Jane Wyman - "The Joan Blondell of the Bs"

[@Spiderman7Bob7]

Jane Wyman was one of the most popular MOVIE STARS of her era. Men as well as women liked her. Few stars of today can compare with her. But like Jane's interview here she explaines how back-in-the-day studio's groomed their actors. They had training that no acting school can do. Gee, I'm glad I was old enough to appreciate those stars of The Golden Age of Hollywood.

[@akrenwinkle]

You might say that each (big) studio did have an acting coach to work with its contract players. Funny thing regarding MGM's Lillian Sidney. Debbie Reynolds swore by her, praised her as a great teacher. Esther Williams derided her "one-style fits all" method.

[@wally1452]

I loved (LOVE!) Miss Wyman ever since I first saw her in later 1940,s-1950's until I die. This, my friends, this is one of the great actors that gave us very much happiness in the "movies." She is The Golden Yearss of Hollywood. Thank you for posting this.

[@NoHu4]

Simply first class. There's nothing "B" about Jane Wyman. Grade A all the way. As a few posts have suggested, today's students and rising stars should take note. Thank you for posting this gem of an interview!

[@wally1452]

Yes, yes, yes! I cannot say it any better. I love jane Wyman ever since I first saw her...and I am very grateful she got the Oscar for Belinda years ago. All I remember of this very young, very intelligent, incredibly beautiful actress is the finest performances and now I am very old, in 2023, and I still am happily watching her films and I always believed that what we see here, in interviews as this...this is the Miss Wyman... truly...she comes across being so honest and kind, everything that is good. Since a young boy in the 1940's-50's I saw her, adored her. I wish I would have met her any time in my life. She is wonderfully different from many "big" stars or important persons...she praises very many who helped make her into the great star she became and she is not acting here. I will ramble on this woman of all women that very much brought us the "Golden Years" of Hollywood & stayed in that time all her life...(so humble always.)

[@lvitorrodrigues]

Her films with Douglas Sirk are so good! I love All that Heaven Allows and Magnificent Obsession, both incredible films with amazing performances.

[@RyanHLee-nc7hg]

I am an anachronism in 2021, a 28-year-old who should have been born 50 or 60 years earlier. And yet, I have never seen Jane Wyman in a film before. After watching this spectacular interview with this captivating lady, I will have to change that. She is quite impressive.

[@Melinda8162]

Oh wow, I wish I was 28 again! Even though I liked the era then, I hate getting old!

[@scottgauthier6537]

Watch The Yearling

[@kevinbrown4073]

Highly recommend the lost weekend if you enjoy Jane Wyman

[@harpervalleypeeteeay9708]

Watch " Miracle in the Rain"

[@harpervalleypeeteeay9708]

Every time I see her I think of her movie Miracle in the Rain

[@DAVEJJR]

Jane’s performance in “Johnny Belinda” has to be one of the greatest testimonies to the acting profession of all time. When Belinda prays the Our Father over her dad’s body, man, your heart must be made of stone if you can’t feel her pain and sorrow. She truly deserved that Oscar….

[@MovieJon]

This is one of the BEST of these interviews. She's so insightful, engaging, snappy, amusing, brightly reflective... and it is such a contrast to the craggy, ruthless matriarch she portrayed so convincingly on "Falcon Crest." Sometimes that sort of persona would be used to depict her in the media at the time, but she's 180-degrees from that here. Love the tasteful dress and jewelry, too.

[@CharlesWhite-wh4cc]

I agree with everything you say. She was brilliant I'm Falcon Crest. She came out of retirement to do the series and the show always introduced old hollywood stars back to television I love the way she described respect. Soo eloquently spoken!!!!!!!!!💯🇺🇸🌷

[@Jubiejones]

Jane reminds me very much of Maureen O'Hara at that time (1995); the way she spoke....so articulate...so informed. Just simply a class act.

[@DrMoorehen]

Coming from Ireland, i so agree!

[@storybellz]

I was just thinking how she reminds me of Karen Sharp Kramer - Stanley Kramer’s widow. They have practically the same voice.

