Janis Paige

Known for ActingBorn 1922-09-16Died 2024-06-02Tacoma, Washington, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

It's Always Jan

Banacek

This Is Bob Hope...

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's

Family Law

Columbo

The Turning Point of Jim Malloy

The Bell Telephone Hour

Studio 57

All in the Family

All's Fair

87th Precinct

Mission: Impossible

Happy Days

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Rockford Files

The George Gobel Show

Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission

Sarge

Night Court

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and Silk

The Younger Brothers

That's Entertainment! III

The Red Skelton Show

The Fugitive

Shades of L.A.

Alice

Hawaii Five-O

Trauma Center

Hollywood Canteen

Police Story

Always Together

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Two Gals and a Guy

The Bob Hope Show

Gun Shy

Caroline in the City

One Sunday Afternoon

Cheyenne

Charlie's Angels

Mannix

Angel on My Shoulder

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Silk Stockings

General Electric Theater

Trapper John, M.D.