Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1917-10-15 (87 years old)
Deathday
2004-02-15
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also known As
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Janice Miner (October 15, 1917 – February 15, 2004) was an American actress best known as the character Madge the manicurist in Palmolive dish-washing detergent television commercials from the 1960s to the 1990s. Janice Miner was the daughter of a dentist and a painter, and had three brothers, Sheldon, Donald and Lyndsey. She studied at the Vesper George School of Art in her native Boston, then studied acting under Lee Strasberg and others. She made her stage debut in 1945 in a Boston production of Elmer Rice's Street Scene. Miner then became established on radio, and worked through the 1950s in several series simultaneously. Among other ro...
1974
as Sally Marr
1981
as Mrs. Switzer
1980
as Cousin Daisy
1989
as Laurie Bembenek
1987
as Gertrude Stein
1968
as Lillian Hunsacker
1980
as Maria Kaufman
1990
as Mother Superior
1990
as Mrs. Abbott
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