[@elizabethdouglas3417]

I have always been an old movie lover, and I just recently became obsessed with Jane Wyman films, so this interview is glorious. What a brilliant, articulate lady.

[@happyface4713]

I was born and raised in St. Joseph, MO and most of my life I was aware that Ms Wyman was from St. Joseph. The citizens were very proud of that fact. She is in the middle of our history of the beginning of the Pony Express and the end of Jesse James.

[@ToughXArmy69]

Jane Wyman was a major star, Oscar winning actress. I also admire Wyman because she never commented on Ronald Reagan. When President Reagan died, Wyman issued a statement " America has lost a great President and a Dear Man". I loved Wyman as Angela Channing in Falcon Crest!

[@daddy2299]

I heard one comment that Ms. Wyman had about Reagan. Right after their divorce she told Bette Davis, "He's so boring. Oh well, at least I never have to see that damned King's Row again." Lol

[@rah62]

I loved bumper stickers at the time which read "JANE WYMAN WAS RIGHT"

[@piustwelfth]

@@rah62 Actually Jane Wyman was wrong. She could have been First Lady of the USA. She vastly underestimated the talent and skill of her husband.

[@gardenroom65]

@@piustwelfthand manipulation of Nancy!

[@piustwelfth]

@@gardenroom65 "manipulation"? Lol. She's the one who pursued him, and she changed him from a liberal Democrat to a conservative Republican. You really need to GET INFORMED!

[@holyspacemonkey]

Wonderful interview. Nice to hear her talk about The Blue Veil at around 36:00. Such a great film! I still hope it will get restored and released for home viewing.

[@stevehinnenkamp5625]

Whatever age Miss Wyman was during interview, she is intelligent, candid and should be studied by those pursuing an acting career. She is tremendous!

[@randypeterson8005]

Q

[@thraciangrapes]

And her biography is fabulous

[@walkerpantera]

I wondered as well, born in 17, interview is in 95 which puts her at 78 at the time of this interview.

[@SueProst]

What a wonderful interview. Both of them interviewer and interviewee .

[@notnek202]

Golden age of Hollywood never be anything like it again. This woman could teach the current crop of so called actresses a thing or two. humility is one.

[@jimrick6632]

THANKS FOR DOWNLOADING THIS...LOVED JANE WYMAN.....

[@onetime3738]

What a lovely humble person she is.

[@keisha4620]

Thank you for posting. A great heart-felt actress...she was wonderful in "Miracle in the Rain", "Johnny Belinda" , and the remake of "So Big".

[@Cali_Flowers]

Jane Wyman 💕 Hey, TCM! Just so you know, your ‘31 Days of Oscar’ festival has FAR surpassed the actual Oscar ceremony in enjoyment & education for me! Thank you for holding it every year & showing the movies I love! 🎬

[@SM-gl8yo]

Ms. Wyman is a winner with an attitude to match. Lovely interview. She was so focused on praising those she worked WITH and swept her own triumphs to the side.

[@chgoboy69]

So wonderful to hear Jane talk about her career and talking about others in Hollywood who were friends and people she admired. Not full of ego as so many could be.

[@linniem5982]

I never did have a good impression of Ms. Wyman but I have changed my mind. She is very professional and on the ball. I like her vibrant personality and positive attitude. I also always admired her ability to never bad mouth any one.

[@piustwelfth]

Her personality was much different that her stern portrayals in later TV roles which is how many were introduced to Jane Wyman. Her daughter Maureen had the same personality.

[@pragmaticcat7619]

Jane is my favorite! I just loved Johnny Belinda.

[@4Topwood]

Absolutely adore her. Marvelously talented actress and a fascinating woman, very grounded. ❤

[@Theo-pd3ny]

She's one of my favourite EVER from the Golden Age! So sweet, intelligent and charming...and WHAT AN ACTRESS!

[@kathypillow5471]

One of my favorite movies is Stage Fright. The chemistry & dialogue between Jane Wyman & Alistair Sim is wonderful. Excellent cast & story. Direction by Hitchcock.

[@rowley555]

Great interview 👍. Very articulate and eloquent without sounding pretentious. Lovely lady.

