Jayne Meadows

Also Credited As:

Jayne Cotter, Jayne Meadows Allen, Jane Meadows Cotter
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Biography

Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows enjoyed a rich, varied and celebrated career under her own name, quite apart from that of her television pioneer husband and co-star. Born in China at the start of the Chinese Civil War, Meadows and her family escaped to America where she followed her acting dreams to Hollywood. A contract player for MGM after World War II, Meadows rose quickly from supporting such stars as Katharine Hepburn, William Powell and Myrna …
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Job Title

Actor

Born

Jane Meadows Cotter on September 27, 1920 in Wu-Ch'ang, , CN

LATEST CREDITS

Steve Allen's Laugh-Back

Actor

Mathnet: Despair in Monterey Bay

Lady Astute

A Masterpiece of Murder

Matilda Hussey

The Art Linkletter Show

Regular

54th Annual King Orange Jamboree Parade

Grand Marshall

Miss All-American Beauty

Gertrude Hunnicutt

Vaudeville

Guest

It's Not Easy

Ruth Long; Jack's mother

Inside TV Land

Interviewee

Now You See It, Now You Don't

Ida

James Dean

Reva Randall

The Jackie Bison Show

of Mrs St Fawn

Medical Center

Nurse Chambers

67th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade

Actor

Murder By Numbers

Actor

Undercurrent

Actor

Love, Lust & Marriage: Why We Stray and Why We Stay

Actor

I've Got a Secret

Panelist

Sex and the Married Woman

Irma Caddish

High Society

Alice

Parent Trap Hawaiian Honeymoon

Charlotte Brink

Norman... Is That You?

Adele Hobart--Garson's Mother

Steve Allen

Interviewee

Rise and Shine

Mrs Moffett