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In the late 1940s and early 1950s Jane Wyman was such a potent box office draw that audiences queued around the block for melodramatic "Wyman weepies" such as Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows and Miracle in the Rain. She was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar three times, and won the award in 1949 for her role as a deaf mute who is raped and made pregnant by a bully in Johnny Belinda.
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Jane Wyman was a former dancer and bit-part player, who graduated from “dumb blonde” roles to portray a series of characters who faced everything life could throw at them with courage and resilience. She won an Oscar for her performance as a young deaf-mute woman who is abused and raped in Johnny Belinda (1948).
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Jane Wyman of television's "Falcon Crest" attends a CBS party in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Jan. 14, 1990. Wyman, an Academy Award winner for her performance as the deaf rape victim in "Johnny Belinda," star of the long-running TV series "Falcon Crest" and Ronald Reagan's first wife, died Monday morning, Sept. 10, 2007, at 93. (AP Photo/Julie Markes)
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After her marriage to Reagan, Jane Wyman gained critical acclaim for her role as Ray Milland's long-suffering wife in The Lost Weekend (1945). The following year, she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Ma Baxter in The Yearling (1946, with Gregory Peck), before winning the prize in 1949 for her role in Johnny Belinda.
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In 1952 Wyman had two contrasting box-office hits. The first was Frank Capra's musical comedy, Here Comes the Groom, in which Wyman was teamed with her singing idol, Bing Crosby. The pair had relaxed fun with a novelty number, "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening", which Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer had written for an unrealised Betty Hutton musical based on the life of Mabel Normand. It was a complicated production number that took the couple through several sets as they sang, and Capra decided to record the song live, with tiny radios in the stars' ears so that they could hear the orchestra. The song won an Oscar, the stars' recording was a big hit, and Decca signed Wyman to a recording contract. Her co-star Franchot Tone said, 'Everybody got caught up in the fun Bing and Jane were obviously having together.'
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Turner Classic Movies will pay tribute to the late Jane Wyman on Friday with telecasts of seven of her films, including Johnny Belinda and The Lost Weekend. The marathon starts at 6 am/ET.... Lisa Rinna invites gals to show "their girls" some love by logging onto PlaytexFits.com, a "virtual playground for bras and boobs".... Barbara Walters premieres a weekly Sirius Satellite Radio call-in show Monday at 6 pm (Channel 102).... This year's Kennedy Center Honors, airing Dec. 26 on CBS, will salute the careers of Steve Martin, Diana Ross, Martin Scorsese, Brian Wilson and pianist Leon Fleisher.... DVD releases have been set for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Oct.
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