Jayne MeadowsFilmography

Homicide: Life on the Street: Shaggy Dog, City Goat

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: Honored at a testimonial by her fellow medical examiners, Julianna Cox (Laura Ballard) relates the curious tale of Mr. and Mrs. Cochran (Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows), who, during one of their violent arguments, may very well have spared their son the trouble of committing suicide -- by killing him Read More

Casino

Actors: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles, Alan King

Synopsis: The inner-workings of a corrupt Las Vegas casino are exposed in Martin Scorsese's story of crime and punishment. The film chronicles the lives and times of three characters: "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro), a bookmaking wizard; Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), a Mafia underboss and longtime best friend Read More

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

Actors: Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Jon Lovitz, Jack Palance, Patricia Wettig

Synopsis: Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal) returns in this sequel to the original City Slickers that attempts to recapture the first film's warmth and character comedy. Despite feeling re-invigorated when we last left him, Mitch again faces a few personal dilemmas: his radio station job is going nowhere and Read More

The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

City Slickers

Actors: Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, Patricia Wettig, Helen Slater

Synopsis: City Slickers blends sight gags, one-liners, and sincerity, with both humor and drama arising from the characters and their situations. Mitch (Billy Crystal) is a radio station sales executive who finds himself in the throes of a mid-life crisis; accompanied by two friends, Phil (Daniel Stern) and Read More

Murder by Numbers

Actors: Sam Behrens, Shari Belafonte

Synopsis: When a wealthy homosexual man (Wlad Cembrowicz) turns up missing, his sister (Debra Sandlund) convinces her ex-husband (Sam Behrens) to investigate the legion of suspects. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon

Actors: Hayley Mills, Barry Bostwick, Joy Creel, Leanna Creel, Monica Creel

Synopsis: In this entry in the Parent Trap series, the triplets, their newlywed father, his bride, and her twin head for Hawaii where mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Masterpiece of Murder

Actors: Don Ameche, Bob Hope

Synopsis: Bob Hope makes his first starring film appearance in 14 years in this made-for-TV movie. Hope stars as a seedy private eye, hoping to get one last good case before calling it quits. Don Ameche, a retired art thief reduced to working as a chauffeur, teams with his old friend Hope to solve the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder by Appointment Only

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) attends a cosmetics convention, where her nephew Grady (Michael Horton) has landed a job with supremely bitchy perfume manufacturer Lila Lee Amberson (Jayne Meadows). Also present is Liz Gordon (Ann Dusenberry), who had been one of Jessica's most promising writing Read More

Da Capo

Actors: Raimo Karppinen, Jan Soderblom, Tarmo Manni, Rea Mauranen, Per Oscarsson

Synopsis: Interwoven with scenes that are meant to grab attention by their stunning composition, this biographical look at Finland's violinist Arto Arsi is not so much a narration of his childhood and early years, as an attempt to artistically show what was happening inside his psyche during that time. Read More

Computability

The Mogul

Actors: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Gerritt Graham, Kevin McCarthy, Jayne Meadows

Synopsis: Made for cable television, The Ratings Game was directed by Danny DeVito, who co-starred in the film with his wife Rhea Perlman. DeVito plays the owner of a New Jersey trucking firm who yearns for a televison career. He offers several TV-series ideas to a receptive network programming head. On the Read More

Alice in Wonderland

Actors: Donald O'Connor

Synopsis: This 1982 made-for-TV version of the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland features an all-star cast. Such celebrities as Donald O'Connor, Maureen Stapleton and Eve Arden struggle to perform while buried under mounds of makeup and tons of eccentric costuming as Carroll's alternate-world Read More

Miss All-American Beauty

Actors: Diane Lane

Synopsis: This TV-movie features a Texas beauty-queen contestant (Diane Lane) who is trying to earn money for college. A pianist, she learns a bit of self-respect during the competition. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Meeting of Minds: Season 04

The Gossip Columnist

Actors: Steve Allen, Jim Backus, Jack Carter, Jayne Meadows, Martha Raye, Sylvia Sidney, Rip Taylor, Lyle Waggoner, Betty White, Dick Sargent

Synopsis: The Gossip Columnist is a rare one-part offering from Operation Prime Time, the TV-syndication service responsible for such miniseries as The Kent Family Chronicles. Fourth-billed Kim Cattrall plays the title character, journalist Dina Moran. Instructed by her boss (Dick Sargent) to take over the Read More

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Ben Vereen

Synopsis: Tenspeed and Brown Shoe was a "cult" comedy adventure series created by Stephen J. Cannell, which ran from January to June of 1980. Ben Vereen played E. L. "Tenspeed" Turner, a silver tongued African-American con artist. Jeff Goldblum costarred as staid stockbroker Lionel Whitney, whom Tenspeed Read More

Meeting of Minds: Cleopatra/Thomas Paine/Theodore Roosevelt/Thomas Aquinas, Part 1

Sex and the Married Woman

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Jayne Meadows

Synopsis: Sex and the Married Woman stars Joanna Pettet as a housewife and Barry Newman as her liberal-minded husband. Encouraging his wife to find her "inner self," Newman has no notion that Pettet will translate this invitation into writing a book based on the sex habits of her friends and neighbors. The Read More

Norman Is That You?

