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Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Jayne Meadows, Kay Buckley, John Dodsworth, Lumsden Hare, James Robertson Justice, Paula Morgan, Gary Stewart, and Allan Stone in David and Bathsheba (1951)

Gregory Peck and Jayne Meadows in David and Bathsheba (1951)

Jayne Meadows and James Craig in Dark Delusion (1947)

Jayne Meadows, Steve Allen, and Louis Nye in The Tonight Show (1953)

Jayne Meadows and Vic Tayback in Fantasy Island (1977)

Michelle Pfeiffer, Bruce Willis, Red Buttons, Jayne Meadows, Tom Poston, and Betty White in The Story of Us (1999)

Steve Allen and wife Jayne Meadows mailing their tax forms early at a San Fernando Post Office

Jayne Meadows and Steve Allen in The New Steve Allen Show (1961)

Polly Bergen, Jackie Gleason, Jayne Meadows, Jayne Mansfield, Audrey Meadows, and Joyce Randolph at an event for The Honeymooners (1955)

"Comedy Awards: 14th Annual" Jayne Meadows and Steve Allen.

Jayne Meadows at an event for The Story of Us (1999)

Milton Berle's 90th Birthday Party Jayne Meadows & Steve Allen

Jayne Meadows, Robert Montgomery, and Audrey Totter in Lady in the Lake (1946)

Herbert Marshall, Jayne Meadows, Steve Allen, Cathy Crosby, Pamela Mason, Mickey Shaughnessy, Conway Twitty, and Walter Winchell in College Confidential (1960)

Herbert Marshall, Jayne Meadows, Steve Allen, Mickey Shaughnessy, Conway Twitty, Mamie Van Doren, and Walter Winchell in College Confidential (1960)

William Powell, Jayne Meadows, and Ralph Morgan in Song of the Thin Man (1947)

Herbert Marshall, Jayne Meadows, Steve Allen, Pamela Mason, Mickey Shaughnessy, Conway Twitty, Mamie Van Doren, and Walter Winchell in College Confidential (1960)

Jayne Meadows, Steve Allen, Rocky Marciano, and Stuart Randall in College Confidential (1960)

Jayne Meadows, Steve Allen, and Stuart Randall in College Confidential (1960)

Herbert Marshall, Jayne Meadows, Steve Allen, Mickey Shaughnessy, Mamie Van Doren, and Walter Winchell in College Confidential (1960)

One of four children (two older brothers, one younger sister) born to American missionaries, Jayne Meadows (née Jane Cotter) was born September 27, 1919, in China. The family returned to the US in the early 1930s wherein Jayne was forced to learn the English language, speaking Chinese and other foreign languages at the time before learning English. She settled in Sharon, Connecticut with her parents, Rev. Francis James Meadows Cotter (who was appointed rector of the town's Christ Church), and Ida Miller (Taylor) Cotter.

She developed an early interest in acting and studied at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. She made her Broadway debut with the comedy "Spring Again" (1941), followed by "Another Love Story" (1943), "The Odds on Mrs. Oakley" (1944), "Many Happy Returns" and "Kiss Them for Me" (1945). This led to a post-WWII, MGM contract in which her icy glare and imposing stance frequently made her the perfect manipulating "other woman" in such "B" heavy drama as Undercurrent (1946), Lady in the Lake (1946), Dark Delusion (1947), Enchantment (1948), The Fat Man (1951) and as Michal in the biblical film David and Bathsheba (1951). She occasionally was featured in lighter feature film fare as well, including Song of the Thin Man (1947) and The Luck of the Irish (1948).

Not satisfactorily moving up the credits ladder in films as she hoped, she sought work elsewhere in the early 1950's, especially in the new medium of TV. She became one of Hollywood's more glittery personalities on TV and variety programs, and a sparkling guest panelist on such popular TV game shows as "The Name's the Same, "Masquerade Party, "What's My Line," "To Tell the Truth" and "Password." At one point, she was a regular member of the celebrity panel on I've Got a Secret (1952).

Divorced from film and TV writer Milton Krims after six years, Jayne met her witty match when she married actor/comedian Steve Allen in 1954. They formed an extremely strong personal and professional relationship which would encompass stage ("Love Letters", in which they co-starred on and off for 11 years), film (College Confidential (1960), and especially TV (Meeting of Minds (1977)). Jayne supported Steve as a regular/guest on many of his comedy series ventures, including The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956), The New Steve Allen Show (1961), The Steve Allen Playhouse (1962) and The Steve Allen Comedy Hour (1967). They appeared as themselves in the film The Player (1992) they did not appear as themselves in the amusing TV movie Now You See It, Now You Don't (1968) and the all-star TV version of Alice in Wonderland (1985).

Jayne's solo work took a deliberate back seat. Usually playing elegant sophisticates, she cameoed in such films as the ribald comedy Norman... Is That You? (1976); the crime thriller Murder by Numbers (1989); as Billy Crystal's mother in the comedies City Slickers (1991) and City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994); and made an appearance in what would become her last feature film The Story of Us (1999).

Over a three-decade period, Jayne appeared in a number of TV movies, including James Dean (1976), Sex and the Married Woman (1977), Miss All-American Beauty (1982), A Masterpiece of Murder (1986) and Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon (1989). She also guested on numerous established programs as well -- "Here Comes the Bride," "Here's Lucy," "Adam-12," "Switch," "Hawaii 5-O," "Matt Houston," "Fantasy Island," "Murder, She Wrote," "The Love Boat," "St. Elsewhere," "The Bold and the Beautiful," "The Nanny" and "Diagnosis Murder." Steady roles on prime-time TV series would include a recurring part as Nurse Chambers on the medical program Medical Center (1969), as well as regular roles on the sitcoms It's Not Easy (1982) and High Society (1995), the latter for which she earned an Emmy nomination for "Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy."

Known for her infectious laugh and joie de vivre, Jayne's confidence grew to include writing stage plays, teleplays, books, and columns. For the most part, however, she was Allen's creative and dedicated business partner for 46 years until his death in 2000. Younger sister Audrey Meadows, of The Honeymooners (1955) TV fame, died in 1996.

Jayne Meadows Allen lived the rest of her life quietly, occasionally granting interviews, until her death on April 26, 2015 in Los Angeles, aged 95.

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