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Janis Carter
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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As actor
The Sergeant and the Spy
The Half-Breed
Flying Leathernecks
My Forbidden Past
Santa Fe
The Woman on Pier 13
A Woman of Distinction
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
And Baby Makes Three
Slightly French
I Love Trouble
Framed
Night Editor
The Notorious Lone Wolf
One Way to Love
The Power of the Whistler
The Fighting Guardsman
A Thousand and One Nights
The Missing Juror
The Mark of the Whistler
One Mysterious Night
The Ghost That Walks Alone
The Girl in the Case
Lady of Burlesque
Swing Out the Blues
Just Off Broadway
That Other Woman
Secret Agent of Japan
I Married an Angel
Thunder Birds