Jane Wyman Net Worth

#Fact1On an episode of Falcon Crest (1981), her character was hospitalized in a coma, in real-life, before filming, she was also hospitalized.2On Falcon Crest (1981), she was the grandmother, in real-life, she was also a grandmother of 2.3Knew Lorenzo Lamas since his birth.4During the last season of Falcon Crest (1981), her character was hospitalized in a coma, in real-life, she was hospitalized, the year before the last season started.5When she married Myron Futterman, she wanted to have children, her first husband didn't. She would later divorce him, a year later.6When Wyman received the script for her starring role on Falcon Crest (1981), she was undecided about undertaking her character, so different from the self-sacrificing characters of her movie days.7To protect and prevent her health, she fell asleep early, before arriving to work early on the set of Falcon Crest (1981).8She brought along her old family and her old friends to the set of Falcon Crest (1981).9Met Julie London, Virginia Mayo, Eve Arden and Lauren Bacall, when the five were under contract with Warner Bros. in 1949. Wyman was (by far) the longest-running member of the contract company, since she was 19.10When one of her Falcon Crest (1981) co-stars, Lorenzo Lamas, was bungling his lines, she cautioned him not to come to work, when battling drugs.11She and her first husband Ronald Reagan had a stillborn daughter Christine June 27, 1947.12Lifelong friends of: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Merv Griffin, Arlene Dahl, Esther Williams, Doris Day and Agnes Moorehead.13She was left-handed. When it was shown in Johnny Belinda (1948), her character tried to print her name in chalk.14At least nine actors named her as their favorite actress: Anne Jeffreys, Jane Greer, Eddie Albert, Celeste Holm, John Saxon, Gina Lollobrigida, Shannon Tweed, Cindy Morgan and Bob Curtis, all nine worked with her on Falcon Crest (1981).15Her ex-Falcon Crest (1981) co-star, Lorenzo Lamas, had said in an interview, Wyman was the grandmother he never had.16She was most widely known to be a very private and shy lady.17Was the 32nd actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Johnny Belinda (1948) at The 21st Academy Awards on March 24, 1949.18Her children to attended boarding school.19Met Aaron Spelling on Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (1955), where the two became friends, until Spelling's death in 2006.20The hardest scene she'd ever worked on was with Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend (1945).21Longtime friend of Dick Powell. She and Ronald Reagan both attended his funeral in 1963.22Worked with Fred MacMurray in both: Bon Voyage! (1962) and on My Three Sons (1960).23Despite her divorce from Ronald Reagan, they remained close friends until his death in 2004.24Her favorite comedienne was Betty Hutton.25Was considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).26Now living in Palm Springs, California, in retirement. [April 2003]27Was a longtime friend of Eve Arden, who guest-starred alongside Wyman on Falcon Crest (1981).28Began her show Falcon Crest (1981) at age 64.29She studied music at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.30Before Merv Griffin became a successful talk show host and producer, he worked with her, when he began his contract career at Warner Bros. in 1954.31When Sarah Jane was age 15, she landed a job as dancer in the chorus of Busby Berkeley's The Kid from Spain (1932) at MGM. Other dancers and unfamiliar actresses on the lot included Lucille Ball, Betty Grable and Paulette Goddard.32Had missed two episodes of Falcon Crest (1981), because she underwent abdominal surgery at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, just 3 days before her 69th Birthday. An adhesion on her intestine was removed there, making her surgery so successful. [2 January 1986].33Resided in Santa Monica, California, from 1985 to 1993.34Jane Wyman was deceased on September 10, 2007. Her longtime friend, Merv Griffin, died on August 12, 2007, just 4 weeks before her.35Of German descent.36On her retirement in 1993, she moved to Rancho Mirage, California, and lived there until she died.37Appeared on the front cover of TV Guide four times.38Missed a lot of episodes in the last season of Falcon Crest (1981), because of the direction the show was going.39Jack Benny gave Jane her nickname of Minnie Mouse because he believed that she resembled what the Disney character would look life if human.40Acting mentor and friends of Lorenzo Lamas, Ana Alicia and David Selby.41She was the last surviving member of Brother Rat (1938).42Grandmother of Cameron and Ashley.43Quit her hosting duties on Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (1955), because she was exhausted from putting on a miniature movie once a week.44Her adopted son Michael Reagan had a recurring role on Falcon Crest (1981) with her.45Was raised Roman Catholic.46Created the character of Angela Channing of Falcon Crest (1981), who also had no intention of letting her character