Janis Carter

October 10, 1913 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Janis Carter (October 10, 1913 — July 30, 1994) was a film and television actress working in the 1940s and 1950s.

After attending Mather College in Cleveland, Ohio, Carter headed to New York in an attempt to start an opera career. Although unsuccessful in opera, she was working on Broadway where she was spotted on stage by Darryl F. Zanuck who signed her to a movie deal.

Often works with

Paul E. Burns
4 titles together
Framed, The Woman on Pier 13, Santa Fe
Walter Baldwin
3 titles together
Framed, The Mark of the Whistler, The Missing Juror
Al Bridge
3 titles together
Framed, The Missing Juror, A Woman of Distinction
Harry Tyler
3 titles together
Santa Fe, Night Editor, A Woman of Distinction
Adele Jergens
3 titles together
I Love Trouble, A Thousand and One Nights, Slightly French
Robert Ryan
2 titles together
Flying Leathernecks, The Woman on Pier 13

Full filmography · 35

The Sergeant and the Spy
as Gizelle
1954
The Half-Breed
as Helen Dowling
1952
Flying Leathernecks
as Joan Kirby
19515.8
My Forbidden Past
as Corinne Lucas
19515.5
Santa Fe
as Judith Chandler
19516.8
The Woman on Pier 13
as Christine Norman
19505.3
A Woman of Distinction
as Teddy Evans
1950
And Baby Makes Three
as Wanda York
1949
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
as Peggy Donato
1949
Slightly French
as Louisa Gayle
1949
I Love Trouble
as Mrs. Caprillo
19486.5
Framed
as Paula Craig
19476.5