
Janis Paige
Born September 16, 1922 · Tacoma, 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.
Movies

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression

Welcome to Hard Times

Bathing Beauty

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

That's Entertainment! III

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

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Romance on the High Seas

Natural Causes

Silk Stockings

Bachelor in Paradise

No Man's Land

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

Mister Universe

This Is Bob Hope...

Cop on the Beat

Her Kind of Man

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

Hollywood Canteen

The Time, The Place and The Girl

This Side of the Law

The Turning Point of Jim Malloy

Two Guys from Milwaukee

Valentine Magic on Love Island

Angel on My Shoulder

Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and Silk

The Other Woman

Lanigan's Rabbi

The House Across the Street

One Sunday Afternoon

Follow the Boys

Two Gals and a Guy

Always Together

Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission

Cheyenne

The Caretakers

I Won't Play

Of Human Bondage

Love and Learn

The Younger Brothers

Love at the Top

Fugitive Lady

Wallflower

Winter Meeting
TV Shows

Hawaii Five-O

Mannix

The Fugitive

Wagon Train

Night Court

Tony Awards

The Rockford Files

St. Elsewhere

Climax!

Happy Days

The Red Skelton Show

Charlie's Angels

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Alice

Caroline in the City

Capitol

Fantasy Island

Burke's Law

Matt Houston

Trapper John, M.D.

The Bob Hope Show

Family Law

All in the Family

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Police Story

Eight Is Enough

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Studio 57

87th Precinct

Legends

Mission: Impossible

The Bell Telephone Hour

Banacek

Medical Story

Santa Barbara

Shades of L.A.

Bret Maverick

Trauma Center

Flamingo Road

The Betty White Show

Sarge

General Electric Theater






