Janis Paige
Nacimiento : 1922-09-16, Tacoma, Washington, USA
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Janis Paige (born as Donna Mae Tjaden, September 16, 1922, Tacoma, Washington) is 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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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who lived through it, creating a first-hand archive of personal backstage stories and memories. The new documentary is the long-awaited sequel to late filmmaker Rick McKay’s award-winning 2003 film Broadway: The Golden Age, continuing the saga into the '60s and '70s and spotlighting beloved classic Broadway shows including Once Upon a Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie, Barefoot in the Park, Pippin, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Chicago, and 42nd Street. Featuring a galaxy of stars including Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Glenn Close, André De Shields, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, and many more, the film also includes rare archival photos and never-before-seen footage both onstage and off.
WWII hero with the 4th Emergency Rescue Squadron, Lt. Royal Stratton, leads a deadly mission to save the lives of nine downed airmen adrift in enemy waters of a war-torn South Pacific. Immersive cinematography and gripping action, mixed with firsthand accounts and historical images, showcase the valor of this squadron who faced overwhelming odds to bring their brothers home.
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During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the entertainer’s life through his personal archives and clips from his classic films.
Herself
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
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El tercer documental de la trilogía en el que se pueden ver interesantes tomas falsas protagonizadas por Judy Garland o Lena Horne. Anteriores estrellas musicales de la MGM como Gene Kelly presentan los números musicales.
Mrs. MacCarthy
An American links her mothers death in Bankok to a plot involving Vietnamese refugees.
Self
Biographical portrait of one of Broadway's most brilliant songwriters. Told through the use of archival material and interviews with the rich and famous that knew him, this portrait concentrates on his career and his public life events.
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Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
Maggie Hodiak
Sheriff Stella Stevens uses her wiles and the help of her three resourceful daughters -- one by each of her previous husbands -- to rope in a notorious desperado and a band of foreign revolutionaries in this light-hearted Western.
Mrs. barnes
Un hombre de cincuenta años, infeliz en su matrimonio con una mujer joven, corteja a una abuela divorciada.
Dolly Blaine
A small-time Chicago hood, now deceased, gets a second chance at life by striking a bargain with the Devil to inhabit and attempt to corrupt a totally honest politician.
Madge
Janis Paige presides over the proceedings at a posh resort, using magical powers to help eight attractive, amiable vacationers discover one another, aided by her nephew and niece in this unsold pilot variation of "Fantasy Island."
Kate Lanigan
In this pilot film, an Irish Catholic police chief and a Jewish rabbi join together to solve the murder of a housekeeper whose body was discovered by the front entrance of the rabbi's synagogue.
Irene
An aging street cop goes after a gang of toughs involved in several robbery-rapes on his beat in this pilot (a spin-off from "Police Story") for the 1975-76 series. The veteran cop concept also was the basis for "The Blue Knight" series at the same time — and that, too, was based on a Joseph Wambaugh creation. Also known as "The Return of Joe Forrester."
Lonnie
The son of a small-town doctor returns to his hometown after being kicked out of Yale, and begins a new career on the town's newspaper.
Adah
Un extraño aterroriza a la gente de los asentamientos de una pequeña población, llegando a matar incluso a Fee, el fundador de la ciudad...
Marion
El joven doctor MacLeod ha desarrollado un nuevo método para tratar casos mentales y está esperando encontrar al paciente perfecto para probar su eficacia. Tiene en contra a otros miembros del consejo hospitalario, incluido el doctor Harrington, un veterano colega de mucha reputación, y de Lucretia Terry, la directora que dirige la institución con mano de hierro. Lorna Melford, una nueva paciente, será la escogida por el doctor MacLeod para probar el nuevo método. (FILMAFFINITY)
Liz
Bonnie, Toni, Michele y Liz son cuatro mujeres que pasan unos días en la Riviera francesa. Allí serán seducidas por unos marineros. Cuando el buque de guerra en el que estos viajaban será desviado desde Cannes hacia Santa Margarita las jóvenes irán tras ellos. La búsqueda y el posterior encuentro con los muchachos provocará multitud de situaciones cómicas. Secuela de 'Where The Boys Are', film que dirigió en 1960 Henry Levin y que también contaba como protagonistas con las actrices Connie Francis y Paula Prentiss.
