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Janis Carter and Richard Dix in The Mark of the Whistler (1944)

Janis Carter and Chester Morris in One Way to Love (1946)

Janis Carter, Richard Lane, and Chester Morris in One Mysterious Night (1944)

Janis Carter and Matt McHugh in The Mark of the Whistler (1944)

Robert Young, Janis Carter, and Barbara Hale in And Baby Makes Three (1949)

Janis Carter, Richard Dix, and Eddie Parker in The Power of the Whistler (1945)

Janis Carter, Richard Dix, and Jeff Donnell in The Power of the Whistler (1945)

Don Ameche, Patricia Barry, Janis Carter, Dorothy Lamour, Jeanne Manet, and Willard Parker in Slightly French (1949)

Glenn Ford and Janis Carter in Framed (1947)

Robert Young and Janis Carter in The Half-Breed (1952)

Randolph Scott and Janis Carter in Santa Fe (1951)

Janet Blair, Janis Carter, and Franchot Tone in I Love Trouble (1948)

Janis Carter and Barry Sullivan in Framed (1947)

Janis Carter and William Gargan in Night Editor (1946)

Janis Carter and Jeff Donnell in The Power of the Whistler (1945)

Robert Young and Janis Carter in And Baby Makes Three (1949)

Warner Anderson and Janis Carter in Santa Fe (1951)

Patti Brill, Janis Carter, Inez Cooper, Muriel Goodspeed, Anne Jeffreys, Jeanette MacDonald, Mona Maris, Pamela Randell, Betty Rome, Marion Rosamond, Virginia Rees, Elinor Davenport, and Burgren Sisters' Quartet in I Married an Angel (1942)

Janis Carter, James Ellison, and Virginia Gilmore in That Other Woman (1942)

Ray Milland and Janis Carter in A Woman of Distinction (1950)

Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, and Janis Carter in My Forbidden Past (1951)

Binnie Barnes, Edward Everett Horton, Janis Carter, Inez Cooper, Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald, Mona Maris, Reginald Owen, Hunt Stromberg, and W.S. Van Dyke in I Married an Angel (1942)

Janis Carter in The Fighting Guardsman (1945)

Hugh Herbert, Janis Carter, Marguerite Chapman, Chester Morris, and Willard Parker in One Way to Love (1946)

Janis Carter, Marguerite Chapman, Chester Morris, and Willard Parker in One Way to Love (1946)

Janis Carter and Chester Morris in One Mysterious Night (1944)

Janis Carter and Richard Dix in The Power of the Whistler (1945)

Tala Birell, Janis Carter, Richard Dix, Jeff Donnell, and Loren Tindall in The Power of the Whistler (1945)

Paul Guilfoyle, Janis Carter, and Richard Dix in The Mark of the Whistler (1944)

Janis Carter, Chester Morris, and George E. Stone in One Mysterious Night (1944)

Binnie Barnes, Janis Carter, Inez Cooper, Nelson Eddy, Anne Jeffreys, Jeanette MacDonald, and Mona Maris in I Married an Angel (1942)

John Wayne, Janis Carter, and Robert Ryan in Flying Leathernecks (1951)

John Abbott, Janis Carter, and Gerald Mohr in The Notorious Lone Wolf (1946)

Janis Carter, Arthur Lake, Lynne Roberts, Frank Sully, and Matt Willis in The Ghost That Walks Alone (1944)

After graduating with two degrees (arts and music) from Mather College (Western Reserve) in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1935, Janis headed to New York with aspirations of embarking on a musical career in opera. Supporting herself by waitressing, singing in churches, modeling (Conover) and writing radio scripts, she won an audition with the Met. However, a case of nerves assured her failure and an end to that ambition. Landing on her feet, she got a part in the Broadway musical I Married An Angel. DuBarry Was A Lady soon followed and then Panama Hattie, in which she had a solo number. Darryl Zanuck of 20th Century-Fox attended the opening night and was impressed enough with Janis to offer her a contract. She arrived in Hollywood in February 1941 and stayed for 12 years, making more than 30 movies for 20th Century-Fox, MGM, Columbia, and RKO. After leaving Hollywood for good, Janis headed back to New York and began a career working in television. She acted in numerous shows, both drama and comedy, and in 1954 became the hostess of the NBC quiz show Feather Your Nest, working with Bud Collyer. In 1956, Janis married Julius Stulman and retired from show business. With the same enthusiasm she had shown in other areas of her life, she involved herself in cultural activities of her community, serving in various capacities throughout the years, primarily in Sarasota, Florida.

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