Jane Rose

Rose was born in Spokane, Washington, the only child born to Dr. Charles L. Rose, a Spokane dentist, and Dr. Frances Eastman, a Spokane physician. Eastman"Charles L. Rose, Dentist, Expires; Ill Several Months From Cancer—His Family Noted for Long Lives; Family Lives Long; [https://www.newspapers.com/image/567207081/?clipping_id=128890935 Leaves Widow and Daughter"]. The Spokesman-Review. p. 6. Retrieved July 26, 2023. had a daughter, Angeline Kearny Lockhart,[https://www.newspapers.com/image/566184613/?clipping_id=128889375 "'63' Club Enjoys Merry Afternoon; Children Are Entertained"]. The Spokesman-Review. January 4, 1912. p. 2. Retrieved July 26, 2023. See also:

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHFL-GGK : 4 February 2021), Angeline Lockhart in entry for Charles Rose, 1920.
• [https://www.newspapers.com/image/562893574/?clipping_id=128889748 "Today's Society News; Fort Officers Will Be Hosts; Annual Hop for Officers of national Guard Unit Comes Friday; Angeline Lockhart Mother"]. Spokane Chronicle. March 21, 1927. p. 10.
• "Florida Marriages, 1837-1974", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FW4Q-CPL : 11 January 2020), Angeline Kearny Lockhart in entry for John W. Wolfenden, 1926. by a previous marriage.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/171390292/?clipping_id=128890724 "Lockhart-Eastman"]. Mower County Transcript. January 11, 1899. p. 3. Retrieved July 26, 2023. In her early years, Jane Rose participated in little theater.{{cite news |last1=Connor |first1=Harriet J. |title=Chroniscope |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/spokane-chronicle-jane-rose/128878157/ |access-date=July 26, 2023 |work=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=August 6, 1969 |page=25|via = Newspapers.com}} She was educated at Lewis and Clark High School, the University of Washington, and Columbia University.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/563580778/?clipping_id=128887855 "Jane Rose Here Today"]. Spokane Chronicle. December 24, 1935. p. 14. Retrieved July 26, 2023.

Rose appeared in the original Broadway productions of The Time of the Cuckoo (1952–53), Orpheus Descending (1957), and

The Gazebo (1958–59), as well as a revival of Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House (1959–60), in which she played Nurse Guinness.{{cite web| url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/jane-rose-76872|title=Jane Rose – Broadway Cast & Staff| website=Internet Broadway Database}} She also performed for the New York Shakespeare Festival in such productions as All's Well That Ends Well, Richard III, and Measure for Measure."

Her films included David Lean's Summertime (1955), with Katharine Hepburn, Flipper (1963), and I Walk the Line (1970), with Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld. Among her numerous TV credits were appearances on such shows as Robert Montgomery Presents, Car 54, Where Are You?, The Defenders, Route 66, All in the Family, Rhoda, Lou Grant, and Co-Ed Fever. In addition, she was featured on the daytime dramas Love of Life (in which she created the character of Sarah Dale), Dark Shadows, The Secret Storm, and Somerset.

In 1975, Rose was cast as Audrey Dexter, mother-in-law to Phyllis Lindstrom (Cloris Leachman), on Phyllis (1975–77). In 2005 – almost thirty years after Phyllis was cancelled - Rose was nominated for a TV Land Award as "Favorite Mother-in-Law".

Rose's last seen performance was as Mrs. Bulfinch in the ABC miniseries Roots: The Next Generations (1979).

Rose also worked with the New York Association for the Blind (she served eleven years as the Association's Director of Recreation), also taught acting, and was a pioneer in the use of drama as therapy for the blind.{{cite news| title=Jane Rose, 66, Actress On Stage, Screen, TV| newspaper=The New York Times | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/03/archives/jane-rose-66-actress-on-stage-screen-tv.html?_r=1| date=July 3, 1979| page=D13| access-date=January 21, 2022}}

She died of cancer on June 29, 1979, at her home in Studio City, California. She was 66.

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