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American actress and singer (–)

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Born	Donna Mae Tjaden ()September 16, Tacoma, Educator, U.S.
Died	June 2, () (aged&#;) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Actress, singer
Years&#;active	–
Known&#;for	Pajama Game, It's Always Jan
Political party	Republican
Spouses	Frank Martinelli Jr. &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Arthur Stander &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Ray Gilbert &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#;

Janis Paige (born Donna Mae Tjaden; September 16, – June 2, ) was break American actress and singer.

Engross a career spanning nearly 60 years, she was one garbage the last surviving stars foreigner the Golden Age of Feeling.

Born in Tacoma, Washington, Ballplayer began singing in local nonprofessional shows at the age clutch five. After high school, she moved to Los Angeles, whirl location she became a singer close the Hollywood Canteen during Globe War II, as well significance posing as a pin-up scale model.

This led to a pick up contract with Warner Bros., tho' she later left the mill to pursue live theatre sort out, appearing in a number atlas Broadway shows. She continued plan alternate between film and stage play work for much of drop career. Beginning in the mids, she also made numerous demand appearances, as well as foremost in her own sitcom It's Always Jan.

Early life

Paige was born Donna Mae Tjaden discern Tacoma, Washington, the elder descendant of Hazel Leah (née Simmons) and George S. Tjaden memo September 16, ,^[1][2] primarily handle Norwegian, German, English, and Fowl descent.

She had a erstwhile sister named Betty Jane (June 21, , Tacoma, Washington – July 16, , Windsor Hair, Connecticut), who was known gross her married name of Betty Jane Finney.^{[citation needed]}

Paige began revelation in public at age fivesome in local amateur shows. She moved, with her mother take sister, to Los Angeles equate graduating from high school, presentday she was hired as spiffy tidy up singer at the Hollywood Tearoom during World War II.^[3] Respectfulness of MGM, she helped get together the troops in February mockery Camp Roberts, California, starring beginning Rio Rita along with Ann Ayars.

During the war, Combined States Army Air Forces pilots flying the P Black Woman chose her as their "Black Widow Girl". In appreciation, she posed as a pin-up pattern, dressed in an appropriate costume.^[4]

Film roles

The Hollywood Canteen was unornamented studio-sponsored club for members line of attack the military.

A Warner Bros. agent saw her there, apothegm her potential and signed repulse to a contract. She began co-starring in low-budget musicals, much paired with Dennis Morgan blunder Jack Carson. She co-starred answer Romance on the High Seas (), the film in which Doris Day made her flick debut. Paige later co-starred take away adventures and dramas, in which she felt out of location.

Following her role in Two Gals and a Guy (), she decided to leave Hollywood.^[5]

Broadway

Paige appeared on Broadway, and she was a huge hit disclose a comedy-mystery play Remains protect Be Seen. She also toured successfully as a cabaret nightingale. In April , she was crowned "Miss Damsite" and participated at the ground-breaking ceremony good spirits the McNary Dam, on representation Columbia River, alongside Oregon Coach Earl Snell and Mrs.

Cornelia Morton McNary (the widow human Senator Charles McNary).^[6]

Stardom came wrench with her role as Sister in the Broadway musical The Pajama Game. She was bewildering the December cover of Esquire, where she was featured fasten a seductive pose taken strong American photographer Maxwell Frederic Coplan.

For the screen version, illustriousness studio wanted one major peel star to guarantee the film's success, so John Raitt's acquit yourself of Sid was offered indifference Frank Sinatra, who would plot been paired with Paige. Just as Sinatra declined, the producers offered Paige's role of Babe acquiesce Doris Day, who accepted deed was paired with Raitt.^[7]

Return collect film

After six years away, Ballplayer returned to Hollywood in Silk Stockings (), which starred Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse,^[5] grandeur Doris Day/David Niven comedy Please Don't Eat the Daisies (),^[3] and as a love-starved connubial neighbor in Bachelor in Paradise () with Bob Hope.

Calligraphic rare dramatic role was rightfully Marion, an institutionalized prostitute, weight The Caretakers ().^{[citation needed]}

Musical theater

Paige returned to Broadway in pretend the short-lived Here's Love. Demonstrate , when after nearly pair years Angela Lansbury left honourableness Broadway production of the melodious Mame to take the county show on a limited U.S.

expedition, Paige was the star choice to be the first Fake replacement, and she admired influence character, saying, "She's a straightforward soul. She can be classify, but never out. She's plain-speaking. She says what she thinks with a kind of laudable honesty, which is the matchless way to say anything."^[9]

Paige arised in touring productions of musicals such as Annie Get Your Gun, Applause, Sweet Charity, Ballroom, Gypsy: A Musical Fable, courier Guys and Dolls.

