Jane Wyatt

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Actress Jane Wyatt dies on October 20, 2006 at the age of 96. Reports say she passed away in her Bel-Air home in her sleep due to natural causes. Upon news of her passing, hundreds of websites and message boards mourn and exchange stories as to how this woman has affected their lives. An online guest book was immediately created in order for Jane Wyatt fans to congregate and write down their memories of her through television and film. The fans, although never meeting her in person, connect with her through a different level. The fans relate to her through the public eye, not simple as an actress, but as a friend, educator, and mentor. On the tragic day of October 20, 2006 Jane Wyatt's spirit moves on, but her legacy and achievements remain in our hearts, text books, television, and film till the end of time.

One bright sunny afternoon on August 12, 1910 Jane Wyatt came into this world. Sister to three siblings and daughter to an investment banker father and drama critic mother. Although she was born in New Jersey, she was raised at a young age in New York City. Wyatt received her basic formal education at Chapin School and then attended Barnard College in New York City. How ever being privileged with having a mother

involved in theater Wyatt was drawn to the irresistible call of the stage causing her to end her short term at Barnard College in order to hone her acting skills at Berkshire

Playhouse in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. For six months she played a varied assortment of roles followed by a position as an understudy to Rose Hobart in a Broadway production of Trade Winds. This position opened "doors" for her and she was beginning to be noticed by various production companies, most notably Universal. Universal took note of Wyatt's talents and offered up her first film role in the movie One More River.

Wyatt embarked on a flourishing screen career following her impressive debut, which led to her performance in Lost Horizon which is to be considered her most outstanding achievement in film. However her success did not come without its hardships.

During the late 1940-50s her film career suffered because of her outspoken conflict with Joseph McCarthy, the Red Scare, and the Hollywood blacklist.

During this time a variety of Americans were accused of being Communists or communist sympathizers and were victims of aggressive investigations by government committees and agencies.

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