Janis Carter
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 10, 1913
- Place of birth
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Died
- July 30, 1994
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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Movies with Janis Carter
- Flying Leathernecks 1951 · ★ 5.8
- Lady of Burlesque 1943 · ★ 5.4
- Framed 1947 · ★ 6.5
- The Woman on Pier 13 1950 · ★ 5.3
- Santa Fe 1951 · ★ 6.8
- Night Editor 1946 · ★ 5.5
- I Love Trouble 1948 · ★ 6.5
- My Forbidden Past 1951 · ★ 5.5
- The Power of the Whistler 1945 · ★ 5.9
- A Thousand and One Nights 1945 · ★ 6.1
- The Mark of the Whistler 1944 · ★ 6.2
- One Mysterious Night 1944 · ★ 6.2
- The Missing Juror 1944 · ★ 6.3
- Miss Grant Takes Richmond 1949 · ★ 5.6
- Thunder Birds 1942 · ★ 6.0
- Just Off Broadway 1942 · ★ 6.0
- And Baby Makes Three 1949 · ★ 5.1
- Slightly French 1949 · ★ 7.5
- The Notorious Lone Wolf 1946 · ★ 6.0
- A Woman of Distinction 1950 · ★ 7.0
- The Girl in the Case 1944 · ★ 6.6
- Secret Agent of Japan 1942 · ★ 5.5
- I Married an Angel 1942 · ★ 6.0
- Swing Out the Blues 1943 · ★ 4.8
- The Ghost That Walks Alone 1944 · ★ 4.8
- That Other Woman 1942 · ★ 6.7
- Who Is Hope Schuyler? 1942 · ★ 4.5
- The Half-Breed 1952 · ★ 7.0
- One Way to Love 1946 · ★ 7.0
- The Fighting Guardsman 1945 · ★ 8.5
- Cadet Girl 1941 · ★ 8.0
- The Sergeant and the Spy 1954 · ★ 8.0