Jane Wyatt

Jane Waddington Wyatt (born August 12, 1911 in Campgaw, New Jersey) is an American actress. Her most famous roles were as Ronald Colman's love interest in Frank Capra's Lost Horizon (1937); as Margaret Anderson, the mother in the 1950s sitcom Father Knows Best; and as Amanda Grayson, Mr. Spock's mother in ' and '.

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August 12 - 1911 - Campgaw, New Jersey - American - Ronald Colman - Frank Capra - Lost Horizon - 1937 - 1950s - Sitcom - Father Knows Best - Amanda Grayson - Mr. Spock

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Wyatt came from a New York family of social distinction (her father was a Wall Street investment banker and her mother was a drama critic). Jane 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.

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New York City - Barnard College - Stockbridge, Massachusetts

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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 slot on the New York Social Register. Wyatt made the transition from stage to screen and was placed under contract at Unversal and Broadway (and co-starred in Frank Capra's Columbia film Lost Horizon on a loan from Universal).

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Broadway - Rose Hobart - Unversal - Columbia - Lost Horizon

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In the 1950s, she co-starred with Robert Young in Father Knows Best, the classic TV sitcom chronicling the life and times of the Anderson family in the Midwestern town of Springfield.

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Robert Young - Father Knows Best

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