--- name: "Jacqueline deWit" canonical: "https://film.one/person/jacqueline-dewit" fi1m_id: "jacqueline-dewit" imdb_id: "nm0223190" tmdb_id: 105571 wikidata_id: "Q6120245" roles: ["Actor"] born: "26 September 1912" died: "7 January 1998" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-25T07:31:09.134017+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Jacqueline deWit ## Identity Jacqueline deWit - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jacqueline-dewit - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** jacqueline-dewit - **IMDb ID:** nm0223190 - **TMDB ID:** 105571 - **Wikidata ID:** Q6120245 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_deWit, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6120245, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0223190/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/105571 Actor. Born 26 September 1912 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Died 7 January 1998. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 26 September 1912, Los Angeles, California, USA - **Died:** 7 January 1998 - **Also known as:** Jacqueline de Wit, Wilhelmina deWit, Jacqueline DeWit - **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 2 other - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 71 (2), 1950s 86 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_deWit, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6120245, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0223190/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/105571 ## Biography Jacqueline deWit (26 September 1912 – 7 January 1998) was an American film and television character actress. Born in Los Angeles, she began her career on Broadway in the 1930s, appearing in productions including *Romeo and Juliet* (1934) and *The Taming of the Shrew* (1935). She made her screen debut in the early 1940s and worked steadily in supporting roles through the 1960s. DeWit is credited in more than two dozen films, among them *Spellbound* (1945), *The Snake Pit* (1948), *The Damned Don't Cry* (1950), *All That Heaven Allows* (1955) as Mona Plash, *Tea and Sympathy* (1956) and *Harper* (1966). She also appeared in the 1946 comedy *Little Giant* as Bud Abbott's wife, and on television in episodes of *The Twilight Zone* (1959), *Wagon Train* and *The Monkees*. Her career spanned from 1943 to 1970. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) ### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these - *All That Heaven Allows* (1955), Fi1m 86, as Mona Plash — [page](https://film.one/film/all-that-heaven-allows.md) ### Also credited (2) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *The Snake Pit* (1948), Fi1m 76, as Celia Sommerville (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-snake-pit.md) - *Spellbound* (1945), Fi1m 66, as Nurse (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/spellbound.md) ## Complete filmography (62) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration* (2019), as Helen Bemis (archive footage) - *La Classe américaine* (1993), as Handmaid (archive footage) (uncredited) - *The Name of the Game* (1968), series, as Mattie - *The Monkees* (1966), series, as Kate - *Harper* (1966), as Mrs. Kronberg - *Arrest and Trial* (1963), series, as Mrs. Flynn - *Twice-Told Tales* (1963), as Hannah Pyncheon, Gerald's Sister - *It Happened at the World's Fair* (1963), as Mrs. Johnson (uncredited) - *Pocketful of Miracles* (1961), as Louise (Governor's Wife) (uncredited) - *Surfside 6* (1960), series, as Manager - *Hawaiian Eye* (1959), series, as Agnes - *The Twilight Zone* (1959), series, as Helen Bemis — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-twilight-zone.md) - *One Step Beyond* (1959), series, as Julia - *Hi Grandma!* (1958), Actor - *Wagon Train* (1957), series, as Princess - *Tea and Sympathy* (1956), as Lilly Sears - *State Trooper* (1956), series, as Mrs. Avery - *Toy Tiger* (1956), as Edna - *Prima Donna* (1956), as Emmy - *Screen Director's Playhouse* (1955), series, as Mercedes Fairfax, Emmy - *All That Heaven Allows* (1955), as Mona Plash — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/all-that-heaven-allows.md) - *Lay That Rifle Down* (1955), as Aunt Sarah Greeb - *The Shrike* (1955), as Katharine Meade - *Studio 57* (1954), series, as Harriet Hackett - *Playgirl* (1954), as Greta Marsh - *The Danny Thomas Show* (1953), series, as Nick Radford - *Letter to Loretta* (1953), series, as Mrs. Potter, Siri, Rachel Brackett, Mrs. Peabody - *She's Back on Broadway* (1953), as Lisa Kramer - *Carrie* (1952), as Carrie's Sister Minnie - *Schlitz Playhouse of Stars* (1951), series, as Janice - *The First Legion* (1951), as Miss Hamilton - *Lux Video Theatre* (1950), series, as Phyllis - *Never a Dull Moment* (1950), as Myra Van Elson (uncredited) - *On the Isle of Samoa* (1950), as Mrs. Marguerite Leach - *The Great Jewel Robber* (1950), as Mrs. Arthur Vinson - *The Happy Years* (1950), as Mrs. Cameron - *The Damned Don't Cry* (1950), as Sandra - *Chinatown at Midnight* (1949), as Lisa Marcel (as Jacqueline DeWit) - *It's a Great Feeling* (1949), as Trent's Secretary (uncredited) - *Suspense* (1949), series, Actor - *Studio One* (1948), series, as Mrs. Clipp - *The Snake Pit* (1948), as Celia Sommerville (uncredited) — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/the-snake-pit.md) - *The Ford Theatre Hour* (1948), series, as Margaret Aubyn - *Something in the Wind* (1947), as Fashion Show Saleslady - *The Lone Wolf in Mexico* (1947), as Liliane Dumont - *Wild Beauty* (1946), as Cissy Cruthers - *Cuban Pete* (1946), as Lindsay - *She Wrote the Book* (1946), as Millicent Van Cleve - *Little Giant* (1946), as Hazel Temple Morrison - *Saratoga Trunk* (1945), as Guilia Forosini (uncredited) - *Spellbound* (1945), as Nurse (uncredited) — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/spellbound.md) - *Week-End at the Waldorf* (1945), as Kate Douglas - *That Night with You* (1945), as Blossom Drake - *Men in Her Diary* (1945), as Marjorie Barnes - *Lady on a Train* (1945), as Miss Fletcher, Morgan's Secretary - *Swing Out, Sister* (1945), as Pat Cameron - *I'll Remember April* (1945), as Whisper - *Fog Island* (1945), as Emiline Bronson (as Jacqueline DeWit) - *Moonlight and Cactus* (1944), as Elsie - *Black Magic* (1944), as Justine Bonner - *Dragon Seed* (1944), as Wu Lien's Wife - *The Leopard Man* (1943), as Helene (uncredited) ## Gallery - ![Jacqueline deWit](https://film.one/media/person/1235250/gallery-6f6b931f4728.jpg) Jacqueline deWit — film screenshot (PRC), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Jacqueline_deWit_in_Fog_Island.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Jacqueline deWit](https://film.one/media/person/1235250/gallery-c940523237f1.jpg) Jacqueline deWit — Image via TMDB - ![Jacqueline deWit](https://film.one/media/person/1235250/gallery-01593b67357d.jpg) Jacqueline deWit — Image via TMDB - ![Jacqueline deWit](https://film.one/media/person/1235250/gallery-64ceb84df442.jpg) Jacqueline deWit — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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