http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/27/jayne-meadows-dead-actress-steve-allen-widow_n_7157664.html 95 years old. What a great life!
Somewhere in my collection of 78 rpm's...I have a recording of Japanese Rhumba featuring vocals by Jayne and Audrey Meadows.
From a book called "TV Sirens", published back in '87.... "If you could harness the fierceness of the Meadows sisters (Jayne and Audrey), you could do away with nuclear power. Jayne's Big Freakout Scene in the film noir curio "Lady In The Lake" was one of the highpoints of high 1940's histrionics. Jayne is a Sitcom Princess by virtue of "Meeting of the Minds", an unintentionally hilarious series in which ham-fisted actors posing as historical figures sit around and shoot the breeze. There's something mind-boggingly silly about Jayne done up as Cleopatra chatting up Teddy Roosevelt. But cosmetic excess has always been the source of Jayne's humor. Her riotous turn as a Mary Kay-ish tycoon on "Murder, She Wrote" showed that Meadows Madness will live as long as there's TV."
