This is Your Life
Howard Keel
Friday 17 February 1995 on BBC-1

Howard Keel is the guest of honour.

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During her marriage to Ronald Reagan they adopted an infant son, Michael Reagan, who is now a nationally syndicated talk radio host. (edit) Her ex-husband, Ronald Reagan, encouraged her to audition for the lead role of Angela Channing in Falcon Crest, after her old friend, Barbara Stanwyck, had turned down the part. (edit) Jane made her film debut in 1937 in The Public Wedding. (edit) Wyman was a devout Catholic convert, who was a strong supporter of Hollywood's Covenant House and Our Lady of the Angels Monastery. (edit) Wyman was best friends with Eddie Albert, Barbara Stanwyck, Loretta Young and Agnes Moorehead. (edit)

Jane Wyman (On her dismissal in the last season of Falcon Crest, by writing a siloloquy for the series' finale): "I wanted to tie up the show, mention everyone who was gone - the grandfather, Melissa, Cole and Maggie, so that the loyal audience we had wouldn't feel cheated if they had been taken in a different direction by the producers that they didn't understand (and frankly, I didn't either). It was a wonderful experience, but I wasn't sorry to see it end because of the way it was going. The first six years of the show were marvelous, then they started tampering with it. I get so much mail from people saying they can't understand what happened." (edit) Jane Wyman: We were just two rows behind Irene Dunne. There was something about the line of her neck that convinced me she was going to get the prize. I was slumped low in my seat, sort of trying to hide so that I could sneak out. I was so sure I wouldn't win that when I heard my name called out, I didn't recognize it. I didn't get up. But Jerry Wald poked me, and my handbag dropped to my lap. My lipstick and everything went rolling onto the floor. I must have been quite a sight trying to pick up things and get to the stage at the same time. I was the most surprised girl in the world. (edit) Jane Wyman (On commenting her newspaper interview in 1968 about politics, after she kept quiet about her ex-husband's second marriage): "It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics." (edit) Jane: The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being. (edit) Jane: I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them. (edit)

Star
Falcon Crest Angela Channing	The Jane Wyman Show Hostess

Recurring Role
The Jane Wyman Show

Guest Star
Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre When Hell Froze Addie Joslin	Charlie's Angels To See an Angel Die Eleanor Willard
Disneyland Pollyanna / Natures Strangest Creatures Aunt Polly	Disneyland Pollyanna (1) Aunt Polly Harrington
Disneyland Pollyanna (1) Aunt Polly Harrington	Disneyland Bon Voyage! (1) Katie Willard