An Academy Award winner for “Johnny Belinda” (1948), Jane Wyman overcame a difficult childhood to become one of the most respected dramatic actresses of the late ‘40s and early ‘50s. She later received two Emmy nominations for her own television anthology series in the late Fifties, but went into semi-retirement until the early 1980s, when she was top-billed as the vicious matriarch Angela Channing in the popular primetime soap “Falcon Crest” (CBS, 1981-1990), which earned her a Golden Globe. Wyman was also noted for her marriage to future U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 1940-48 and during
