
Jayne Meadows
Known for Acting · 82 credits
- Born
- 1919-09-27
- Died
- 2015-04-26
- Place of birth
- Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China
- Also known as
- Jane Meadows Allen · Jayne Meadows Allen · Mrs. Steve Allen · Jane Cotter
Biography
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.
Meadows' most famous movies include: Undercurrent, Song of the Thin Man, David and Bathsheba, Lady in the Lake, Enchantment.
Among her earliest television appearances, Meadows played reporter Helen Brady in the 1953 Suspense episode F.O.B. Vienna. She was a regular panelist on the original version of I've Got a Secret and an occasional panelist on What's My Line?. She also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood. Prior to Allen's death in 2000, the couple made several television appearances together; in 1998 they played an argumentative elderly couple in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street. In 1999, the couple made their last joint TV appearance in the Diagnosis: Murder episode The Roast, which marked Steve Allen's final screen appearance. She also appeared in City Slickers.
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Known For
TV Shows (45)

Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Lila Lee Amberson

Diagnosis: Murder
1993
as Connie Masters

The Love Boat
1977
as Myrna Foster / Jayne Meadows / Mrs. Tate / Gertrude Benson / Gwen Finley

The Nanny
1993
as Jayne Meadows

Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Jessica Humboldt

Adam-12
1968
as Ida Huntington

Love, American Style
1969
as Tana

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950

The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self

What's My Line?
1950
as Self / Self - Panelist

Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
as Mrs. Cochran

St. Elsewhere
1982
as Olga Oseransky

Hotel
1982

Studio One
1948
as Leslie

Medical Center
1969
as Nurse Chambers

Trapper John, M.D.
1979

Here's Lucy
1968
as Laura Trenton

Matt Houston
1982

The Oscars
1953
as Self

Switch
1975
as Andrea

The Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self

Suspense
1949
as Helen Brady

I've Got a Secret
1952
as Self

Crazy like a Fox
1984
as Vi

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969
as Self

Your Show of Shows
1950
as Various

The Outsider
1968
as LIl

Temperatures Rising
1972
as Miss Brandon

Good Morning World
1967
as Mary Margaret

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980
as Ruth LaCross

Enos
1980

High Society
1995
as Alice

Alice in Wonderland
1985
as Queen of Hearts

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Rita Solomon / Anna Ella Carroll

General Electric Theater
1953
as Jean Fletcher

The Practice
1976

The Judy Garland Show
1963
as Self

The Ann Sothern Show
1958
as Liza Vincent

The Nancy Walker Show
1976
as Georgia

Meeting of Minds
1977
as Self

Aloha Paradise
1981
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
1950
It's Not Easy
1983
as Ruth Long

Sisters
1991
as Ida Benbow
The Wil Shriner Show
1987
as Self
Movies (37)

Casino
1995
as Jayne Meadows

The Player
1992
as Jayne Meadows

Undercurrent
1946
as Sylvia Burton

The Story of Us
1999
as Dot

City Slickers
1991
as Mitch's Mom

David and Bathsheba
1951
as Michal

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010
as (archive footage)

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
1994
as Mitch's Mother

Night of 100 Stars III
1990
as Self

The Movie Orgy
1968
as Self (archive footage)

It Happened to Jane
1959
as Jayne Meadows

Song of the Thin Man
1947
as Janet Thayar

The Ratings Game
1984
as Jayne Meadows

Lady in the Lake
1946
as Mildred Haveland

The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979
as Self

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956
as Host

The Luck of the Irish
1948
as Frances Augur

Sex and the Married Woman
1977
as Irma Caddish

Dark Delusion
1947
as Mrs. Selkirk

Enchantment
1948
as Selina Dane

James Dean
1976
as Reva Randall

The Fat Man
1951
as Jane Adams

Have I Got a Christmas for You
1977
as Rita

Da Capo
1985
as Mrs. Thomas

Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon
1989
as Charlotte Brink

College Confidential
1960
as Betty Duquesne

The Gossip Columnist
1980
as Jayne Meadows

The Jackie Bison Show
1990
as (voice)

James Dean: A Portrait
1995
as Self

Miss All-American Beauty
1982
as Gertrude Hunnicutt
A Masterpiece of Murder
1986
as Matilda Hussey

Norman... Is That You?
1976
as Adele Hobart

Murder by Numbers
1990
as Pamela

Don't Ask Me, Ask God
1984
as Self

Computability: How to Make the Most of Your Home Computer
1984

Now You See It, Now You Don't
1968
as Ida

Starfest: The Stars Salute Public Television 1983
1983
About Jayne Meadows
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. Meadows' most famous movies include: Undercurrent, Song of the Thin Man, David and Bathsheba, Lady in the Lake, Enchantment. Among her earliest television appearances, Meadows played reporter Helen Brady in the 1953 Suspense episode F.O.B. Vienna. She was a regular panelist on the original version of I've Got a Se… With 82 credits spanning from 1946 to 2010, Jayne Meadows has appeared in 37 films and 45 TV shows.
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