become a sort of J.R. Ewing of the wine business who felt she was representing all women in business. She was also a very, tough character at first, but wanted Angela to show she was also capable of love.47After she won the Oscar, Jack Warner announced Wyman for "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Ethan Frome.' Vivien Leigh played the role in "Streetcar" and Warner Bros. never made "Frome.".48Was buried as a third-degree nun [from an interview by Michael Reagan to Megyn Kelly on America Live (2010) on May 29, 2012].49Was supposed to reprise her role as Aunt Polly in The Adventures of Pollyanna (1982), but was unavailable, because she was under contract working on Falcon Crest (1981), hence, the role was ultimately given to Shirley Jones.50Was reported that she also died of natural causes in her sleep.51After her guest-starring role on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993), she retired from acting at age 76.52She and Eddie Albert were best friends from 1938 to Thursday, May 26, 2005, when Eddie Albert lost his life.53Was also a friend of John Forsythe. Coincidentally, Wyman starred on Falcon Crest (1981), after Forsythe starred on Dynasty (1981), in the same year.54Had relocated from Los Angeles and back to Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1930, when young Jane was only age 13.55Best remembered by the public for her starring role as Angela Channing on Falcon Crest (1981).56Went into semi-retirement after she starred in two failed TV pilots in the 1960s and 1970s.57Wrote a soliloquy for the series finale of Falcon Crest (1981).58After her retirement from acting, and long before her death, she attended other charity and honorable events, as well as the funeral of her best friends.59Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman had a daughter Christine who was born June 26, 1947 and lived 9 hours.60Had met her first husband, Ronald Reagan, on the set of Brother Rat (1938).61Interred at Forest Lawn Mortuary and Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California, USA.62Survived by two grandchildren and one adopted grandchild.63After her father's death and the divorce of her mother, she lived with her foster mother, when she was a little girl.64Her ex-husband, Ronald Reagan, died of complications of Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia. [5 June 2004].65Former sister-in-law of Neil Reagan.66Ranks fourth behind Mickey Rooney, Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, but in front of Eddie Albert and Ernest Borgnine, in appearances of movies, she was featured in over 80 films.67Was a heavy smoker for years.68She died only 9 months before her Falcon Crest (1981) co-star Mel Ferrer.69Was born in the same city as Ruth Warrick.70Future Falcon Crest (1981) co-stars, David Selby, Ana Alicia and Lorenzo Lamas were all being idolized by her, during childhood.71The youngest of three children.72Began singing and dancing at an early age.73The first actress ever to have lots of name changes. After she took the name of Sarah Jane Fulks, she dropped her first name and used Jane, as her middle name, hence, she legally changed her name to Jane Durrell, however, she was asked to change her last name to Wyman, the same last name as her adoptive siblings - her mother had first been married to a Dr. Weymann.74Before she was a successful actress, she had lots of jobs, especially that of a radio singer.75She had been battling health problems for years, so producers thought they rewrote the scripts in such a way that her character didn't do most of the walking on the Falcon Crest (1981) set.76Her best friend Esther Williams is the stepmother of Falcon Crest (1981), co-star, Lorenzo Lamas, whose father was Fernando Lamas, who married Williams on New Years' Eve, 1969, till his death in 1982. Ironically, Wyman, Lamas and Williams, knew each other for many years, before.77Was a staunch Republican.78Her parents were Gladys Hope Christian, an a doctor's stenographer and office assistant and Manning Jefferies Mayfield, a meal-company laborer.79Remained good friends with Susan Sullivan and Lorenzo Lamas during and after Falcon Crest (1981).80Was hospitalized with a liver ailment and diabetes after she collapsed on the set of Falcon Crest (1981)'s ninth season. [20 February 1989].81Was a spokesperson for the National Arthritis Foundation from the mid-1970s.82On an episode of Falcon Crest (1981), Wyman's movie The Blue Veil (1951), showed flashback scenes when her character reminisces about being told in the hospital that her newborn son had died.83Was a very good friend of Aaron Spelling. She appeared on both of his shows: Charlie's Angels (1976) and The Love Boat (1977).84Met Lorenzo Lamas's father, Fernando Lamas, on an episode of Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (1955), when at the time of filming, Lorenzo was a 3 month old infant. By the time Lorenzo Lamas was 21, he persistently auditioned for a co-starring role in the long-running TV series, Falcon Crest (1981), opposite Wyman, as her grandson. His