Jayne Meadows, Actress and Steve Allen’s Wife and Co-Star, Dies at 95

[lsanderson]

She [Jayne Meadows] recalled on her website that George Cukor, who had directed her screen test, asked Ms. Hepburn’s opinion of the newcomer, and that she replied, “Considering I’m old enough to be her mother and she’s playing my rival, I think she’s a genius.”