[@tomtagliente1464]

Jane Wyman was an amazingly good actress. I loved her work. STAGE FRIGHT, THE LOST WEEKEND, POLLYANNA, FALCON CREST, DR. QUINN: MEDICINE WOMAN... she was a scene stealer in everything. One of my favorite quotes of Jane's is below. "The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet another human being."

[@BoBo-ti6jh]

I love her. Great talent and star.

[@SaxonC]

She was perfect as Angela Channing on Falcon Crest! I’ve loved Ms. Wyman long before she played that iconic role! The best! ❤

[@Tickerage]

So Big, Lucy Gallant, All That Heaven Allows. Such great movies with Jane!

[@akrenwinkle]

I saw "Lucy Gallant" on the Late, Late, Late show as a teenager and remember the fashion show part. Edith Head was in it!

[@montanawyck]

So glad I’m able to watch interviews like this to help me study my favorite actresses so that I can try and use them for inspiration in my own career 💗

[@divox9pqr]

Ms. Wyman was a great interview...very revealing, and humorous.... RIP.

[@leannesmith3480]

Movie stars of that era had such poise and were so self assured.

[@andyroo9381]

I only know Ms. Jane Wyman from "Falcon Crest". I have never seen a movie she was in. I had no idea she won an Academy Award either! Her character, on Falcon Crest, was so ruthless and here she is just as open, honest and chatty as can be.

[@hudsony777]

Have you seen any since you wrote this?

[@parmindersinghsidhu4734]

What a wonderful lady down to earth filled with grace and good manners.

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

What a fabulous woman/actress!!! Clearly intelligent, clever and witty!

[@moviemonster2083]

We forget now how big a star Jane was in the fifties. She was 'it' during that decade. She could do no wrong and went from one hit to another. One of my faves, even though it's not considered her best, was her turn in a movie called, 'Just For You', (1952), a musical with Bing Crosby. An early-adolescent Natalie Wood played his daughter. Wyman was wonderful and got to demonstrate her singing and dancing talents. Hers is another very interesting, enlightening chapter in the story of Hollywood.

[@texan903]

I don't think anyone forgot how much of a star, an icon really, that Jane Wyman was.

[@NancySanders-om4ic]

Thank you,for sharing this very interesting interview with Ms.Wyman.She was quite a genuine,honest human being.

[@markjohnson4371]

To me, she will always be Angela Gioberti Channing. She was magnificent

[@bbrown333]

She seems like she was a serious person and a woman of integrity. A real Pro! RIP

[@MariaLacsamana-ik3in]

Another 1 of hollywoods greatest actresses during the golden era in Hollywood thanks for this interview I ❤❤❤❤ it n I enjoyed it tremendously 😅😅😅😅😅

[@jc0730]

A truly great talent!

[@tedwatson9929]

wow... awesome woman ....i want to see all of her best movies

[@Norwayson]

Great talented actress with a personality of a genuine star

[@jasbegs1258]

A truly lovely interview with JW.

[@rubyromaine3911]

She was a class act and sharp right up until the end.

[@franciscocilloniz4216]

Miss Jane Wyman is a cut above the rest : magical, special, warm, intelligent and a great woman, actress, artist and a gentle lady .. ! ☀️☀️🤶🌎🌎

[@jamesfox2579]

She's such a lovely Woman!💕

[@Garsons-oq4lh]

But apparently not to Tommy Kirk in Bon Voyage. Below are two of his recollections: "I thought Jane Wyman was a hard, cold woman and I got to hate her by the time I was through with Bon Voyage. Of course, she didn't like me either, so I guess it came natural. I think she had some suspicion that I was gay and all I can say is that, if she didn't like me for that, she doesn't like a lot of people." "She was very mean to me. She went out of her way to be shitty...but she was a total bitch and I think she was homophobic."

[@cmcb09]

@@Garsons-oq4lh not denying Tommy Kirk’s comments but she had many openly gay chums, could very well be that they just didn't hit it off for some odd reason. She was a perfectionist and didn't have much patience for lesser than that could have been part of it as well.

