Jayne Meadows Autographs
Jayne Meadows (born Jane Cotter; September 27, 1919 – April 26, 2015) was an American stage, film and television actress, as well as an author and lecturer. She was nominated for three Emmy Awards during her career and was the elder sister of actress, banker, and memoirist Audrey Meadows as well as the wife of original Tonight Show host Steve Allen.
Meadows was born Jane Cotter in 1919, in Wuchang, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, the elder daughter of American Episcopal missionary parents, the Rev. Francis James Meadows Cotter and his wife, the former Ida Miller Taylor, who had married in 1915. Her younger sister was actress Audrey Meadows. She also had two older brothers. In the early 1930s, the family settled in Sharon, Connecticut, where her father had been appointed rector of Christ Church. Both she and her sister Audrey became residents of The Rehearsal Club in NYC when they struck out to seek their careers.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed Jane Cotter to a movie contract in 1944, giving her the professional name Jayne Meadows. ("Meadows" was a paternal family name.) She specialized in playing intense character roles as opposed to ingenues. Her most famous movies include: Undercurrent (with Katharine Hepburn), Song of the Thin Man (with William Powell and Myrna Loy), David and Bathsheba (with Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, and Raymond Massey), Lady in the Lake (with Robert Montgomery and Audrey Totter), and Enchantment (with David Niven and Teresa Wright). Louella Parsons presented Meadows with the Cosmopolitan Award for Finest Dramatic Performance of 1949, for Enchantment.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Jayne Meadows (JAYNE MEADOWS - CONTRACT SIGNED 08/27/1952) was sold in March 2026 for $307.99 while the cheapest item (Jayne Meadows Vintage Actress Signed 3x5 Card C0734) found a new owner for $0.75 in April 2011. The month with the most items sold (3) was March 2025 with an average selling price of $25.00 for an autographed item of Jayne Meadows. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2025 with $40.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $1.82 was January 2021. In average, an autographed item from Jayne Meadows is worth $12.99.
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