[1] Born Jean Dawson Keenleyside in London, Ontario, Canada, her films included Love at First Sight, The Sweet and the Bitter, The Yellow Leaf, Nothing Personal, and Improper Channels.
She was a stalwart on CBC Radio from the 1940s to the 1970s, working with such notables as Andrew Allan, John Drainie, and Barry Morse.
[5] Following her death in 1984 (three days before her 85th birthday), she was posthumously celebrated in Toronto by the naming of a theatre in her honour at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts.
[6] The Jane Mallett Theatre is a 498-seat venue, an intimate environment with superior sight lines and exceptional acoustics.
Staffed by professional technicians and equipped with a lighting grid and unique fly system, the semi-circular thrust stage is ideal for concerts, theatrical productions as well as the most demanding high-tech audiovisual presentations.