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Janis Carter
Actor
Died July 30, 1994 (80 years)
Janis Carter (October 10, 1913 — July 30, 1994) was a film and television actress working in the 1940s and 1950s.
After attending Mather College in Cleveland, Ohio, Carter headed to New York in an attempt to start an opera career. Although unsuccessful in opera, she was working on Broadway where she was spotted on stage by Darryl F. Zanuck who signed her to a movie deal.
Carter, after moving to Hollywood, appeared in over 30 films beginning in 1941 for 20th Century Fox, MGM, Columbia, and RKO. She appeared in the films Night Editor (1946) and Framed (1947) with Glenn Ford and the Flying Leathernecks (1951) with John Wayne.
After leaving Los Angeles, Carter returned to New York and found work in television in comedies, dramas, and as hostess for the quiz show Feather Your Nest, opposite Bud Collyer.
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After attending Mather College in Cleveland, Ohio, Carter headed to New York in an attempt to start an opera career. Although unsuccessful in opera, she was working on Broadway where she was spotted on stage by Darryl F. Zanuck who signed her to a movie deal.
Carter, after moving to Hollywood, appeared in over 30 films beginning in 1941 for 20th Century Fox, MGM, Columbia, and RKO. She appeared in the films Night Editor (1946) and Framed (1947) with Glenn Ford and the Flying Leathernecks (1951) with John Wayne.
After leaving Los Angeles, Carter returned to New York and found work in television in comedies, dramas, and as hostess for the quiz show Feather Your Nest, opposite Bud Collyer.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Janis Carter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
| 1954 | The Elgin Hour (TV Series) |
| 1952 | The Half-Breed · as Helen Dowling |
| 1951 | Flying Leathernecks · as Joan Kirby |
| 1951 | My Forbidden Past · as Corinne Lucas |
| 1951 | Santa Fe · as Judith Chandler |
| 1950 | A Woman of Distinction · as Teddy Evans |
| 1949 | The Woman on Pier 13 · as Christine Norman |
| 1949 | And Baby Makes Three · as Wanda York |
| 1949 | Miss Grant Takes Richmond · as Peggy Donato |
| 1949 | Slightly French · as Louisa Gayle |
| 1949 | Suspense (TV Series) |
| 1948 | I Love Trouble · as Mrs. Caprillo Aka Jane Breeger Aka Janie Joy |
| 1947 | Framed · as Paula Craig |
| 1946 | Lights Out (TV Series) |
| 1946 | Night Editor · as Jill Merrill |
| 1946 | The Notorious Lone Wolf · as Carla Winter |
| 1946 | One Way to Love · as Josie Hart |
| 1945 | The Fighting Guardsman · as Christine Roualt |
| 1945 | A Thousand and One Nights · as Harem Girl |
| 1945 | The Power of the Whistler · as Jean Lang |
| 1944 | Together Again · as Miss Thorn |
| 1944 | The Missing Juror · as Alice Hill |
| 1944 | One Mysterious Night · as Dorothy Anderson |
| 1944 | The Mark of the Whistler · as Patricia Henley |
| 1944 | Girl in the Case · as Myra Warner |
| 1944 | The Ghost That Walks Alone · as Enid Turner |
| 1943 | Lady of Burlesque · as Janine |
| 1942 | Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air · as Blonde Red Cross Nurse Trainee |
| 1942 | That Other Woman · as Constance Powell |
| 1942 | Girl Trouble · as Virginia |
| 1942 | Just Off Broadway · as Lillian Hubbard |
| 1942 | I Married an Angel · as Sufi |
| 1942 | Who Is Hope Schuyler? · as Vesta Hadden |
| 1942 | Secret Agent of Japan · as Doris Poole |