Janis Carter
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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.
Known for
Credits
A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
as Harem Girl
Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)
as Peggy Donato
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
as Joan Kirby
One Way to Love (1946)
as Josie Hart
The Half-Breed (1952)
as Helen Dowling
The Power of the Whistler (1945)
as Jean Lang
My Forbidden Past (1951)
as Corinne Lucas
Lady of Burlesque (1943)
as Janine
The Mark of the Whistler (1944)
as Patricia Henley
Santa Fe (1951)
as Judith Chandler
Thunder Birds (1942)
as Blonde Red Cross Nurse Trainee
The Notorious Lone Wolf (1946)
as Carla Winter
I Married an Angel (1942)
as Sufi
I Love Trouble (1948)
as Mrs. Caprillo
The Woman on Pier 13 (1950)
as Christine Norman
The Ghost That Walks Alone (1944)
as Enid Turner
Framed (1947)
as Paula Craig
A Woman of Distinction (1950)
as Teddy Evans
Secret Agent of Japan (1942)
as Doris Poole
And Baby Makes Three (1949)
as Wanda York
The Girl in the Case (1944)
as Myra Warner
Swing Out the Blues (1943)
as Dena Marshall
The Missing Juror (1944)
as Alice Hill
Who Is Hope Schuyler? (1942)
as Vesta Hadden
Slightly French (1949)
as Louisa Gayle
Night Editor (1946)
as Jill Merrill
Cadet Girl (1941)
as Mary Moore
That Other Woman (1942)
as Constance Powell
The Fighting Guardsman (1945)
as Christine Roualt
Just Off Broadway (1942)
as Lillian Hubbard
The Sergeant and the Spy (1954)
as Gizelle
One Mysterious Night (1944)
as Dorothy Anderson