Janis Paige
Acting • Born 1922-09-16 – Died 2024-06-02
Biography
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.
Filmography
108 credits
The House Across the Street
Movie • 1949
Kit Williams
Silk Stockings
Movie • 1957
Peggy Dayton
Romance on the High Seas
Movie • 1948
Mrs. Elvira Kent
Winter Meeting
Movie • 1948
Peggy Markham
Bathing Beauty
Movie • 1944
Janis
This Side of the Law
Movie • 1950
Nadine Taylor
Hollywood Canteen
Movie • 1944
Studio Guide
Fugitive Lady
Movie • 1950
Barbara Clementi
Her Kind of Man
Movie • 1946
Georgia King
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Movie • 1960
Deborah Vaughn
Bachelor in Paradise
Movie • 1961
Dolores Jynson
Follow the Boys
Movie • 1963
Liz
The Caretakers
Movie • 1963
Marion
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Movie • 2003
Self
The Time, The Place and The Girl
Movie • 1946
Sue Jackson
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
The Younger Brothers
Movie • 1949
Kate Shepherd
Roberta
Movie • 1969
Scharwenka
I Won't Play
Movie • 1944
Kim Karol / Sally
Welcome to Hard Times
Movie • 1967
Adah
Of Human Bondage
Movie • 1946
Sally Athelny
So You Want to Be in Pictures
Movie • 1947
Self (uncredited)
Wallflower
Movie • 1948
Joy Linnett
Cheyenne
Movie • 1947
Emily Carson
One Sunday Afternoon
Movie • 1948
Virginia Brush
Love and Learn
Movie • 1947
Jackie
Two Guys from Milwaukee
Movie • 1946
Polly
Two Gals and a Guy
Movie • 1951
Della Oliver / Sylvia Latour
Lanigan's Rabbi
Movie • 1976
Kate Lanigan
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Movie • 1990
Self
Cop on the Beat
Movie • 1975
Irene
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
Movie • 1975
Lonnie
No Man's Land
Movie • 1984
Maggie Hodiak
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and Silk
Movie • 2003
Self
Love at the Top
Movie • 1982
Estelle
Always Together
Movie • 1947
Polly (uncredited)
Angel on My Shoulder
Movie • 1980
Dolly Blaine
Mister Universe
Movie • 1951
Lorraine
Natural Causes
Movie • 1994
Mrs. MacCarthy
Valentine Magic on Love Island
Movie • 1980
Madge
That's Entertainment! III
Movie • 1994
(archive footage)
This Is Bob Hope...
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission
Movie • 2021
Self
The Other Woman
Movie • 1983
Mrs. barnes
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Movie • 2021
Self
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
Movie • 2009
Self
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Movie • 2009
Self
We Think the World Is Round
Movie • 1984
Nina (voice)
Alice
TV • 1976
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Sharon McCauley
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Minnie Cahoon
All in the Family
TV • 1971
Denise
Flamingo Road
TV • 1981
Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
Joan
Happy Days
TV • 1974
Angela
All's Fair
TV • 1976
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Eight Is Enough
TV • 1977
Auntie V
87th Precinct
TV • 1961
Cheryl Anderson
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958
Lanigan's Rabbi
TV • 1977
Kate Lanigan
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Hallie Martin
Police Story
TV • 1973
Family Law
TV • 1999
Ann Fox
Capitol
TV • 1982
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Iris
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Bebe Evans
Matt Houston
TV • 1982
Lauren Calder
Climax!
TV • 1954
Barbara
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Self
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV • 1956
Self
Lewis & Clark
TV • 1981
Shades of L.A.
TV • 1990
It's Always Jan
TV • 1955
Gun Shy
TV • 1983
Nettie McCoy
Baby Makes Five
TV • 1983
Columbo
TV • 1971
Goldie Williamson
The Bob Hope Show
TV • 1950
Self
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
School Teacher
Night Court
TV • 1984
Eleanor Brandon
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Bob Hope Show
TV • 1950
Madame Nunez
Bret Maverick
TV • 1981
Mandy Packer
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Nellie Jefferson
The Betty White Show
TV • 1977
Wilma
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Miriam
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
Self
Santa Barbara
TV • 1984
Minx Lockridge
Mannix
TV • 1967
Georgia Durian
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Phyllis Morrison
Legends
TV • 2006
Elvira Kent (archive footage) (uncredited)
Trapper John, M.D.
TV • 1979
Catherine Hackett
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1988
Katherine Foster
St. Elsewhere
TV • 1982
Dee Mackaluso
Sarge
TV • 1971
Marian Hart
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
TV • 1970
Charlene Maguire
Banacek
TV • 1972
Lydia
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Studio 57
TV • 1954
The Bell Telephone Hour
TV • 1959
Self
The George Gobel Show
TV • 1954
Self
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
Hatta Mari
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
Mrs. Cavendish
Caroline in the City
TV • 1995
Loretta
Trauma Center
TV • 1983
Police Story
TV • 1973
Irene