Jayne Meadows (September 27, 1919 – April 26, 2015), also known as Jayne Meadows-Allen, was an American stage, film and television actress, as well as an author and lecturer. She was nominated for three Emmy Awards during her career. Meadows' most famous movies include: Undercurrent, Song of the Thin Man, David and Bathsheba, Lady in the Lake, Enchantment. Among her earliest television appearances, Meadows played reporter Helen Brady in the 1953 Suspense episode F.O.B. Vienna. She was a regular panelist on the original version of I've Got a Secret and an occasional panelist on What's My Line?. She also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood. Prior to Allen's death in 2000, the couple made several television appearances together; in 1998 they played an argumentative elderly couple in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street. In 1999, the couple made their last joint TV appearance in the Diagnosis: Murder episode The Roast, which marked Steve Allen's final screen appearance. She also appeared in City Slickers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jayne Meadows, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 20102Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift — (archive footage)
• 1999The Story of Us — Dot
• 1995Casino — Jayne Meadows
• High Society — Alice
• 1994City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold — Mitch's Mother
• Diagnosis: Murder — Connie Masters
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Mrs. Cochran
• The Nanny — Jayne Meadows
• 1992The Player — Jayne Meadows
• 1991City Slickers — Mitch's Mom
• Sisters — Ida Benbow
• 1990Murder by Numbers — Pamela
• 1990The Jackie Bison Show — (voice)
• 1989Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon — Charlotte Brink
• 1986A Masterpiece of Murder — Matilda Hussey
• Alice in Wonderland — Queen of Hearts
• 1985Da Capo — Mrs. Thomas
• 1984Computability: How to Make the Most of Your Home Computer
• Crazy like a Fox — Vi
• Murder, She Wrote — Lila Lee Amberson
• 1984The Ratings Game — Jayne Meadows
• It's Not Easy — Ruth Long
• 1983Starfest: The Stars Salute Public Television 1983
• Hotel
• Matt Houston — Holly Harkens
• 1982Miss All-American Beauty — Gertrude Hunnicutt
• St. Elsewhere — Olga Oseransky
• Aloha Paradise
• Enos
• Tenspeed and Brown Shoe — Ruth LaCross
• 1980The Gossip Columnist — Jayne Meadows
• Trapper John, M.D.
• 1977Have I Got a Christmas for You — Rita
• 1977Sex and the Married Woman — Irma Caddish
• The Love Boat — Myrna Foster, Jayne Meadows, Mrs. Tate, Gertrude Benson, Gwen Finley
• 1976James Dean — Reva Randall
• 1976Norman... Is That You? — Adele Hobart
• The Nancy Walker Show — Georgia
• The Practice
• Switch — Andrea
• Temperatures Rising — Miss Brandon
• Hawaii Five-O — Jessica Humboldt
• Love, American Style — Tana
• Medical Center — Nurse Chambers
• Adam-12 — Ida Huntington
• Here's Lucy — Laura Trenton
• 1968Now You See It, Now You Don't — Ida
• The Outsider — LIl
• Good Morning World — Mary Margaret
• 1960College Confidential — Betty Duquesne
• 1959It Happened to Jane — Jayne Meadows
• The Ann Sothern Show — Liza Vincent
• 1956New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant' — Host
• General Electric Theater — Jean Fletcher
• 1951David and Bathsheba — Michal
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Rita Solomon, Anna Ella Carroll
• 1951The Fat Man — Jane Adams
• Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
• Robert Montgomery Presents
• Your Show of Shows — Various
• Suspense — Helen Brady
• 1948Enchantment — Selina Dane
• Studio One — Leslie
• 1948The Luck of the Irish — Frances Augur
• 1947Dark Delusion — Mrs. Selkirk
• 1947Song of the Thin Man — Janet Thayar
• 1946Lady in the Lake — Mildred Haveland
• 1946Undercurrent — Sylvia Burton

Appearances as themselves (15)

• 1995James Dean: A Portrait — Self
• 1990Night of 100 Stars III — Self
• The Wil Shriner Show — Self
• 1984Don't Ask Me, Ask God — Self
• 1979The Muppets Go Hollywood — Self (uncredited)
• Meeting of Minds — Self
• The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour — Self
• 1968The Movie Orgy — Self (archive footage)
• Hollywood Squares — Self
• The Judy Garland Show — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• The Steve Allen Show — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• I've Got a Secret — Self
• What's My Line? — Self