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IV CAMEOS: Jane Wyatt
Back in the ‘Heart of the Concrete’
“HE THINKS I’m absolutely
out of my mind,” said Jane Wy
att with a bright smile as she
sat in a plush midtown Hew
York hotel.
The Emmy award-winning
star, known to millions of view
ers for her long-running role of
Margaret Anderson in Father
Knows Best, was discussing the
reaction of her husband of 30
years, investment broker Edgar
B. Ward, when he learned re
cently about her job as narra
tor on ABC-TV’a new daytime
show, Confidential for Women.
“Since the program is New
York-based and will run from
2 to 2:30 pm. five times a
week,” she continued, “I’ll
spend Monday through Friday
in New York and commute
home to the west coast each
week-mid. My husband contends
that I’U be sound asleep every
Saturday.
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“IT WAS a lot tougher on him
when I was In the theater. That
Is the hardest row to hoe for a
man who isn’t an actor and is
married to an actress. In those
days Td take a nap at 5 p.m.,
get up and go to the theater
and give a performance. By the
time the curtain went down
about 11, I’d be all bright and
alive. After a day of normal
working hours, he'd be ready
for bed at 11 pm.”
According to the gracious, at
tractive matron, television and
movies are much easier on one’s
home life. “In those mediums,”
she said, “you get home eve
nings and week-ends. You may
have to study your lines, but
at least you’re home while
you’re doing tt w
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AS NARRATOR of Confiden
tial, which is a dramatized ex
ploration of the pressure and
problems confronting today’s
women, Miss Wyatt will intro
duce the program each day.
“The format is a week-long
play in five acta” she explained,
“on such subjects as love after
marriage, separation, divorce,
etc.”
Toward the end of each day’s
presentation, the actress will
interview Dr. Theodore Isaac
Rubin, psychiatrist and author,
on the subject matter drama
tized previously. He will offer
observations and solutions on
the problems.
“My questions will be ad
libbed to the doctor,” said Miss
Wyatt. “I know nothing about
psychiatry and havs a naive ap-
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of ABC-TV's Confidential for Wesson, discuss a program script.
proach to the subject. Perhaps
this will be of benefit to the
women who look in. In effect,
what it amounts to in general
for them is a free trip to a
psychiatrist without leaving
one’s own home.”
For fans of Miss Wyatt, her
appearances on Confidential
win come as a bonus. At 12:30
p.m. each day she is seen on the
ABC network in reruns of
Father Knows Best. “Bob Young
and I may have a spat on
Father she said, “that Is sim
ilar to one being shown on
Confidential that day. I hope
no one will be surprised if they
are resolved differently on the
two programs.
Miss Wyatt’s role on Confi
dential for Women is but one
of many that began when she
left Barnard College at 19 to
Join the apprentice school of
the Berkshire Playhouse at
Stockbridge, Mass. Following an
understudy assignment in the
Broadway production of Trade
Winds, she alternated between
the Playhouse end the New
York stage, where she appeared
with such stars as Charles
Laughton, Louis Calhera and
Osgood Perkins.
Called to Hollywood, she be*
came a star when she appeared
opposite Ronald Coleman In
Lost Horizon. This was followed
by roles in such films as Great
Expectations, Interlude, Task
Force, None But the Lonely
Heart and Never Too Late.
Her video role on Father
Knows Best for six years
brought further fame and an
Emmy award to her. “When I
got the part of Margaret An
derson,” she said smilingly, “1
was living right in the heart of
all this concrete in New York
City. When we realized that the
series might run on for quite
a while, we moved to the west
coast.”
Now, with the launching of
Confidential for Women, she’s
right back in the “heart of the
concrete”—well, at for
five each week.