persistence paid off, and he won the role.85Was not the first choice for Angela Channing on Falcon Crest (1981). It was after her best friend Barbara Stanwyck turned down this part, that producers Earl Hamner Jr. and Michael Filerman immediately cast her in the role.86Lived in a retirement home in Palm Springs, California, before she resided at the Rancho Mirage Country Club, where she died.87Wyman had appeared in almost every episode of Falcon Crest (1981) from 1981 to 1989, before she missed 16 episodes in the final season. Against her doctor's advice, she came back for the series' final three shows, for a total of 208 of the 227 episodes of the series.88In 1991, she received the Golda Meir Award from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.89Her father, Manning Jefferies Mayfield, died when she was only 5.90Her Falcon Crest (1981) co-star, Susan Sullivan, won the 1998 Jane Wyman Award at the Arthritis Foundation.91Her Falcon Crest (1981) co-stars, Susan Sullivan and Lorenzo Lamas, both went to visit her in the hospital, while the ninth and final season was filming.92Began her career as a contract player for Warner Bros. in 1936.93Was the recipient of the Charles B. Harding Award in 1977, which was the highest national award given by The Arthritis Foundation.94She had 10 hobbies: landscape painting, golfing, dancing, collecting CDs, listening to music, playing piano, singing, philanthropy, reading and politics.95She dropped out of Lafayette High School, during her freshman year, and took on odd jobs such as a waitress and manicurist.96She attended Lafayette High School in St. Joseph, Missouri.97Was a close friend of USC School of Cinematic Arts professor Drew Casper.98In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by either Lidia Simoneschi or Dhia Cristiani. She was occasionally dubbed by Rosetta Calavetta, Renata Marini, Rina Morelli or Giovanna Scotto.99She would never talk about Ronald Reagan in an interview, but voted for him three times and attended his funeral.100Replaced Gracie Allen for an evening of "The Burns and Allen Radio Show" when Gracie had a migraine. It turned out to be the only time Gracie missed their show in all the years Burns and Allen performed together.101Was very good friends with: Julie London, John Forsythe, Barbara Stanwyck, Virginia Mayo, Rod Taylor, Dennis Morgan, Alexis Smith, Chao Li Chi, Bob Curtis, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Robert Conrad, Ernest Borgnine, Danny Thomas, Buddy Ebsen, Cary Grant, Robert Mitchum, Cesar Romero, Doris Day, Fernando Lamas, Arlene Dahl, Betty Grable, Carol Channing, Anne Jeffreys, Esther Williams, Ann Doran, Ray Milland, Loretta Young, Tony Curtis, Betty Hutton, Mickey Rooney, Aaron Spelling, Earl Hamner Jr., Larry Hagman, Barbara Bel Geddes, Howard Keel, Eddie Albert, Gavin MacLeod, Ann Sheridan, Eve Arden, Karl Malden, Abby Dalton, Ruta Lee, Claire Trevor, Fred MacMurray, William Demarest, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Broderick Crawford, Rock Hudson, Leslie Nielsen, Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, Lauren Bacall, Yvonne De Carlo and Agnes Moorehead.102Before she was a successful actress, she was a chorus girl.103Appeared in every episode of Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (1955) and was nominated for an Emmy twice.104Daughter, Maureen Reagan, was admitted to the John Wayne Cancer Institute for malignant melanoma. [11 December 2000]105Would never talk about Ronald Reagan in an interview.106Has 2 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.107Was always good friends with Loretta Young.108Was a diabetic.109Had taken a break on the ninth and final season of Falcon Crest (1981), during the third episode, due to the health problems she was suffering, but came back for the last three episodes of the series.110Before she was a successful actress, she was once a switchboard operator.111Holds the record for the longest screen kiss, with Regis Toomey in You're in the Army Now (1941), at 3 minutes and 5 seconds.112Daughter, with third husband - actor/former president Ronald Reagan - Maureen Reagan dies of malignant melanoma (skin cancer) at her Sacramento-area home. [August 2001]113Mother of Maureen Reagan and Michael Reagan.114Apparently broke up with Ronald Reagan over her love for Lew Ayres, but that relationship failed in the long run.115Several sources have given her date of birth as January 4, 1914, which would mean she was one of the first (and one of the very few) actresses to make herself older. She is a serious convert to Roman Catholicism, attending Mass with good friend Loretta Young.116Her name changed to "Jane Faulks" when she was unofficially "adopted" by the Faulks family, middle-aged neighbors of her single mother. Moved to So. California with Mrs. Faulks when she was widowed in 1928117Adopted mother of nationally syndicated radio talk show host Michael Reagan.118Her Best Actress Oscar for Johnny Belinda (1948) makes her the only wife of a future U.S. President (Ronald Reagan) ever to win such an award.