1922-09-16 ( 102 years old ) in Tacoma, Washington, USA
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.
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Natural Causes
1994-04-01
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No Man's Land
1984-05-27
The Other Woman
1983-03-22
Love at the Top
1982-01-01
Angel on My Shoulder
1980-05-11
Valentine Magic on Love Island
1980-02-15
Lanigan's Rabbi
1976-06-17
Cop on the Beat
1975-05-06
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
1975-04-12
Roberta
1969-11-06
Welcome to Hard Times
1967-04-30
The Caretakers
1963-08-21
Follow the Boys
1963-02-27
Bachelor in Paradise
1961-11-01
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1960-03-31
Silk Stockings
1957-06-28
Two Gals and a Guy
1951-07-01
Mister Universe
1951-01-10
This Side of the Law
1950-06-17
Fugitive Lady
1950-05-08
The House Across the Street
1949-09-10
The Younger Brothers
1949-05-03
One Sunday Afternoon
1948-12-25
Romance on the High Seas
1948-06-25
Wallflower
1948-06-13
Winter Meeting
1948-04-07
Always Together
1947-12-10
So You Want to Be in Pictures
1947-06-07
Cheyenne
1947-06-06
Love and Learn
1947-05-02
The Time, The Place and The Girl
1946-12-26
Two Guys from Milwaukee
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Of Human Bondage
1946-07-05
Her Kind of Man
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Hollywood Canteen
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I Won't Play
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