Eilene Janssen

88, from Los Angeles, California, USA

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Biography

Eilene Janssen was born in Los Angeles, California on May 25, 1938, to Henry Janssen and Mary Ellen Thompson.

She began her film career as a child actress in the early 1940s. With her father being a longtime worker for Universal Studios, Eilene Janssen made her first screen appearance in the 1940 film Sandy Gets Her Man. She continued to have bit parts in several movies such as Two Girls and a Sailor and It Happened Tomorrow. In 1944, she was awarded the title "Little Miss America".

As she grew older, she gained more prominent roles such as Elise in Song of Love and Peggy in The Boy with Green Hair. As a young adult she had a good role as the female lead in the 1957 Western film Escape from Red Rock.

Apart from films, Eilene Janssen also acted in television series like The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best, Mister Ed, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Tales of Wells Fargo, Make Room for Daddy, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Beverly Hillbillies and Perry Mason.

She retired from acting in 1968. As of 2004, she is residing in Pasadena, California.

Janssen married Harry Ronald Rothschild on November 29, 1957. They had two children together before they divorced in 1962. She then married Thomas Alexander Orchard, in 1963. They had one child together before their 1966 divorce. Janssen married George Ellis Moore in 1968. They had two children together before he died in 2000. CLR

Timeline

1968Aged 30

  • Poster for Panic in the City

    Information Clerk

1963Aged 25

  • Poster for Black Zoo

    Bride

1957Aged 19

  • Poster for Beginning of the End

    William's Date

  • Poster for Escape from Red Rock

    Janie Acker

1956Aged 18

  • Poster for The Search for Bridey Murphy

    Bridey Murphy Age 15

1955Aged 17

1954Aged 16

  • Poster for About Mrs. Leslie

    Pixie Croffman

1952Aged 14

  • Poster for Wild Horse Ambush

    Judy

  • Poster for Sally and Saint Anne

    Young Jeanne

1951Aged 13

  • Poster for Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas

    Judy Dawson

  • Poster for The Dakota Kid

    Judy Dawson

  • Poster for Arizona Manhunt

    Judy Dawson

1948Aged 10

  • Poster for On Our Merry Way

    Peggy Thorndyke

  • Poster for Who Killed Doc Robbin?

    Betty

  • Poster for Borrowed Trouble

    Child

  • Poster for The Boy with Green Hair

    Peggy

1947Aged 9

  • Poster for Curley

    Betty

  • Poster for Song of Love

    Elise Schumann

1946Aged 8

  • Poster for Rendezvous 24

    Anchaka Schmidt

  • Poster for The Green Years

    Alison Keith as a child

1944Aged 6

  • Poster for It Happened Tomorrow

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Till We Meet Again

    Yvonne