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cbf816 — 19 years ago(October 22, 2006 04:34 PM)

Jane Wyatt 'Father Knows Best' mother dead at 96
(CNN) Actress Jane Wyatt, the prototypical housewife and mother in the
television series "Father Knows Best," has died at age 96, her spokeswoman told
CNN Sunday.
Wyatt died Friday of natural causes in her sleep at her house in Bel Air,
Calif., said Meg McDonald, Wyatt's goddaughter and publicist.
A spokesman for Gates Kingsley & Gates Funeral Home in Santa Monica
confirmed the death.
Before taking her role in the television series, Wyatt had already
established herself as a television pioneer, serving as host of the "Bell
Telephone Hour."
But it was her co-starring role with Robert Young on "Father Knows Best"
that catapulted her to stardom and led her to become the first consecutive
winner of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Emmy Award.
In the late 1960s, she appeared in an episode of "Star Trek" as Spock's
mother, a role she reprised in 1986 in "The Voyage Home," a Star Trek movie.
Born August 12, 1910 to an investment banker and a drama critic, Wyatt
attended Barnard College and made her Broadway debut as an understudy at 19.
She played roles that included inginue and leading lady in about 50
plays, inc5b4luding "Autumn Garden" with Fredric March.
In 1934, Universal hired her and moved her to Hollywood. Over the
following 30 years, she appeared in 30 films and a number of plays, often in
the role of the understanding wife.
She acted in "Great Expectations" (1934); "Lost Horizon" (1937); "None
but the Lonely Heart (1944); "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947); "Task Force"; and
"The Voyage Home" (1986).
After World War II, President Roosevelt asked Wyatt to help host a
performance in the United States of the Bolshoi. That led to her being
blacklisted by Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities
Committee in the early 1950s, McDonald said.
In 1937, Wyatt married investor/inventor Edgar Bethune Ward, who died in
2000.
Wyatt is survived by her sons Christopher and Michael Ward, three
grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

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Very thoughtful and accurate response. I appreciate the factual precision.

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After World War II, President Roosevelt asked Wyatt to help host a
performance in the United States of the Bolshoi. That led to her being
blacklisted by Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities
Committee in the early 1950s, McDonald said]
If this was in the original CNN post it's gone now. The only one way Roosevelt could have asked for anything after WWII would have been through a medium. He did not survive the war.
McCarthy didn't blacklist anyone, especially Hollywood. He was investigating the government and the army. The only ones blacklisting were the people who ran the networks and the studios.
That paragraph is poorly written.

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