Janis Paige
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Janis Paige (September 16, 1922 - June 2, 2024; born as Donna Mae Tjaden in Tacoma, Washington) was 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.
106 acting credits
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Columbo
1971
Mannix
1967
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Love Boat
1977
The Fugitive
1963
Charlie's Angels
1976
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Wagon Train
1957
Night Court
1984
St. Elsewhere
1982
The Rockford Files
1974
Tony Awards
1956
Climax!
1954
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Happy Days
1974
Burke's Law
1963
Alice
1976
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
The Red Skelton Show
1951
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970
Caroline in the City
1995
All in the Family
1971
Family Law
1999
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
Matt Houston
1982
Capitol
1982
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Bob Hope Show
1950
Eight Is Enough
1977
Studio 57
1954
Police Story
1973
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
Banacek
1972
Lux Video Theatre
1950
87th Precinct
1961
Legends
2006
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
Shades of L.A.
1990
Flamingo Road
1981
Mission: Impossible
1988
Medical Story
1975
Bret Maverick
1981
The George Gobel Show
1954
Trauma Center
1983
Santa Barbara
1984
Sarge
1971
The Betty White Show
1977
General Electric Theater
1953
All's Fair
1976
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Lanigan's Rabbi
1977
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
It's Always Jan
1955
Lewis & Clark
1981
Gun Shy
1983
Silk Stockings
1957
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Baby Makes Five
1983
Bathing Beauty
1944
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1960
Hollywood Canteen
1944
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
2009
Romance on the High Seas
1948
Bachelor in Paradise
1961
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
2009
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
1990
The Other Woman
1983
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976
This Is Bob Hope...
2017
Always Together
1947
Cheyenne
1947
The Time, The Place and The Girl
1946
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
1975
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
Fugitive Lady
1950
This Side of the Law
1950
Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission
2021
Natural Causes
1994
Of Human Bondage
1946
Valentine Magic on Love Island
1980
The Caretakers
1963
The House Across the Street
1949
Cop on the Beat
1975
Wallflower
1948
The Younger Brothers
1949
No Man's Land
1984
Winter Meeting
1948
Two Guys from Milwaukee
1946
Roberta
1969
One Sunday Afternoon
1948
Follow the Boys
1963
So You Want to Be in Pictures
1947
Mister Universe
1951
Lanigan's Rabbi
1976
Angel on My Shoulder
1980
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and Silk
2003
Two Gals and a Guy
1951
Love and Learn
1947
I Won't Play
1944
Her Kind of Man
1946
Love at the Top
1982
We Think the World Is Round
1984