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After Wyman's death, a release posted on her official website confirmed these details. She may have moved her birthday back by one day to January 4 so as to share the same birthday as her daughter, Maureen. The most likely reason for the 1914 year of birth is that she added to her age in order to gain employment doing odd jobs and working as an actress, even though she was still a minor. įor many years, Wyman's birthdate was widely reported to be January 4, 1914, but research by biographers and genealogists indicated that she was actually born three years later. That same year, she began a radio singing career, calling herself Jane Durrell and adding years to her birthdate to work legally because she was under-aged.

In 1930, the two moved back to Missouri, where Sarah Jane attended Lafayette High School in Saint Joseph. In 1928, aged 11, she moved to Southern California with her foster mother. Wyman later said 'I was raised with such strict discipline that it was years before I could reason myself out of the bitterness I brought from my childhood.' Her unsettled family life resulted in few pleasurable memories. She took their surname unofficially, including in her school records and on her marriage certificate to first husband Ernest Wyman. Fulks, the chief of detectives in Saint Joseph. After his death, her mother moved to Cleveland, Ohio, leaving her to be reared by foster parents, Emma (née Reiss) and Richard D. In October 1921, her biological parents divorced and her father died unexpectedly three months later. The 1920 census showed her to be the only child from the marriage, and aged three years old on January 15, 1920, and living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wyman's birth parents were married in March 1916 in Jackson County, Missouri. Wyman was an only child biologically, but she had two foster siblings, whom she would refer to when saying she was the youngest of three. Her father was a meal company laborer and her mother was a doctor's stenographer and office assistant. Joseph, Missouri, to Gladys Hope ( née Christian 1891–1960) and Manning Jeffries Mayfield (1895–1922). Sarah Jane Mayfield was born on January 5, 1917, in St. Wyman was the first wife of Hollywood actor and the future 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan. In her later years, she achieved continuing success on the soap opera Falcon Crest (1981–1990), portraying the role of villainous matriarch Angela Channing. She received four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, winning for Johnny Belinda (1948). A popular contract player, she frequently played the leading lady, appearing in films such as Public Wedding (1937), Brother Rat (1938), its sequel Brother Rat and a Baby (1940), Bad Men of Missouri (1941), Stage Fright (1950), So Big (1953), Magnificent Obsession (1954), and All That Heaven Allows (1955).

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Wyman's professional career began at age 16 in 1933, when she signed with Warner Bros. She received an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Jane Wyman ( / ˈ w aɪ m ə n/ WY-mən born Sarah Jane Mayfield Janu– September 10, 2007) was an American actress. 3, including Maureen Reagan and Michael Reagan

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