Jane Keckley

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

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: William Desmond Taylor's Huck and Tom (1918); the 1936 version of Show Boat, starring Irene Dunne 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 Roy Rogers.

Keckley was married to, and divorced from, actor Roy Watson. She died on August 14, 1963.[better source needed ]

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