Jane Keckley (September 10, 1876 – August 14, 1963) was an American actress of the silent and

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Biography

Keckley was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and went to school there and in Georgia. Before she acted in films, Keckley performed in stock theater and in vaudeville. Keckley began her film career in one- and two-reel Westerns in 1911. Her first feature film was 1915's ''The Circular Staircase'' (under the name Jane Watson). In her twenty-five year career, she would appear in over 90 films, as well as dozens of shorts. She would appear as a supporting actress in such films as:

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'' (1918); the 1936 version of ''

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and Allan Jones; and '' Magnificent Obsession'' (1935), starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor. She was under contract to Paramount in the late 1930s and early 1940s, where she appeared in her final film, '' South of Santa Fe'' (1942), starring

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. Keckley was married to, and divorced from, actor Roy Watson. She died on August 14, 1963.

Filmography

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The Circular Staircase ''The Circular Staircase'' is a mystery novel by American writer Mary Roberts Rinehart. The story follows dowager Rachel Innes as she thwarts a series of strange crimes at a summer house she has rented with her niece and nephew. The novel was Ri ...

'' (1915) *'' Redeeming Love'' (1916) *'' The Parson of Panamint'' (1916) *'' Molly Entangled'' (1917) *'' Huck and Tom; or, the Further Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1918) *''

A Petticoat Pilot ''A Petticoat Pilot'' is a lost 1918 American comedy silent film directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and written by Joseph C. Lincoln and Gardner Hunting. The film stars Vivian Martin, Theodore Roberts, James Neill, Harrison Ford, Bert Hadley and ...

'' (1918) * ''

Sauce for the Goose ''Sauce for the Goose'' is a 1918 American silent comedy film directed by Walter Edwards and starring Constance Talmadge, Harrison Ford, and Vera Doria.Basinger p. 163 Cast * Constance Talmadge as Kitty Constable * Harrison Ford as John Const ...

'' (1918) *''

The Girl of My Dreams ''The Girl of My Dreams'' is a musical in two acts with music by Karl Hoschna, lyrics by Otto Harbach, and a book by Harbach and Wilbur Nesbit. It premiered at Broadway's Criterion Theatre on August 7, 1911. It ran for 40 performances, closing ...

'' (1918) *''

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'' (1919) *'' The Third Kiss'' (1919) *'' The Soul of Youth'' (1920) *''

Sweet Lavender ''Sweet Lavender'' is a play in three acts by Arthur Wing Pinero, first performed in 1888. The sentimental and gently humorous story concerns the romance of Lavender Rolt and Clement Hale, and the complications impeding the course of true love. ...

'' (1920) *'' Everything for Sale'' (1921) *'' Sacred and Profane Love'' (1921) *'' A Virginia Courtship'' (1921) *''

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'' (1922) *'' Are You a Failure?'' (1923) * '' Just Like a Woman'' (1923) *'' Only 38'' (1923) *'' The Deadwood Coach'' (1924) *'' Fair Week'' (1924) *'' The Hill Billy'' (1924) *''

The Mile-a-Minute Man ''The Mile-a-Minute Man'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Jack Nelson and starring William Fairbanks, Virginia Brown Faire, and George Periolat. It was produced by the independent Gotham Pictures. The plot revolves around ...

'' (1926) *'' Aflame in the Sky'' (1927) *'' The Angel of Broadway'' (1927) *'' The Country Doctor'' (1927) *'' The King of Kings'' (1927) *'' The Lady in Ermine'' (1927) *''

Craig's Wife ''Craig's Wife'' is a 1925 play written by American playwright George Kelly. It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and has been adapted for three feature films. Production ''Craig's Wife'' premiered on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre on ...

'' (1928) *''

Harold Teen ''Harold Teen'' is a discontinued, long-running American comic strip written and drawn by Carl Ed (pronounced "eed"). Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson may have suggested and certainly approved the strip's concept, loosely based on Booth Tarkin ...

'' (1928) *'' The Masked Angel'' (1928) *'' Object: Alimony'' (1928) *'' On to Reno'' (1928) *'' Road House'' (1928) *'' Walking Back'' (1928) *''

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'' (1929) * ''

Noisy Neighbors ''Noisy Neighbors'' is a 1929 American sound part-talkie comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Eddie Quillan, Alberta Vaughn and Jane Keckley. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features ...

'' (1929) *'' The Godless Girl'' (1929) *''

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'' (1930) *''

Hide-Out ''Hide-Out'' is a 1934 American comedy, crime, drama, romance film produced by MGM in 1934. Robert Montgomery (actor), Robert Montgomery and Maureen O'Sullivan star, with Edward Arnold (actor), Edward Arnold and Elizabeth Patterson (actress), E ...

'' (1930) *''

The Naughty Flirt ''The Naughty Flirt'' is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Edward Cline and starring Alice White, Paul Page and Myrna Loy. Plot Attorney Alan Ward (Paul Page) is fed up with the reckless behavior of spoiled heiress Kay ...

'' (1931) *''

Dance Hall Hostess ''Dance Hall Hostess'' is a 1933 American drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Helen Chandler, Jason Robards Sr. and Alberta Vaughn.Fetrow p.135 Plot Cast * Helen Chandler as Nora Marsh * Jason Robards Sr. as Jerry Raymond * E ...

