Ace, Jane (1905–1974)

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Ace, Jane (1905–1974)

American radio actress. Born Jane Sherwood, Oct 12, 1905, in Kansas City, Missouri; died Nov 11, 1974; married Goodman Ace (radio actor and writer), 1928.

With husband, starred on the urbane radio show "Easy Aces" (1928–45); portrayed the amiable but ditzy wife while he played the indulgent husband, generally tagging her non-sequiturs with "Isn't that awful," or another line, famously purloined by Ronald Reagan in a campaign debate with Walter Mondale, "There you go again."

See also Goodman Ace, Ladies and Gentlemen—Easy Aces (Doubleday, 1970).