Janis Carter

from Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Artwork for I Married an AngelImage of Janis Carter

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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Timeline

1954Aged 41

  • Poster for The Sergeant and the Spy

    Gizelle

1952Aged 39

  • Poster for The Half-Breed

    Helen Dowling

1951Aged 38

  • Poster for Santa Fe

    Judith Chandler

  • Poster for My Forbidden Past

    Corinne Lucas

  • Poster for Flying Leathernecks

    Joan Kirby

1950Aged 37

  • Poster for A Woman of Distinction

    Teddy Evans

  • Poster for The Woman on Pier 13

    Christine Norman

1949Aged 36

  • Poster for Slightly French

    Louisa Gayle

  • Poster for Miss Grant Takes Richmond

    Peggy Donato

  • Poster for And Baby Makes Three

    Wanda York

1948Aged 35

  • Poster for I Love Trouble

    Mrs. Caprillo

1947Aged 34

  • Poster for Framed

    Paula Craig

1946Aged 33

  • Poster for One Way to Love

    Josie Hart

  • Poster for The Notorious Lone Wolf

    Carla Winter

  • Poster for Night Editor

    Jill Merrill

1945Aged 32

  • Poster for The Power of the Whistler

    Jean Lang

  • Poster for The Fighting Guardsman

    Christine Roualt

  • Poster for A Thousand and One Nights

    Harem Girl

1944Aged 31

  • Poster for The Ghost That Walks Alone

    Enid Turner

  • Poster for The Girl in the Case

    Myra Warner

  • Poster for The Mark of the Whistler

    Patricia Henley

  • Poster for One Mysterious Night

    Dorothy Anderson

  • Poster for The Missing Juror

    Alice Hill

1943Aged 30

  • Poster for Lady of Burlesque

    Janine

  • Poster for Swing Out the Blues

    Dena Marshall

1942Aged 29

  • Poster for Secret Agent of Japan

    Doris Poole

  • Poster for Who Is Hope Schuyler?

    Vesta Hadden

  • Poster for I Married an Angel

    Sufi

  • Poster for Just Off Broadway

    Lillian Hubbard

  • Poster for Thunder Birds

    Blonde Red Cross Nurse Trainee

  • Poster for That Other Woman

    Constance Powell

1941Aged 28

  • Poster for Cadet Girl

    Mary Moore