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Her bio from IMDB.com: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943553/bio Birth name Jane Waddington Wyatt Mini biography Born in Campgaw, New Jersey, Jane Waddington Wyatt came from a New York family of social distinction (her father was a Wall Street investment banker and her mother was a drama critic). Jane was raised from the age of three months in New York City, attended the fashionable Chapin School and later Barnard College. After two years of college, she left to join the apprentice school of the Berkshire Playhouse at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where for six months she played a varied assortment of roles. One of her first jobs on Broadway was as understudy to Rose Hobart in a production of "Trade Winds"--a career move that cost her her slot on the New York Social Register. Wyatt made the transition from stage to screen and was placed under contract at Universal, where she made her film debut in director James Whale's One More River (1934). She went back and forth between Universal and Broadway (and co-starred in Frank Capra's Columbia film Lost Horizon (1937) on loan out from Universal). In the 1950s, she co-starred with Robert Young in "Father Knows Best" (1954), the classic TV sitcom chronicling the life and times of the Anderson family in the Midwestern town of Springfield. IMDb mini-biography by Tom Weaver Spouse Edgar Bethune Ward (9 November 1935 - 8 November 2000) (his death) 2 children Trivia She opposed the House Un-American Affairs Committee (H.U.A.C.) Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1986. Jane Wyatt is a devout Catholic, whose late husband died on the day before what would have been their 65th wedding anniversary. In Lost Horizon (1937), she worked for director Frank Capra. In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), the first assistant director was Frank Capra III. Sons Christopher, who has three children, and Michael, who is six years younger and a pianist. She is directly descended, on her mother's side, from the van Renssalaer family, one of the earliest Dutch families to settle in the Colonies in the 1500s, and which at one time owned most of what is now New York City. Renssalaer County in upstate New York is named after them.

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Thank you for the bio.

I always thought she was a true lady, an excellent role model, despite all the TV-family-bashing that came in later years. You could tell she came from a classy family; it was like a perfume coming from within her.