Janis Carter
Actor
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.
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Filmography
Framed
as Paula Craig 1947
Lady of Burlesque
as Janine 1943
The Woman on Pier 13
as Christine Norman 1950
Night Editor
as Jill Merrill 1946
Santa Fe
as Judith Chandler 1951
I Love Trouble
as Mrs. Caprillo aka Jane Breeger aka Janie Joy 1948
My Forbidden Past
as Corinne Lucas 1951
The Power of the Whistler
as Jean Lang 1945
A Thousand and One Nights
as Harem Girl 1945
The Mark of the Whistler
as Patricia Henley 1944
One Mysterious Night
as Dorothy Anderson 1944
The Missing Juror
as Alice Hill 1944
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
as Peggy Donato 1949
Thunder Birds
as Blonde Red Cross Nurse Trainee 1942
And Baby Makes Three
as Wanda York 1949
Slightly French
as Louisa Gayle 1949