[@debraday9898]

My favorite movie she did was "So Big" . U cannot rent it on u tube. It only comes up on TCM. It also has Sterling Hayden in it. He is very young.

[@thraciangrapes]

I adore this woman. I think she's very modest, in light of all she achieved. I disagree with all the horrible things people said about her in the past. I read her biography, and I highly recommend it.

[@piustwelfth]

Her daughter Maureen Reagan had a very similar personality -- bubbly and positive-thinking. Also they were both very social.

[@brule1961]

Zing a Little Zong, with Jane, and Bing Crosby is wonderful!!

[@johntlew]

I wish they’d show clips or pics of some of the movies she’s talking about. Fascinating career.

[@RoomscapeLondon]

Wow! What a great intelligent talented interesting woman Jane was!, I could listen for hours to her detailed stories! thank you for this interview which is also a great respectful homage to her legacy....so much in contrast to the shameful split of a second Olivia de Havilland, Rhonda Fleming, Cloris Leachman, Sean Connery and many others that sadly passed this year got at the Oscars!!!

[@dougn2350]

The thing about Jane is this... she doesn't have a negative word to say about anyone.

[@raycurry4168]

I LOVED Jame Wyman and her speaking voice.

[@bobmalack481]

To be on the same page as Joan Blondell in the day is something..Robert at 68. Never forget Helen St. James..LOL!!

[@chrisn7259]

A wonderful versatile actress who aged magnificently.

[@token3237]

Falcon Crest 🌻

[@koflondon1064]

This is wonderful.

[@CharlesWhite-wh4cc]

I agree. Ms wyman was very intelligent and we'll spoken.

[@chipnormandy4537]

I saw her and Nancy Reagan in Sacramento walking to St. Rose of Lima Church back in the 1990s.

[@marietta1335]

Wow. that's amazing! I've read that Jane Wyman converted to Catholicism and became a Third Order Dominican. When she died, she was buried in the same kind of habit that St. Rose of Lima wore. Thanks for this information.

[@alejandrosarachaga9755]

Love Jane!! First lady of hollywood

[@January.]

Wish I could have met all the great stars of yesteryear and meet the greats still with us

[@rjjamison3596]

Just a note, when she mentions being ill and unable to start Belinda right away…she and Ronnie had lost a prematurely born daughter they named Christina. While filming Belinda in Ft Bragg she had an affair with Lew Ayers…and the Reagan marriage was over.

[@gwtwvivien]

I love her in her Douglas Sirks films. Her friendship with Rock Hudson was so honest that Rock always said that Jane made him a star.

[@marietta1335]

I missed a lot of American movies when I was young because I didn't speak English and couldn't understand them. But now I do. I just happened to recently watch "Magnificent Obsession" with Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson and was bowled over by how they thoughtfully interacted with each other. Wyman was at least 6-7 years (?) older than Hudson, but she was so elegant and honest in romancing the Hudson character. Lesser pairs of stars could inadvertently make such scenes cringey, but not so Wyman and Hudson. They were absolutely understandable and believable as screen lovers. Thank you for your explanation.

[@gwtwvivien]

@@marietta1335 I'm so happy you have seen Magnificent Obsession!! It's a wonderful film with two big and lovely Stars. I have a book writen by Rock Hudson and he wrotes how wonderful Wyman was with him. They made two films together. 🌹

[@BlackPantherStudios]

Great TCM video 👍👌👏📸

[@sholeh4334]

What a amazing lady.a nd what a great interview..

[@MissPerriwinkle]

johnny belinda moved me so much when i saw it as a child......such a religious experience

[@johnflanagan3661]

This was wonderful!! Please share your interview with Maureen O’Hara.

[@hudsony777]

Wonderful, informative interview. So many great comments. Loved to hear about Marlene, particularly.

[@mannyespinola]

Thank you for this video

[@helenletos2661]

I liked and respected her for not bad mouthing anyone she worked with. I was surprised however, that when mentioning the big stars at Warner's, and she mentioned quite alot, she failed to mention John Garfield who was at that time, one of Warner Bros leading actors. Also those she worked with when she started out like Ann Sheridan, Dick Powell, Alexis Smith etc.she didn't mention Priscilla Lane who was the leading actress in the Brother Rat movies. Her leading man and future third husband Ronald Reagan was also in BR in 1938 and 1939.

