Moving Around
In 1951, Jayne and her husband Paul moved to Austin, where she began studying dramatics at the University of Texas at Austin. She later spent a year living at U.S. Army training facility Camp Gordon in Georgia when her husband was serving in the U.S. Army Reserve during the Korean War.
Acting Lessons With A Legend
In 1953, Jayne headed back to Dallas where she studied under actor Baruch Lumet, who was the founder of the Dallas Institute of Performing Arts. She had private lessons with Lumet alongside actor Rip Torn. Lumet referred to them as his “kids.” Lumet went on to help Jayne score her first screen test at Paramount in 1954.