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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1913-10-10 (111 years old)

Place of Birth

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Janis Carter

Biography:

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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Known For

Acting

1954

1952

The Half-Breed as Helen Dowling

1951

Flying Leathernecks as Joan Kirby
My Forbidden Past as Corinne Lucas
Santa Fe as Judith Chandler

1950

The Woman on Pier 13 as Christine Norman
A Woman of Distinction as Teddy Evans

1949

1948

I Love Trouble as Mrs. Caprillo aka Jane Breeger aka Janie Joy

1947

Framed as Paula Craig

1946

Night Editor as Jill Merrill
The Notorious Lone Wolf as Carla Winter
One Way to Love as Josie Hart

1945

1944

The Missing Juror as Alice Hill
The Mark of the Whistler as Patricia Henley
One Mysterious Night as Dorothy Anderson
The Girl in the Case as Myra Warner

1943

Swing Out the Blues as Dena Marshall

1942

Just Off Broadway as Lillian Hubbard
That Other Woman as Constance Powell
Secret Agent of Japan as Doris Poole
Thunder Birds as Blonde Red Cross Nurse Trainee
Who Is Hope Schuyler? as Vesta Hadden

1941

Cadet Girl as Mary Moore