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Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 16, 1922
Died
June 2, 2024
Place of Birth
Tacoma, Washington, USA
Also Known As
- Janis Page
- Donna Mae Tjaden
- جانيس بيج
Janis Paige
0.4 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
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Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
9.0
Self
Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission
2021
8.0
Self (archive footage)
This Is Bob Hope...
2017
8.0
Self
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
2009
0.0
Self
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
2009
5.0
Elvira Kent (archive footage) (uncredited)
Legends
2006
0.0
Self
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and Silk
2003
7.0
Self
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
8.2
Ann Fox
Family Law
1999
6.4
Loretta
Caroline in the City
1995
Credits
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self
2021
0.0
Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission
as Self
2021
9.0
This Is Bob Hope...
as Self (archive footage)
2017
8.0
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
as Self
2009
8.0
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
as Self
2009
0.0
Legends
as Elvira Kent (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006
5.0
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and Silk
as Self
2003
0.0
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003
7.0
Family Law
as Ann Fox
1999
8.2
Caroline in the City
as Loretta
1995
6.4
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1994
7.0
Natural Causes
as Mrs. MacCarthy
1994
5.0
Shades of L.A.
1990
6.0
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
as Self
1990
0.0
Mission: Impossible
as Katherine Foster
1988
7.5
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage)
1988
6.0
Santa Barbara
as Minx Lockridge
1984
4.8
No Man's Land
as Maggie Hodiak
1984
6.0
Night Court
as Eleanor Brandon
1984
7.3
Trauma Center
1983
5.0
🎬
Baby Makes Five
1983
5.0
The Other Woman
as Mrs. barnes
1983
3.3
Gun Shy
as Nettie McCoy
1983
5.0
St. Elsewhere
as Dee Mackaluso
1982
5.6
Matt Houston
as Lauren Calder
1982
6.2
Capitol
1982
5.7
Love at the Top
as Estelle
1982
0.0
Bret Maverick
as Mandy Packer
1981
5.0
🎬
Lewis & Clark
1981
5.0
Flamingo Road
1981
6.1
Angel on My Shoulder
as Dolly Blaine
1980
6.0
Valentine Magic on Love Island
as Madge
1980
1.0
Trapper John, M.D.
as Catherine Hackett
1979
6.5
The Love Boat
as Phyllis Morrison
1977
6.3
🎬
The Betty White Show
as Wilma
1977
6.3
Eight Is Enough
as Auntie V
1977
6.1
🎬
Lanigan's Rabbi
as Kate Lanigan
1977
5.0
Charlie's Angels
as Joan
1976
6.7
All's Fair
1976
7.0
Alice
1976
7.1
Lanigan's Rabbi
as Kate Lanigan
1976
0.0
Cop on the Beat
as Irene
1975
4.1
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
as Lonnie
1975
0.0
The Rockford Files
as Miriam
1974
7.6
Happy Days
as Angela
1974
7.6
Police Story
1973
6.9
Police Story
as Irene
1973
6.9
Banacek
as Lydia
1972
8.6
Sarge
as Marian Hart
1971
5.0
Columbo
as Goldie Williamson
1971
8.1
All in the Family
as Denise
1971
7.8
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
as Charlene Maguire
1970
7.6
🎬
Roberta
as Scharwenka
1969
5.0
Hawaii Five-O
as Minnie Cahoon
1968
7.1
Mannix
as Georgia Durian
1967
6.7
Welcome to Hard Times
as Adah
1967
5.1
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Self
1963
5.7
Burke's Law
as Sharon McCauley
1963
6.0
The Fugitive
as Hallie Martin
1963
7.2
The Caretakers
as Marion
1963
6.2
Follow the Boys
as Liz
1963
3.9
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Bachelor in Paradise
as Dolores Jynson
1961
6.3
87th Precinct
as Cheryl Anderson
1961
7.5
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
as Deborah Vaughn
1960
6.1
The Bell Telephone Hour
as Self
1959
7.3
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
5.8
Wagon Train
as Nellie Jefferson
1957
6.6
Silk Stockings
as Peggy Dayton
1957
6.7
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
🎬
It's Always Jan
1955
0.0
Climax!
as Barbara
1954
3.3
🎬
The George Gobel Show
as Self
1954
7.3
Studio 57
1954
0.0
General Electric Theater
1953
6.4
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Bebe Evans
1951
7.2
The Red Skelton Show
as School Teacher
1951
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
as Self
1951
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
as Hatta Mari
1951
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
as Mrs. Cavendish
1951
7.4
Two Gals and a Guy
as Della Oliver / Sylvia Latour
1951
0.0
Mister Universe
as Lorraine
1951
5.0
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Iris
1950
6.3
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
This Side of the Law
as Nadine Taylor
1950
4.5
Fugitive Lady
as Barbara Clementi
1950
3.3
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
7.0
The Bob Hope Show
as Madame Nunez
1950
7.0
The House Across the Street
as Kit Williams
1949
4.0
The Younger Brothers
as Kate Shepherd
1949
5.0
One Sunday Afternoon
as Virginia Brush
1948
6.0
Romance on the High Seas
as Mrs. Elvira Kent
1948
6.7
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Wallflower
as Joy Linnett
1948
6.0
Winter Meeting
as Peggy Markham
1948
6.5
Always Together
as Polly (uncredited)
1947
6.7
🎬
So You Want to Be in Pictures
as Self (uncredited)
1947
5.8
Cheyenne
as Emily Carson
1947
6.8
Love and Learn
as Jackie
1947
5.5
The Time, The Place and The Girl
as Sue Jackson
1946
5.4
Two Guys from Milwaukee
as Polly
1946
4.4
Of Human Bondage
as Sally Athelny
1946
6.0
Her Kind of Man
as Georgia King
1946
5.9
Hollywood Canteen
as Studio Guide
1944
7.3
I Won't Play
as Kim Karol / Sally
1944
6.4
Bathing Beauty
as Janis
1944
5.7