Janis Carter
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.
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Full filmography
- Lights Out (1949)
- Suspense (1949)
- The Elgin Hour (1954)
- I Love Trouble (1948) as Mrs. Caprillo
- Lady of Burlesque (1943) as Janine
- Thunder Birds (1942) as Blonde Red Cross Nurse Trainee
- Flying Leathernecks (1951) as Joan Kirby
- The Half-Breed (1952) as Helen Dowling
- A Thousand and One Nights (1945) as Harem Girl
- My Forbidden Past (1951) as Corinne Lucas
- Santa Fe (1951) as Judith Chandler
- The Missing Juror (1944) as Alice Hill
- Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) as Peggy Donato
- Night Editor (1946) as Jill Merrill
- Framed (1947) as Paula Craig
- The Woman on Pier 13 (1950) as Christine Norman
- Slightly French (1949) as Louisa Gayle
- And Baby Makes Three (1949) as Wanda York
- That Other Woman (1942) as Constance Powell
- A Woman of Distinction (1950) as Teddy Evans
- The Mark of the Whistler (1944) as Patricia Henley
- The Fighting Guardsman (1945) as Christine Roualt
- Cadet Girl (1941) as Mary Moore
- One Way to Love (1946) as Josie Hart