[@johnflynn9619]

Jane was a Magnificent Actress. RIP

[@Pdjohnners]

Wonderful. Class. Pure class.

[@robluck21]

Wonderful Actress

[@mdmphd]

well done - good research and a few surprise questions for her. I wanted to see clips from some of those movies tho

[@fitzspike]

Great video!

[@gjipstra1]

Had no ide what an amazing woman and actress.

[@janewymanfalconcrest6745]

Great interiew!

[@CusterFlux]

Sharp as a tack at 78 … and quite the stunner in her day, the lady must have been a force of nature 🤔

[@indianahoosier6367]

The creator of Falcon Crest really dropped the ball not bringing Falcon Crest back before Jane died, even if it was a mini series or reunion tv movie. We need a #FalconCrest reboot !

[@Garsons-oq4lh]

Wyman's recollection of Dietrich is interesting only because according to Dietrich's daughter her mother did not particularly like Wyman possibly because they were such opposites.

[@fantasyprincessgirl]

That was Aunt Polly Harrington in Disney’s Pollyanna!

[@sudokusensei]

This is the first movie I saw Jane Wyman in. MAGNIFICENT 😊

[@bufb]

Very interesting...calling movie stars by their nicknames because she was personal friends with them all. Gertie ..Aggie. .. Joanie. Very good

[@laxjetbear]

Love this lady and always a joy to see. I’m still confused, though. VE Day, which she said was the day she got a contract with Warner Brother’s, was May 8, 1945, and not May 5, 1936. ????

[@ronvertone6426]

She meant that she will always recall the date of her contract, May 8, 1936, because May 8 was also V-E day in 1945--the ninth anniversary of the signing of her contract.

[@johnvrabec9747]

The Torchy Blaine films are great fun, Glenda was perfect in that role and Jane was really good, too. Glenda, Jane, Joan and Ginger are some of my favorite actresses.

[@catlover34fl]

All That Heaven Allows and So Big are great stories and films. Jane Wyman was unforgettable in them. They didn't seem to make much of them using that tired phrase "women's films." Wish they'd stop using that term "women's films." "Women's films" or not, I love them.

[@hudsony777]

Yes, the term trivializes them. I'm sure we all liked them: men and women.

[@connievino4226]

How could she a B actress? 3 Academy Award nominations and won one.

[@franciscocilloniz4216]

How old is Miss Jane Wyman, .. please .. !!! 🤔🤔🤔🕊🤔🤔🤔

[@franciscocilloniz4216]

94 years old Miss Jane had on earth.

[@krispy6796]

She was a badass

[@robertaverill936]

I discovered her late in her career..("Hotel").. Had NO Idea how fantastic she was in earlier movies.."All that Heaven Allows"..just an ability to forget the acting.. A lesser actor could have made it maudlin.. An amazing performance.. And..she divorced Ron Reagan..so she had smarts too..😁

[@patrickhawkins4677]

Hotel? The TV Show?

[@lezliehayes5346]

Anne Baxter was in Hotel, the tv show. Jane Wyman was in Falcon Crest, the tv show.

[@patrickhawkins4677]

@@lezliehayes5346 Exactly, Jane was never in Hotel. Bette Davis was in the TV movie that eventually became the series with Anne.

[@davidcunningham7330]

Did you mention Magnificent Obsession and I missed it??

[@alexfernandohuenten1374]

Idole

[@Ibarbozza]

Felicidades

[@meboneme1]

When actors were INTELLIGENT enough to have an actual CONVERSATION! NOT SO MUCH THESE DAYS, with their 5 minute clips to SELL SOMETHING!

[@michaelnelson1128]

She could've been the first lady of the United States

[@CD318]

Ronnie!

[@soulsurvivorla]

A total class act all the way! I loved this woman! I always found it confounding that she was ever married to Reagan.

[@piustwelfth]

Why all the Reagan haters? It's unfortunate they don't have class like Miss Wyman.