Month: January 2013

History Is Made at Night: Charles Boyer, Greer Garson, Lionel Atwill A Star Is Born: Loretta Young, Adolph Menjou, Burgess Meredith Allergic to Ladies: Errol Flynn, Jane Wyman, Nan Grey, Alan Hale Jane Wyman, born Sarah Jane Mayfield (January 5, 1917 — September 10, 2007)[1], was an American singer, dancer, and film/television actress. She began her film career in the 1930s, and was a prolific performer for two decades. She received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Johnny Belinda (1948), and later achieved renewed success in the 1980s as Angela Channing on Falcon Crest. She was the first wife of Ronald Reagan; they married in 1940 and divorced in June 28, 1948; Reagan was still a Democrat and had not yet made his first run for public office. In 1939, Wyman starred in Torchy Plays With Dynamite. In 1941, she appeared in You’re in the Army Now, in which she and Regis Toomey had the longest screen kiss in cinema history: 3 minutes and 5 seconds,[9] until Elena Undone beat it by eighteen seconds almost 70 years later, in 2010.[10] Wyman finally gained critical notice in the film noir The Lost Weekend (1945). She was nominated for the 1946 Academy Award for Best Actress for The Yearling (1946), and won two years later for her role as a deaf-mute rape victim in Johnny Belinda (1948). She was the first person in the sound era to win an acting Oscar without speaking a line of dialogue. In an amusing acceptance speech, perhaps poking fun at some of her …