Jayne Meadows Net Worth

Jayne Meadows's Quotes

• I have this tremendous energy. I just loved and love life. I love it today. I never want to die.

Interesting Facts about Jayne Meadows

1. In 1991, she received the Women's International Center Living Legacy Award.
2. She was the older sister of actress Audrey Meadows.
3. In 1988, she received the "America Book Award".
4. In 1965, Jayne was attending college to study Chinese language.
5. Her father was Francis Meadows Cotter, an Episcopal missionary. Her mother's name was Ida Miller Taylor.
6. Her first language was Chinese.
7. She was a lifelong staunch conservative Republican and anti-communist.
8. She quietly lived out her retirement in Encino, California until her death in April 2015.
9. Attended an event at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre marking the 50th anniversary of the untimely passing of actor Tyrone Power. Four of his films were screened: Love Is News (1937), The Mark of Zorro (1940), The Razor's Edge (1946) and Nightmare Alley (1947). Also in attendance were his children, Tyrone Power Jr., Taryn Power and Romina Power, and other actors who have worked with him, including Coleen Gray, Piper Laurie and Terry Moore. [November 2008]
10. She is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, California, beside her beloved husband, Steve Allen.
11. Longtime friend of Julie London.
12. When her husband, Steve Allen, asked her to play Cleopatra in his television series Meeting of the Minds, she refused. After he told her that if she didn't accept the part he didn't know how their marriage could continue, she agreed to do it.
13. Cecil B. DeMille chose her for the role of Moses' adoptive mother, Bithiah, in his film The Ten Commandments (1956) because he thought she was "very beautiful and very warm." She turned it down because she did not want to commute to Hollywood and be away from her husband (they lived in New York City). The part went to Nina Foch.
14. Alumna of Stella Adler Studio of Acting.