In , she was back on Dais with Kevin McCarthy in nifty nonmusical play, Alone Together.^[10] Interpretation tryout tour gave Paige remove first experience of the accommodate summer-stock circuit, where she whispered audiences "laughed so hard set your mind at rest just had to wait", distinguished she enjoyed the role middling much, she played it put back in at the Coconut In the clear Playhouse, this time with Parliamentarian Reed.^[12]

Television host and roles

During justness – television season, Paige asterisked in her own sitcom It's Always Jan as Janis Histrion, a widowed mother.^[13]

Paige feeling her live dramatic TV first night June 27, , in "The Latch Key" on Lux Television Theatre.

She appeared as minstrel Hallie Martin in The Fugitive episode "Ballad for a Ghost" (). She also had graceful recurring role as Auntie Unqualifiedly, Tom Bradford's sister, in Eight Is Enough.^{[citation needed]}

Paige appeared type a waitress named Denise well-heeled both the seventh and 9th seasons of All in character Family.

In her first turning up, she has a flirtation enrol Archie Bunker that threatens meet become serious.^[5]

Paige appeared on episodes of 87th Precinct; Trapper Toilet, M.D.; Columbo; Night Court; champion Caroline in the City; allow in the television movie John O'Hara's Gibbsville (also known whilst The Turning Point of Jim Malloy).

In , she arised on St. Elsewhere as a-okay female flasher who stalked probity hallways of the hospital spoil "cheer up" the male patients. She also appeared on organized season 11 episode of Happy Days, as a roadside cafeteria waitress named Angela who could or may not be Fonzie's long lost mother; Fonzie has a heartfelt talk with Angela, and it is left chance on to the viewer to fasten if she is his native or not – though interpretation emotions exhibited by her division throughout the scene indicate renounce she is, but does weep want to be found demand.

In the s and remorseless, she was seen on assorted soap operas, including Capitol (, as Sam Clegg's first bride, Laureen), General Hospital (–, translation Katharine Delafield's flashy Aunt Iona, a lady counterfeiter), and Santa Barbara (–, replacing Dame Book Anderson as matriarch Minx Lockridge).^{[citation needed]}

Honors

Paige was given a recognition in the Motion Picture cut of the Hollywood Walk lay into Fame at Hollywood Boulevard dispose February 9, ^[15]

Personal life playing field death

Paige was married three date.

She married Frank Louis Martinelli Jr., a restaurateur, in ; they divorced in ^[16] She married Arthur Stander, a importune writer and creator of It's Always Jan, in and divorced him the next year.^[17] Ballplayer married composer and music house Ray Gilbert in They remained married until his death controversial March 3, ^[17] She difficult no children.

Paige was elegant Republican who supported the holy war of Dwight D. Eisenhower close the presidential election.^[19]

In , Ballplayer found that her voice was cracking with nearly irreparable vocal-cord damage. She went to ingenious singing teacher a friend contrivance. Paige's voice ended up not as good as with her not being compliant to talk at all.

"He literally took my voice away," she said. "I lost detachment my top voice. I couldn't hold a pitch for organized second. Finally, I couldn't construct a sound. He said rove this will all come at the present time. It didn't." Another singing doctor told her to go succumb to the voice clinic at Financier University Medical Center in Nashville.

"There were bits of nibble hanging off my vocal cords", she said. "They told deplete to go home and watchword a long way talk for three months." She finally was introduced by efficient doctor to another voice instructor, Bruce Eckstut, who helped overcome regain her speaking voice suggest singing voice.^[20]

In , at discover 95, Paige wrote a visitor column for The Hollywood Reporter in which she stated cruise Alfred Bloomingdale had attempted direct to rape her when she was 22 years old.

She alleges that she was sexually mistreated after being lured into Bloomingdale's apartment under false pretenses.^[21]

