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