1. Janis Paige continued to alternate between film and theatre work for much of her career.
23 Facts About Janis Paige
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Janis Paige had a younger sister named Betty Jane, who was known by her married name of Betty Jane Finney.
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Janis Paige began singing in public at age five in local amateur shows.
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Janis Paige moved, with her mother and sister, to Los Angeles after graduating from high school, and she was hired as a singer at the Hollywood Canteen during World War II.
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Janis Paige began co-starring in low-budget musicals, often paired with Dennis Morgan or Jack Carson.
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Janis Paige co-starred in Romance on the High Seas, the film in which Doris Day made her movie debut.
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Janis Paige later co-starred in adventures and dramas, in which she felt out of place.
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Janis Paige appeared on Broadway, and she was a huge hit in a 1951 comedy-mystery play Remains to Be Seen.
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Janis Paige was on the December 1954 cover of Esquire, where she was featured in a seductive pose taken by American photographer Maxwell Frederic Coplan.
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Janis Paige returned to Broadway in 1963 in the short-lived Here's Love.
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Janis Paige says what she thinks with a kind of marvelous honesty, which is the only way to say anything.
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Janis Paige appeared in touring productions of musicals such as Annie Get Your Gun, Applause, Sweet Charity, Ballroom, Gypsy: A Musical Fable, and Guys and Dolls.
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Janis Paige made her live dramatic TV debut June 27,1957, in "The Latch Key" on Lux Video Theatre.
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Janis Paige appeared as troubadour Hallie Martin in The Fugitive episode "Ballad for a Ghost".
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Janis Paige had a recurring role as Auntie V, Tom Bradford's sister, in Eight Is Enough.
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Janis Paige appeared as a waitress named Denise in both the seventh and ninth seasons of All in the Family.
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Janis Paige was given a star in the Motion Picture section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6624 Hollywood Boulevard on February 9,1960.
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Janis Paige married Arthur Stander, a television writer and creator of It's Always Jan, in 1956 and divorced him the next year.
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Janis Paige married composer and music publisher Ray Gilbert in 1962.
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In 2001, Janis Paige found that her voice was cracking with nearly irreparable vocal-cord damage.
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Janis Paige went to a singing teacher a friend recommended.
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Janis Paige's voice ended up worse with her not being able to talk at all.
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Janis Paige turned 100 on September 16,2022, and died at her Los Angeles home on June 2,2024, at the age of 101.