Janis Carter

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1913-10-10 (81 years old)

Deathday

1994-07-30

Place of Birth

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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 Lo...

Acting

1946

Night Editor

as Jill Merrill

1944

The Missing Juror

as Alice Hill

1950

The Woman on Pier 13

as Christine Norman

1947

Framed

as Paula Craig

1944

The Mark of the Whistler

as Patricia Henley

1949

1948

I Love Trouble

as Mrs. Caprillo aka Jane Breeger aka Janie Joy

1951

Flying Leathernecks

as Joan Kirby

1944

One Mysterious Night

as Dorothy Anderson

1943

1946

1951

My Forbidden Past

as Corinne Lucas

1942

Just Off Broadway

as Lillian Hubbard

1950

1951

Santa Fe

as Judith Chandler

1949

1952

The Half-Breed

as Helen Dowling

1949

Slightly French

as Louisa Gayle

1942

That Other Woman

as Constance Powell

1946

One Way to Love

as Josie Hart

1942

Secret Agent of Japan

as Doris Poole

1945

The Fighting Guardsman

as Christine Roualt

1942

Thunder Birds

as Blonde Red Cross Nurse Trainee

1943

Swing Out the Blues

as Dena Marshall

1944

1944

The Girl in the Case

as Myra Warner

1942

Who Is Hope Schuyler?

as Vesta Hadden

1945

1941

Cadet Girl

as Mary Moore

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