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No Man's Land

as Maggie Hodiak

1984
Follow the Boys

as Liz

1963
Bachelor in Paradise

as Dolores Jynson

1961
Please Don't Eat the Daisies

as Deborah Vaughn

1960
Silk Stockings

as Peggy Dayton

1957
This Side of the Law

as Nadine Taylor

1950
Fugitive Lady

as Barbara Clementi

1951
The House Across the Street

as Kit Williams

1949
Romance on the High Seas

as Mrs. Elvira Kent

1948
Winter Meeting

as Peggy Markham

1948
One Sunday Afternoon

as Virginia Brush

1948
Cheyenne

as Emily Carson

1947
Of Human Bondage

as Sally Athelny

1946
Janis Paige Janis Paige

Birthday

1922-09-16

Place of Birth

Tacoma, Washington, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Janis Paige (born as Donna Mae Tjaden, September 16, 1922, Tacoma, Washington) is an American film, musical theatre and television actress. She began singing in public from the age of five in local amateur shows. She then moved to Los Angeles after graduating from high school and then got a job as a singer at the Hollywood Canteen during World War II. The Canteen, which was a studio-sponsored gathering spot for servicemen, is where Warner Bros. saw her potential and signed her up. She began her film career co-starring in secondary musicals, often paired with either Dennis Morgan or Jack Carson. She later was relegated to rugged adventures and dramas in which she was out of her element. Following her role in the forgettable Two Gals and a Guy released in 1951, she decided to leave the Hollywood scene. She then took to the Broadway boards and scored a huge hit with the 1951 comedy-mystery play, Remains to Be Seen, co-starring Jackie Cooper. She also toured successfully as a cabaret singer, performing everywhere from New York City and Miami to Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Stardom came in 1954 with the role of "Babe" in the Broadway musical The Pajama Game. (Doris Day went on to play the role on film.) After a six-year hiatus, Paige returned to films in Silk Stockings (1957), which starred Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, plus the Doris Day comedy Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) followed by a role as a love-starved married neighbor in Bachelor in Paradise with Bob Hope (1961). One of her rare dramatic roles was "Marion," an institutionalized hooker, in the 1963 drama, The Caretakers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janis Paige, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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