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Jane Wyman: Roles
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Wyman adopted her professional name when she signed a contract with Warner Bros. in 1936 for $65 per week. By then, she had appeared in more than a dozen films without credit or identified as Sara Jane Fulks. Often cast as a fast-talking sidekick, Wyman's name appeared on screen for the first time for her role as a hatcheck girl in the 1937 ``Smart Blonde,'' the first in a series of girl reporter films.
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Wyman's career began with a number of small, inconsequential and frequently blonde roles and by 1936 she had landed a contract with Warner Bros. The studio had difficulty casting her ... and she mostly found herself in a variety of lead and second-lead roles in several B-grade comedies and musicals.
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After several years of chorus-girl roles and bit parts, Wyman signed a $60-a-week contract with the Warner Brothers studio in 1936. Dropping Sarah, she took Jane Wyman as her professional name. She then embarked on a number of B-movie comedies, typically playing the fast-talking blond sidekick.
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In 1939, Wyman was cast in another starring role, 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.
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Initially typecast as a perky, sometimes flaky or tart-tongued blonde, Wyman toiled for a decade in mostly B-movie fare and supporting roles in bigger films. She gained notice in 1945 for her role as the girlfriend of a chronic alcoholic in Billy Wilder's drama "The Lost Weekend."
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