Trivia

While filming the Adam Smith (1972) series in Scotland, Janet mentioned to local doctor that she was having severe stomach pains. He thought it might be an ulcer and suggested that she see her own doctor in London. Her own doctor booked her for a scan which involved the usual 10-hour fast followed by a barium meal. After the scan she was driving home and blacked out, crashing into the back of a parked car. Seat-belt use and laminated screens weren't compulsory in those days, and the impact sent her straight through the windscreen. The resulting injuries left her blind for 4 days with 130 stitches. Her surgeon was confident the facial injuries would heal eventually, leaving no scars. She had only recovered sight in one eye and she was to spend the next 6 months having treatment on her eyes. Her daughter Sally, who had been in the backseat, suffered only minor injuries.

When Janet began to walk, she would often toddle across the stage as her father, comedic entertainer Alex Munro, was performing. On one occasion he looked around to catch her making an unscheduled entrance. "Aw, look at the size of it", he exclaimed and that became his catchphrase. From then on his name appeared on posters and playbills as Alex "The Size of It.".

In her 1958 movie The Crawling Eye (1958), portraying Anne Pilgrim, she alit from a train onto a platform displaying a large poster advertising the Swiss ski resort Zermatt. Three years later she arrived in the real Zermatt to film Disney's Third Man on the Mountain (1959) with Michael Rennie and James MacArthur.

Had a brother Alex born about 1947.

Goddaughter of Frank Randle.

Born on exactly the same date as Brigitte Bardot.