Jane Rose

Jane Phin Lisa Rose (February 7, 1913 – June 29, 1979) was an American character actress, perhaps best remembered as Audrey Dexter, the gently befuddled mother-in-law of Phyllis Lindstrom on the CBS sitcom Phyllis (1975–1977). Early life Born in Spokane, Washington, Rose was the only child born to Dr. Charles L. Rose and Dr. Frances Eastman Rose, who also had a daughter, Angeline Kearny Lockhart, from Dr. Eastman's previous marriage. In her early years, Rose participated in little theater. She was educated at Lewis and Clark High School, the University of Washington, and Columbia University. Career Rose, who 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. She 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. 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."