Janis Carter
Born: 1913-10-10 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Died: 1994-07-30
Known For: Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janis Carter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1954
- The Elgin Hour
- The Sergeant and the Spy as Gizelle
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
- Lights Out
- Suspense
- Miss Grant Takes Richmond as Peggy Donato
- And Baby Makes Three as Wanda York
- Slightly French as Louisa Gayle
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
- A Thousand and One Nights as Harem Girl
- The Power of the Whistler as Jean Lang
- The Fighting Guardsman as Christine Roualt
1944
- The Mark of the Whistler as Patricia Henley
- The Missing Juror as Alice Hill
- One Mysterious Night as Dorothy Anderson
- The Ghost That Walks Alone as Enid Turner
- The Girl in the Case as Myra Warner
1943
- Lady of Burlesque as Janine
- Swing Out the Blues as Dena Marshall
1942
- I Married an Angel as Sufi
- Thunder Birds as Blonde Red Cross Nurse Trainee
- Just Off Broadway as Lillian Hubbard
- Secret Agent of Japan as Doris Poole
- That Other Woman as Constance Powell
- Who Is Hope Schuyler? as Vesta Hadden
1941
- Cadet Girl as Mary Moore