Dolores Jynson
Un famoso escritor de novelas femeninas, solterón empedernido, se retira a un pueblo de California para escribir sobre las mujeres. Allí, todas las casadas se fijan en el forastero, pero él se queda prendado de la única soltera, que hará lo posible para llevarlo al altar
Deborah Vaughn
Un crítico teatral y su familia (mujer, cuatro hijos y un perro) se ven obligados a abandonar Nueva York, al vencer su contrato de alquiler, y buscar una casa en las afueras lejos del bullicio de la gran ciudad. El problema es que el cambio de ambiente afecta a las relaciones familiares.
Peggy Dayton
Un compositor ruso que vive en París recibe el encargo de una productora norteamericana para que ponga música a una de sus películas. Remake en versión musical del clásico "Ninotchka"
Della Oliver / Sylvia Latour
A singing couple gets their own television show, and the strains of putting on a TV show every week starts to jeopardize their relationship.
Lorraine
A gullible and honest "Mr. Universe" winner, Tommy Tomkins, gets added to the stable of a con-man and a wrestling prompter.
Nadine Taylor
A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment.
Barbara Clementi
A man drives his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. One insurance investigator is not so sure it was an accident or suicide and gets 48 hours to prove his case.
Kit Williams
Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.
Kate Shepherd
Brothers who rode with a notorious outlaw gang led by Frank and Jesse James decide to go straight and try to get pardons so they can return to a law-abiding life.
Virginia Brush
The third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy Malone despite his constant infatuation with sexy flirt Janis Paige. Filmed previously in 1933 ("One Sunday Afternoon") and 1941 ("The Strawberry Blonde").
Mrs. Elvira Kent
Una mujer sospecha que su marido se interesa por otras, pero él sospecha lo mismo de ella. Por culpa de sus negocios, él tiene que cancelar siempre sus vacaciones de aniversario y dejar que su mujer se vaya sola. En una ocasión, para poder espiar a su marido, ella contrata a una cantante de cabaret (Doris Day) para que viaje a América del Sur en su lugar. Mientras tanto, su esposo contrata a un detective (Jack Carson) para vigilar a su esposa durante su viaje.
Joy Linnett
Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy.
Peggy Markham
A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.
Polly (uncredited)
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
Herself (uncredited)
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
Emily Carson
Un jugador se propone capturar al bandido responsable de varios atracos a diligencias. Raoul Walsh dirige este western de 1947 con las estrellas Dennis Morgan y Jane Wyman.
Jackie
A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.
Sue Jackson
The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub next door to the Cassels' home. The club's owners--Steve, a handsome ladies' man, and Jeff, his clownish sidekick--hatch a plan to keep the club open. Steve arranges to meet--and woo--Vicki and then invite her and her uncle to the club. When Vicki's snobbish aunt and the manager discover that Vicki now favors popular music over the classics, they arrange to get the club closed. But that doesn't keep Steve and Jeff down. Instead, they decide to put on a Broadway show if they can get a backer. They find their "angel" in Vicki's uncle who agrees to finance the show only if Vicki is the leading lady. But again, Vicki's aunt and manager may be the spoiler in everyone's plans.
Polly
Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the microphone is live, the two stage a debate on democracy versus monarchy broadcast back to the Prince's homeland. A plebiscite there puts Henry out of a job. Flying to Milwaukee to become a beer salesman, he meets Bacall on the seat next to his, but a tap on his shoulder means he must give up his seat (and dream) to Bogie.
Sally Athelny
Philip, un médico aficionado a la pintura, se enamora locamente de una camarera, pero ella lo rechaza. Éste será el punto de partida de muchas desdichas.
Georgia King
A singer can't choose between a charismatic gangster and an honest newspaperman.
Studio Guide
El "Hollywwod Canteen" era un club que la Warner Bros creó durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) para que los soldados que estaban de permiso pudieran divertirse con el espectáculo y codearse con los actores de moda. Dos soldados pasan tres noches en el club: uno de ellos sueña con besar a Joan Leslie, su amor imposible durante la guerra del Pacífico. John Garfield favorece el encuentro.
Kim Karol / Sally
In this Oscar-winning short film, a Marine, Joe Fingers, on a South Sea island during World War II, tells tales of the influence he's had on various personalities. In the words of one of his buddies, he's either the biggest liar in the world or the most important man in show business.
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Uno de los musicales “acuáticos” más famosos de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, con Esther Williams en el papel de una estudiante enamorada de un compositor de canciones (Red Skelton) mientras ensaya en la piscina bellas coreografías de danza sincronizada. Con numerosas y espectaculares escenas de ballet acuático.
