Cast & creator
Janis Carter
Best known for Suspense, Lights Out, The Elgin Hour
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janis Carter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Janis Elinore Dremann
32
film credits
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television credits
35
1941–1954 · acting roles
6.2
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (35)
Showing 35 of 35 credits
Suspense
1949
Lights Out
1949The Elgin Hour
1954
A Thousand and One Nights
Harem Girl
1945
Flying Leathernecks
Joan Kirby
1951
Thunder Birds
Blonde Red Cross Nurse Trainee
1942
My Forbidden Past
Corinne Lucas
1951
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Peggy Donato
1949
The Half-Breed
Helen Dowling
1952
Santa Fe
Judith Chandler
1951
One Way to Love
Josie Hart
1946
Lady of Burlesque
Janine
1943
A Woman of Distinction
Teddy Evans
1950
I Love Trouble
Mrs. Caprillo
1948
The Mark of the Whistler
Patricia Henley
1944
The Woman on Pier 13
Christine Norman
1950
The Power of the Whistler
Jean Lang
1945
Secret Agent of Japan
Doris Poole
1942
I Married an Angel
Sufi
1942
Framed
Paula Craig
1947
The Ghost That Walks Alone
Enid Turner
1944
Swing Out the Blues
Dena Marshall
1943
Slightly French
Louisa Gayle
1949
Night Editor
Jill Merrill
1946
And Baby Makes Three
Wanda York
1949
The Missing Juror
Alice Hill
1944
The Girl in the Case
Myra Warner
1944
The Notorious Lone Wolf
Carla Winter
1946
Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Vesta Hadden
1942
One Mysterious Night
Dorothy Anderson
1944
That Other Woman
Constance Powell
1942
The Fighting Guardsman
Christine Roualt
1945
Cadet Girl
Mary Moore
1941
The Sergeant and the Spy
Gizelle
1954
Just Off Broadway
Lillian Hubbard
1942