Janet Munro won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the film Darby O'Gill and the Little People and received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for her performance in the film Life for Ruth.
29 Facts About Janet Munro
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Janet Munro grew up on the road with her father, often appearing with him on stage.
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Janet Munro's mother died when Janet was seven and she was brought up by her father at first.
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Janet Munro moved to the village of Embsay at age ten to live with her aunt and uncle for a time.
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Janet Munro's father wanted her to join him on his act but she desired to become a legitimate actress.
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Janet Munro appeared in a BBC TV adaptation of I Capture the Castle, playing the lead part of Rose.
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Janet Munro had a small part in the Gordon Harker comedy Small Hotel and started appearing regularly on British TV shows such as ITV Television Playhouse and Armchair Theatre.
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Janet Munro could be seen in ingenue parts in the feature films The Trollenberg Terror, a horror film, and The Young and the Guilty, a melodrama written by Ted Willis.
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Janet Munro appeared on stage in Daughters of Desire and was chosen "Miss English Television of 1958".
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Janet Munro made her US television debut when she played the romantic lead in a TV adaptation of Berkeley Square for Hallmark Hall of Fame.
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Janet Munro was directed by George Schaefer and appeared opposite John Kerr.
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Janet Munro returned to England to play Tommy Steele's love interest in Tommy the Toreador, then made a third film for Disney, Swiss Family Robinson, again romancing MacArthur.
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Janet Munro was going to be in Bon Voyage for Disney with Karl Malden but it was not made for another few years, with Deborah Walley in the role announced for Janet Munro.
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Janet Munro returned to US television with Time Remembered for Hallmark Hall of Fame.
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Janet Munro was the female lead in the science fiction film The Day the Earth Caught Fire, one of her best remembered parts.
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Janet Munro had the female lead role in Life for Ruth, directed by Basil Dearden, which earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Female Actor.
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Janet Munro returned to Armchair Theatre and was top billed in a film for the first time with Bitter Harvest, but it was not a success.
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Janet Munro was the female lead in Hide and Seek with Ian Carmichael and A Jolly Bad Fellow with Leo McKern, one of her alumni from The Day the Earth Caught Fire.
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Janet Munro was inactive in her profession for a few years in order to concentrate on raising a family but returned to acting after her second marriage to Ian Hendry ended in 1968.
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Janet Munro appeared in episodes of Vendetta, and Thirty-Minute Theatre and had a support part in Sebastian.
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Janet Munro travelled to New York to star in a TV adaptation of The Admirable Crichton.
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Janet Munro had the lead in a series, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
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Janet Munro is no longer the B picture girl next door.
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Janet Munro is a woman and her acting has power and experience of life.
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Janet Munro was married to actor Tony Wright from 1956 until 1959.
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Janet Munro married Ian Hendry in 1963; the couple had two children, Sally and Corrie.
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Janet Munro died aged 38 on 6 December 1972 on her way to hospital after collapsing at her home in Tufnell Park.
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Janet Munro's death was ruled due to a heart attack caused by chronic ischaemic heart disease.
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Janet Munro was cremated and interred at the Golders Green Crematorium.