'' (1933) *'' Curtain at Eight'' (1933) *'' Murder on the Campus'' (1933) *''

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'' (1933) *'' Notorious but Nice'' (1933) *'' Strange People'' (1933) *'' The World Accuses'' (1934) *'' The Quitter'' (1934) *'' One in a Million'' (1934) *'' Stolen Sweets'' (1934) *''

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'' (1934) *'' The Painted Veil'' (1934) *''

I Give My Love ''I Give My Love'' is a 1934 American drama film directed by Karl Freund and written by Doris Anderson and Milton Krims. The film stars Paul Lukas, Wynne Gibson, Eric Linden, Anita Louise, John Darrow and Dorothy Appleby. The film was rel ...

'' (1934) *''

Ruggles of Red Gap ''Ruggles of Red Gap'' is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Leo McCarey and starring: Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles and ZaSu Pitts and featuring Roland Young and Leila Hyams. It was based on the best-selling 1915 nove ...

'' (1935) *'' A Shot in the Dark'' (1935) *''

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'' (1935) *'' The Tonto Kid'' (1935) *''

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'' (1935) *''

Diamond Jim ''Diamond Jim'' is a 1935 biographical film based on the published biography '' Diamond Jim Brady'' by Parker Morell. It follows the life of legendary entrepreneur James Buchanan Brady, including his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell, a ...

'' (1935) *''

'' (1936) *''

Paddy O'Day ''Paddy O'Day'' is a 1936 American comedy drama film directed by Lewis Seiler and released by 20th Century Fox. It stars Jane Withers, Pinky Tomlin, and Rita Hayworth (credited as Rita Cansino). The story follows the adventures of a plucky Iris ...

'' (1936) *'' The Bridge of Sighs'' (1936) *'' Roarin' Lead'' (1936) *''

And Sudden Death ''And Sudden Death'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by Charles Barton and written by Joseph Moncure March. The film stars Randolph Scott, Frances Drake, and Tom Brown; with supporting actors Billy Lee, Fuzzy Knight, Terry Walker and ...

'' (1936) *''

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'' (1936) *'' Girl of the Ozarks'' (1936) *''

Theodora Goes Wild ''Theodora Goes Wild'' is a 1936 American screwball comedy film that tells the story of the residents in a small town who are incensed by a risqué novel, unaware that the book was written under a pseudonym by a member of the town's leading fami ...

'' (1936) *''

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'' (1936) *'' Gentle Julia'' (1936) *'' Magnificent Obsession'' (1936) *''

Next Time We Love ''Next Time We Love'' is a 1936 American melodrama film directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Ray Milland. The adapted screenplay was by Melville Baker, with an uncredited Preston Sturges and Doris An ...

'' (1936) *''

Laughing at Trouble ''Laughing at Trouble'' is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Frank R. Strayer and written by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan. The film stars Jane Darwell, Brook Byron, Allan Lane, Sara Haden, Lois Wilson, and Margaret Hamilton. The film w ...

'' (1936) *''

Souls at Sea ''Souls at Sea'' is a 1937 American historical adventure film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Gary Cooper and George Raft. Based on a story by Ted Lesser, the film is about a first mate on a slave ship who frees the slaves on the ship aft ...

'' (1937) *''

The Plainsman ''The Plainsman'' is a 1936 American Western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. The film presents a highly fictionalized account of the adventures and relationships between Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity J ...

'' (1937) *'' That I May Live'' (1937) *'' Dangerous Holiday'' (1937) *''

Gunsmoke Ranch ''Gunsmoke Ranch'' is a 1937 American Western " Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by Joseph Kane. Plot Cast * Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke *Ray "Crash" Corrigan as Tucson Smith *Max Terhune as Lullaby Joslin *Kenneth Harlan as Phineas ...

'' (1937) *'' The Buccaneer'' (1938) *''

Road Demon ''Road Demon'' is a 1938 American crime drama film directed by Otto Brower and starring Henry Arthur, Joan Valerie, and Henry Armetta. Footage from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was included along with driver accidents. It is the second relea ...

'' (1938) *''

Tom Sawyer, Detective ''Tom Sawyer, Detective'' is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876), ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1885), and '' Tom Sawyer Abroad'' (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder ...

'' (1938) *'' Scandal Street'' (1938) *'' Lightning Carson Rides Again'' (1938) *'' In Old Montana'' (1939) *'' Romance of the Redwoods'' (1939) *''

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'' (1939) *''

Persons in Hiding ''Persons in Hiding'' is a 1939 American crime film directed by Louis King and written by William R. Lipman and Horace McCoy. The film stars Lynne Overman, Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish, William "Bill" Henry, Helen Twelvetrees and William F ...

'' (1939) *''

The Doctor Takes a Wife ''The Doctor Takes a Wife'' is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner, Gail Patrick and Edmund Gwenn. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Young ...

'' (1940) (uncredited) *''

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'' (1941) *''

Buy Me That Town ''Buy Me That Town'' is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Eugene Forde and written by Murray Boltinoff, Harry A. Gourfair, Gordon Kahn and Martin Rackin. The film stars Lloyd Nolan, Constance Moore, Albert Dekker, Sheldon Leonard, Barbara J ...

'' (1941) *'' Dude Cowboy'' (1941) *''

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'' (1941) *''

There's Magic in Music ''The Hard-Boiled Canary'' is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by Andrew L. Stone and written by Robert Lively (screenwriter), Robert Lively and Andrew L. Stone. It was later reissued as ''There's Magic in Music''. The film stars All ...

'' (1941) *'' Tight Shoes'' (1941) *'' Riding the Wind'' (1942) *'' South of Santa Fe'' (1942)

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autographed portrait, 1917
archived) {{DEFAULTSORT:Keckley, Jane American film actresses American silent film actresses Actresses from Charleston, South Carolina 1876 births 1963 deaths 20th-century American actresses Western (genre) film actresses American stage actresses American vaudeville performers