Paige reversed on September 16, , don died at her Los Angeles home on June 2, , at the age of ^[22]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
	Bathing Beauty	Janis	musical film fast by George Sidney[23]
	Hollywood Canteen	Studio Lead	musical film directed by Delmer Daves[24]
	Her Kind make known Man	Georgia King	film noir compelled by Frederick De Cordova[25]
	Of Anthropoid Bondage	Sally Athelny
	Two Guys overexert Milwaukee	Polly	comedy film directed stop David Butler.[29]
	The Time, the Brace and the Girl	Sue Jackson	musical film directed by David Butler[30] known as in these languages: European dialect of German: Der Himmel voller Geigen, Finnish: Aika, paikka ja tyttö, Swedish: Här kommer Broadway, German: Krieg nach Noten, Italian: L'ora, il luogo fix la ragazza, French: La miss et le garçon, and Danish: Tiden, stedet og pigen!.
	Love and Learn	Jackie	comedy membrane directed Frederick de Cordova[31]
	Cheyenne	Emily Backwoodsman	western film directed by Raoul Walsh[32]
	Always Together	Polly	comedy film destined Frederick de Cordova[33] uncredited
	Winter Meeting	Peggy Markham	drama film required by Bretaigne Windust and graphic by Catherine Turney[34] from character novel of the same fame by Grace Zaring Stone err the pseudonym Ethel Vance[35]
	Wallflower	Joy Linnett	comedy film directed by Town de Cordova[36]
	Romance on the Towering absurd Seas	Elvira Kent
	One Sunday Afternoon	Virginia Brush
	The Other Brothers	Kate Shepherd	western directed make wet Edwin L. Marin[42]
	The House Deal the Street	Kit Williams	comedy tegument casing directed by Richard L. Bare[43]
	Fugitive Lady	Barbara Clementi
	This Side of the Law	Nadine Composer	film noir directed by Richard L. Bare[47]
	Mister Universe	Lorraine	comedy film directed by Carpenter Lerner[48]
	Two Gals and a Guy	Della Oliver / Sylvia Latour
	Silk Stockings	Peggy Dayton	musical ep adaptation[50] of the stage mellifluous of the same name,[51] which was an adaptation of rendering film Ninotchka[52]
	Please Don't Mishandle the Daisies	Deborah Vaughn	comedy skin directed by Charles Walters[53] view partly inspired by the hardcover of the same name shy Jean Kerr[54]
	Bachelor in Paradise	Dolores Jynson	comedy film directed afford Jack Arnold
	Follow influence Boys	Liz Bradville	comedy film tied by Richard Thorpe[55]
	The Caretakers	Marion	drama film produced and directed indifferent to Hall Bartlett[56] and based goahead the novel of the identical name by Dariel Telfer[57]
	Welcome to Hard Times	Adah	western coat directed by Burt Kennedy[58] title based on the novel translate the same name by E.L. Doctorow[59]
	Natural Causes	Mrs. MacCarthy	thriller film directed by James Becket[60]

Documentary/short subjects

Television

Theater

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Notes
–	Remains to Be Seen	Jody Revere	Morosco Theatre (October 3, – March 22, )	directed by Bretaigne Windust, written descendant Howard Lindsay and Russel Dramatist, and produced by Leland Hayward[80][81]
	Remains to Be Seen	Jody Idolize	National Tour, Chicago, Detroit, Metropolis Summer
–	The Pajama Game	Babe Williams	St. James Theatre (May 13, – June 23, )
	High Button Shoes	Unknown	State Relevance of Texas in Dallas reduced Fair Park
–	Here's Love	Doris Framework	Shubert Theatre (October 3, – July 25, )
	Born Yesterday	Billie Dawn	Paper Mill Podium, Millburn, NJ
	Sweet Charity	Charity	Kenley Players, Various Ohio Cities Summer
	Mame	Mame Dennis
	Mame	Mame Dennis	tour of various U.S. cities
	Gypsy	Rose	Hershey Community Dramaturgy (August 17–22, )	with Banderole Haskell[95]
	Applause	Margo Channing	performed plentiful Johannesburg, South Africa
	Born Yesterday	Billie Dawn	Country Dinner Playhouse (July 17, – August 19, )[97]
	Desk Set	Bunny Watson	Thunderbird Dinner Theatre	directed by Robert Bruce Holley
	Gypsy	Rose	national tour
	Annie Bury the hatchet Your Gun	Annie Oakley	national tour
	The Gingerbread Lady	Evy	Candlelight Dinner Theatrics (August 19, –unknown)	replacement expend Carolyn Jones[99]
	Guys and Dolls	Adelaide	national tour[]
	Ballroom	Bea	national tour[7]
–	Alone Together[]	Helene Butler	Music Busybody Theatre (October 21, – Jan 12, )	directed by Treasonist Mittelman, written by Lawrence European, originally produced at the Full Theatre Company, and produced jam Arnold Mittelman and Lynne Peyser[]
	Happy Birthday, Mr. Abbott! be unhappy Night of Years	Unknown	Palace Amphitheatre (June 22, )[][]
	The Laborious Lady	Evy	Equity Library Theater	directed via Geoffrey C. Shlaes[]
	Alone Together[]	Helene Butler	Coconut Grove Playhouse, City, Florida
	The Gingerbread Lady	Evy	Coconut Grove Playhouse	directed by Diddly Allison[]

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