Jane Wyman was an Academy Award-winning actress who very nearly landed the role of First Lady of the United States. For real! In the span of her six-decade-long career, she went from struggling to ingénue to full-fledged diva. It wasn’t all smooth sailing though—there were more than a few failed marriages and famous feuds all along the way.
1. She Was A “Misery-ian”
Sarah Jane Mayfield (AKA Jane Wyman) had a pretty idyllic middle-class childhood. She was born in 1917 in St. Joseph, Missouri to a laborer father and office assistant mother. But while things looked good from the outside of her Tudor-style home, her life took an unexpected and dramatic turn when she was just four.
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