1. Mary Janice Rule was an American actress and psychotherapist, earning her PhD while still acting, then acting occasionally while working in her new profession.
12 Facts About Janice Rule
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Janice Rule began dancing at the Chez Paree nightclub in Chicago at age 15, which paid for ballet lessons, and was a dancer in the 1949 Broadway production of Miss Liberty.
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Janice Rule was pictured on the cover of Life magazine on January 8,1951, as being someone to watch in the entertainment industry.
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Janice Rule was troubled by the attitude toward women's beauty at the studios in the early 1950s: "Because I was afraid of being robbed of my individuality, I fought with the makeup people, the hairdressers, and I didn't understand problems of the publicity department," she was reported as saying in 1957.
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Janice Rule was in the original 1953 Broadway cast of William Inge's Picnic, whose company included Paul Newman in his Broadway debut.
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Janice Rule played Helen Foley in The Twilight Zone S1 E29 "Nightmare as a Child" which aired on April 29,1960.
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Janice Rule appeared as different characters in three episodes of Route 66.
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Janice Rule acted as both Barbara Webb and Barbara Wells with David Janssen in two episodes of The Fugitive entitled "Wife Killer" and "The Walls of Night".
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Janice Rule starred, second billing to Yul Brynner, in the western film Invitation to a Gunfighter.
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Janice Rule had a brief engagement to Farley Granger in 1956.
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Janice Rule began her formal studies in 1973, specialising in treating her fellow actors, and received her PhD 10 years later from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute in Los Angeles.
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Janice Rule practised in New York and Los Angeles, and continued to act occasionally until her death from a cerebral hemorrhage in 2003.