Jacqueline deWit
Acting
Biography
Jacqueline deWit (September 26, 1912 – January 7, 1998) was an American film and TV character actress from Los Angeles who appeared in over two dozen films, including Spellbound (1945), The Snake Pit, The Damned Don't Cry!, Tea and Sympathy, All That Heaven Allows and Harper. She also appeared in the 1946 Abbott and Costello comedy Little Giant, as Bud Abbott's wife.
Born: September 26, 1912
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Known For
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.
Time Enough at Last
A henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war.
The Twilight Zone
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
The Happy Years
Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.
Arrest and Trial
Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern.
La Classe américaine
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
On the Isle of Samoa
After committing a robbery, a man is inspired to confess by a lovely native girl he meets on a small island.
Spellbound
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
All That Heaven Allows
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
Pocketful of Miracles
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Filmography
as Helen Bemis (archive footage)
as Handmaid (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Mattie
as Kate
as Mrs. Kronberg
as Mrs. Flynn
as Hannah Pyncheon, Gerald's Sister
as Mrs. Johnson (uncredited)
as Louise (Governor's Wife) (uncredited)
as Manager
as Agnes
as Helen Bemis
as Julia
as Princess
as Lilly Sears
as Edna
as Emmy
as Mercedes Fairfax
as Emmy
as Mona Plash
as Aunt Sarah Greeb
as Katharine Meade
as Harriet Hackett
as Greta Marsh
as Mrs. Potter
as Siri
as Rachel Brackett
as Mrs. Peabody
as Lisa Kramer
as Carrie's Sister Minnie
as Janice
as Miss Hamilton
as Myra Van Elson (uncredited)
as Mrs. Marguerite Leach
as Mrs. Arthur Vinson
as Mrs. Cameron
as Sandra
as Lisa Marcel (as Jacqueline DeWit)
as Trent's Secretary (uncredited)
as Mrs. Clipp
as Celia Sommerville
as Margaret Aubyn
as Fashion Show Saleslady
as Liliane Dumont
as Cissy Cruthers
as Lindsay
as Millicent Van Cleve
as Hazel Temple Morrison
as Guilia Forosini (uncredited)
as Nurse (uncredited)
as Kate Douglas
as Blossom Drake
as Marjorie Barnes
as Miss Fletcher, Morgan's Secretary
as Pat Cameron
as Whisper
as Emiline Bronson (as Jacqueline DeWit)
as Elsie
as Justine Bonner
as Wu Lien's Wife
as Helene (uncredited)
as Helen Bemis