Janis Carter

Janis Carter

  • Birthday: 1913-10-10
  • Deathday: 1994-07-30
  • Place of birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
  • Also know as: Janis Elinore Dremann

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

Night Editor

1946

As Jill Merrill

The Missing Juror

1944

As Alice Hill

Framed

1947

As Paula Craig

The Mark of the Whistler

1944

As Patricia Henley

The Power of the Whistler

1945

As Jean Lang

One Mysterious Night

1944

As Dorothy Anderson

The Notorious Lone Wolf

1946

As Carla Winter

Santa Fe

1951

As Judith Chandler

The Half-Breed

1952

As Helen Dowling

The Ghost That Walks Alone

1944

As Enid Turner

The Girl in the Case

1944

As Myra Warner

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

1949

As Peggy Donato

I Love Trouble

1948

As Mrs. Caprillo aka Jane Breeger aka Janie Joy

Slightly French

1949

As Louisa Gayle

The Fighting Guardsman

1946

As Christine Roualt

Swing Out the Blues

1943

As Dena Marshall

Flying Leathernecks

1951

As Joan Kirby

Just Off Broadway

1942

As Lillian Hubbard

A Woman of Distinction

1950

As Teddy Evans

And Baby Makes Three

1949

As Wanda York

That Other Woman

1942

As Constance Powell

One Way to Love

1946

As Josie Hart

The Woman on Pier 13

1950

As Christine Norman

My Forbidden Past

1951

As Corinne Lucas

Secret Agent of Japan

1942

As Doris Poole

Cadet Girl

1941

As Mary Moore

Who Is Hope Schuyler?

1942

As Vesta Hadden

I Married an Angel

1942

As Sufi

Thunder Birds

1942

As Blonde Red Cross Nurse Trainee

Lady of Burlesque

1943

As Janine

A Thousand and One Nights

1945

As Harem Girl

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