Janis Carter
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janis Carter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Thunder Birds (1942)
as Blonde Red Cross Nurse Trainee
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
as Joan Kirby
I Love Trouble (1948)
as Mrs. Caprillo
Lady of Burlesque (1943)
as Janine
A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
as Harem Girl
My Forbidden Past (1951)
as Corinne Lucas
Night Editor (1946)
as Jill Merrill
The Mark of the Whistler (1944)
as Patricia Henley
Santa Fe (1951)
as Judith Chandler
Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)
as Peggy Donato
Cadet Girl (1941)
as Mary Moore
A Woman of Distinction (1950)
as Teddy Evans
Framed (1947)
as Paula Craig
One Way to Love (1946)
as Josie Hart
One Mysterious Night (1944)
as Dorothy Anderson
And Baby Makes Three (1949)
as Wanda York
The Half-Breed (1952)
as Helen Dowling
The Notorious Lone Wolf (1946)
as Carla Winter
The Power of the Whistler (1945)
as Jean Lang
The Woman on Pier 13 (1950)
as Christine Norman
Slightly French (1949)
as Louisa Gayle
The Missing Juror (1944)
as Alice Hill
The Ghost That Walks Alone (1944)
as Enid Turner
The Fighting Guardsman (1945)
as Christine Roualt
Who Is Hope Schuyler? (1942)
as Vesta Hadden
The Girl in the Case (1944)
as Myra Warner
That Other Woman (1942)
as Constance Powell
I Married an Angel (1942)
as Sufi
Just Off Broadway (1942)
as Lillian Hubbard
Secret Agent of Japan (1942)
as Doris Poole
The Sergeant and the Spy (1954)
as Gizelle
Swing Out the Blues (1943)
as Dena Marshall