Jane Blyler

born: 02 or 03 January 1897
Tarentum, Pennsylvania,
United States of America
died: 27 August 1931
Christian Science Sanatorium,
San Francisco, California,
United States of America
(cerebral hemorrhage, apoplexy, age 34)

American actress from silent films. Her husband James Blyler appeared with her in some of her films with Harold Lloyd. After leaving films, as a song and dance and acting team, they were very successful in vaudeville. They married in NYC in 1920. After her husband's 1924 death, she was earning (1926) $1,000 per week as a single act in vaudeville. In 1927, she married aviator/actor/musician, Ron Wilson (1900-1969). After suffering a stroke at their home (1931), she was taken to the exclusive Christian Science Hospital where she died 25 days later.
Some sources give her death date as August 28th but the San Francisco funeral home record (similar to a death certificate) says August 27th. Absent a birth record or contemporary newspaper birth announcement, her birth information comes from a 1925 ship's passenger manifest and the funeral home death record. Along with the 1900 and 1910 US Census's. they give Pennsylvania as her birthplace. The 1931 death record gives a birthday of January 2nd and the 1925 passenger manifest says January 3rd (Tarentum, PA). Most sources incorrectly say she was born in Kentucky.
Real name: Martha Jane Greene
Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

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1918
Hit Him Again
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1918
A Gasoline Wedding
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1918
Look Pleasant, Please
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1918
Here Come The Girls
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1918
On The Jump
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1918
Follow The Crowd
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1918
Pipe The Whiskers
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1918
It's A Wild Life
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1918
Hey There!
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1918
Kicked Out
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1918
The Non-Stop Kid
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1918
Two-Gun Gussie
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1918
Fireman, Save My Child
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1918
Sic 'Em Towser
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1918
Somewhere In Turkey
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1918
Are Crooks Dishonest?
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1918
An Ozark Romance
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Acknowledgements:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVMQ-VZR (1920 Census, line 87)
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCFF-ZX6 (1930 Census, line 87)
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKS9-K13Z (CA Death Index #50829)
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKS9-K1NQ (CA Death Index #50829)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171896790 (Find a Grave)
http://www.jazzage1920s.com/janegreen/janegreen.php (Jazz Age 1920s)
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/confetta/tags/1920smusic/
http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/sayre/id/3592/rec/2089 (University of Washington)
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/13151066:7602 (IN 1900 Census: born PA Jan 1897)
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/186113562:7884 (LA 1910 Census: born PA c. 1897)
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/7891714:61406 (NYC marriage to James B. Blyler 1920)
Ancestry.com NY Arriving Passenger Lists 1820-1957 Jane Greene born Farentum (sic), PA; Jan 3, 1897)
https://fultonhistory.com ("Variety" 1926 Mar 17 p.46; earns $1,000 per week)
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2118/images/B020268-00142?pId=258230 (1931 SFO Funeral Records)
https://calisphere.org/item/3d7e256fe0a716ad7f27552cb35e73d8/ (SFO Christian Science Hospital)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124456740/ronald-f-wilson (grave of 2nd husband)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6549131/lucinda-greene (grave of Mom)
Jesse Brisson (research and help)
Jim Jarvis (research and help)

This page was last updated on: 29 October 2021