Actors: Redd Foxx, Pearl Bailey, Dennis Dugan, Mike Warren, Tamara Dobson

Synopsis: After wife Beatrice (Pearl Bailey) runs off to Mexico, a despondent Ben Chambers (Redd Foxx) travels to California to visit his son, Norman (Michael Warren). To Ben's dismay, Norman admits that he's gay -- and that his lover is a white man. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

James Dean: A Legend in His Own Time

Synopsis: This made-for-TV biography, based on the memoirs of onetime James Dean roommate William Bast, stars Stephen McHattie in the title role of the Hollywood rebel. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Adam-12: Harbor Division

Synopsis: Season Six of Adam-12 begins with the first of several "remote" assigments for LAPD mobile officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy ({$Martin Milner]). On this occasion, the two cops are assigned to the city's harbor and waterfront, where they run up against a credit-card forger and a Read More

Now You See It, Now You Don't

The Hollywood Palace

Now You See It, Now You Don't

Synopsis: In his only starring made-for-TV movie, comedian Jonathan Winters plays an art expert engaged by an insurance company. Winters is assigned to protect a valuable Rembrandt, on loan from the Louvre to a major New York gallery. The Rembrandt disappears and passes through several hands (including the Read More

College Confidential

Actors: Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows

Synopsis: An expose on campus sex provides the basis of this bizarre film made in 1960. A college professor is taking the survey which focuses upon the sexual habits of the students. Unfortunately, some people object and bring him up on charges of indecency. The film climaxes with his trial. ~ Sandra Read More

It Happened to Jane

Actors: Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Forrest, Teddy Rooney

Synopsis: Doris Day stars in a true-to-type performance as Jane Osgood, a spunky, pretty, wronged widow with two children. She manages her own lobster business, and the railroad has just trashed a shipment, killing them off before they could ever be properly boiled to death for someone's dinner. Jane Read More

Suspense

David and Bathsheba

Actors: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore, James Robertson Justice

Synopsis: David and Bathsheba is a respectable, slightly stodgy cinematic adaptation of the Old Testament story. King David (Gregory Peck), much beloved by his subjects and a war hero of long standing, falls victim to the sins of the flesh when he falls in love with Bathsheba (Susan Hayward), the wife of Read More

The Fat Man

Actors: Jack Smart, Julie London, Rock Hudson, Clinton Sundberg, Jayne Meadows

Synopsis: The popular radio detective series The Fat Man was brought to the screen in 1951, with the series' original star J. Scott Smart retained in the title role. Smart plays porcine sleuth Brad Runyon, who tackles the mystery surrounding the murder of a Los Angeles dentist. With the assistance of Read More

The Luck of the Irish

Actors: Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Cecil Kellaway, Lee J. Cobb, James Todd

Synopsis: A semi-fantasy with sociological overtones, The Luck of the Irish stars Tyrone Power as an American journalist named Stephen Fitzgerald visiting the home of his ancestors in Ireland. Power encounters a jolly old man (Cecil Kellaway) who claims to be a leprechaun -- and proves it to the Read More

Enchantment

Actors: David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes, Farley Granger, Jayne Meadows

Synopsis: Most of the story in this five-hanky British melodrama takes place over a 50 year period within a single London home, 99 Wiltshire Place, the birth place of a noted general who has not been back since he was a young man and had a terrible wrenching fight with his sister over his love for their Read More

Dark Delusion

Actors: Warner Anderson, Art Baker, Lionel Barrymore, Marie Blake, Lucille Bremer

Synopsis: After 15 entries, MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series came to a quiet end with Dark Delusion. Although Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), crusty chief surgeon at Blair General Hospital, is officially the leading character, most of the footage is devoted to Gillespie's outspoken protégé, Dr. Tommy Read More

Song of the Thin Man

Actors: Leon Ames, Warner Anderson, William Bishop, Bruce Cowling, Bess Flowers

Synopsis: In the sixth and final Thin Man whodunit, Nick (William Powell) and Nora Charles (Myrna Loy) look into the mysterious killing of bandleader Tommy Drake (Phillip Reed). The police quickly hone in on the owner of a gambling ship, Phil Brant (Bruce Cowling), who was about to lose Drake's band to a Read More

Undercurrent

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Marjorie Main

Synopsis: A change of pace for both director Vincente Minnelli and star Katharine Hepburn, this taut drama features the latter as Ann Hamilton, the daughter of a scientist (Edmund Gwenn), who after a whirlwind romance marries handsome but slightly mysterious inventor turned businessman Alan Garroway (Robert Read More

Lady in the Lake

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames

Synopsis: Robert Montgomery is the director and star of the film noir mystery Lady in the Lake, adapted for the screen by source novelist Raymond Chandler. Montgomery plays detective Philip Marlowe, a private eye who just wants to publish his own crime stories. Kingsby Publications editor Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter Read More