: The original series 2.05b - Journey to Babel. Cinematic Intelligence Agency. Retrieved on 2006-10-26.

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External links

• Jane Wyatt at the Internet Movie Database
• Jane Wyatt at the TCM Movie Database
• Jane Wyatt article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
• Jane Wyatt at TV.com
• Jane Wyatt at the Notable Names Database
• Jane Wyatt: Representative of American Liberalism; article by Norman Markowitz