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Janis Paige
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Paige, publicity picture for MGM studios in 1944
Born
Donna Mae Tjaden

(1922-09-16) September 16, 1922 (age 101)
Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
Occupation(s)Actress, singer
Years active1944–2001
Known for Pajama Game , It's Always Jan
Political party Republican
Spouses
  • Frank Martinelli Jr.
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    (m. 1947;div. 1951)​
  • Arthur Stander
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    (m. 1956;div. 1957)​
  • ​
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    (m. 1962;died 1976)​

Janis Paige (born Donna Mae Tjaden; September 16, 1922) is an American retired actress and singer. With a career spanning nearly 60 years, she is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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Born in Tacoma, Washington, Paige began singing in local amateur shows at the age of five. After high school, she moved to Los Angeles, where she became a singer at the Hollywood Canteen during World War II, as well as posing as a pin-up model.

This led to a film contract with Warner Bros., although she later left the studio to pursue live theatre work, appearing in a number of Broadway shows. She continued to alternate between film and theatre work for much of her career. Beginning in the mid-1950s, she also made numerous television appearances, as well as starring in her own sitcom It's Always Jan .

Janis Paige in 1944 Janis Paige by Bert Six, c. 1944.jpg
Janis Paige in 1944

Early life

Paige was born Donna Mae Tjaden in Tacoma, Washington, the only child of Hazel Leah (nee Simmons) and George S. Tjaden on September 16, 1922, [1] [2] primarily of Norwegian, German, English, and Cornish descent.

She began singing in public at age five in local amateur shows. She moved to Los Angeles after graduating from high school, and she was hired as a singer at the Hollywood Canteen during World War II. [3] During the war, United States Army Air Forces pilots flying the P-61 Black Widow chose her as their "Black Widow Girl". In appreciation, she posed as a pin-up model, dressed in an appropriate costume. [4]

Film roles

The Hollywood Canteen was a studio-sponsored club for members of the military. A Warner Bros. agent saw her potential and signed her to a contract. She began co-starring in low-budget musicals, often paired with Dennis Morgan or Jack Carson. She co-starred in Romance on the High Seas (1948), the film in which Doris Day made her movie debut. Paige later co-starred in adventures and dramas, in which she felt out of place. Following her role in Two Gals and a Guy (1951), she decided to leave Hollywood. [5]

Broadway

Paige appeared on Broadway, and she was a huge hit in a 1951 comedy-mystery play Remains to Be Seen . She also toured successfully as a cabaret singer. In April 1947, she was crowned "Miss Damsite" and participated at the ground-breaking ceremony for the McNary Dam, on the Columbia River, alongside Cornelia Morton McNary, Senator Charles McNary's widow, and Oregon Governor Earl Snell. [6]

Stardom came in 1954 with her role as Babe in the Broadway musical The Pajama Game . She was on the December 1954 cover of Esquire, where she was featured in a seductive pose taken by American photographer Maxwell Frederic Coplan. For the screen version, the studio wanted one major movie star to guarantee the film's success, so John Raitt's role of Sid was offered to Frank Sinatra, who would have been paired with Paige. When Sinatra declined, the producers offered Paige's role of Babe to Doris Day, who accepted and was paired with Raitt. [7]

Return to film

After six years away, Paige returned to Hollywood in Silk Stockings (1957), which starred Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, [5] the Doris Day/David Niven comedy Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960), [3] and as a love-starved married neighbor in Bachelor in Paradise (1961) with Bob Hope. A rare dramatic role was as Marion, an institutionalized prostitute, in The Caretakers (1963).

Paige with dog Squeakie in 1960 Janis Paige and Squeakie, 1960.jpg
Paige with dog Squeakie in 1960

Musical theater

Paige returned to Broadway in 1963 in the short-lived Here's Love . In 1968, when after nearly two years Angela Lansbury left the Broadway production of the musical Mame to take the show on a limited U.S. tour, Paige was the star chosen to be the first Broadway replacement, [8] and she admired the character, saying, "She's a free soul. She can be down, but never out. She's unbigoted. She says what she thinks with a kind of marvelous honesty, which is the only way to say anything." [9]

Paige appeared in touring productions of musicals such as Annie Get Your Gun , Applause , Sweet Charity , Ballroom , Gypsy: A Musical Fable , and Guys and Dolls . In 1984, she was back on Broadway with Kevin McCarthy in a nonmusical play, Alone Together. [10] The tryout tour gave Paige her first experience of the eastern summer-stock circuit, where she said audiences "laughed so hard you just had to wait", [11] and she enjoyed the role so much, she played it again in 1988 at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, this time with Robert Reed. [12]

Television host and roles

During the 1955–1956 television season, Paige starred in her own sitcom It's Always Jan as Janis Stewart, a widowed mother. [13]

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Janis Paige in It's Always Jan

Paige made her live dramatic TV debut June 27, 1957 in "The Latch Key" on Lux Video Theatre . [14] She appeared as troubadour Hallie Martin in The Fugitive episode "Ballad for a Ghost" (1964). She also had a recurring role as Auntie V, Tom Bradford's sister, in Eight Is Enough .

Paige appeared as a waitress named Denise in both the seventh and ninth seasons of All in the Family . In her first appearance, she has a flirtation with Archie Bunker that threatens to become serious. [5]

Paige appeared on episodes of 87th Precinct ; Trapper John, M.D. ; Columbo ; Night Court ; Caroline in the City ; and in the 1975 television movie John O'Hara's Gibbsville (also known as The Turning Point of Jim Malloy). In 1982, she appeared on St. Elsewhere as a female flasher who stalked the hallways of the hospital to "cheer up" the male patients. She also appeared on a season 11 episode of Happy Days, as a roadside diner waitress named Angela who may or may not be Fonzie's long lost mother; Fonzie has a heartfelt talk with Angela, and it is left up to the viewer to determine if she is his mother or not - though the emotions exhibited by her character throughout the scene indicate that she is, but does not want to be found out. In the 1980s and 1990s, she was seen on the Capitol (1987, as Sam Clegg's first wife, Laureen), General Hospital (1989–1990, as Katharine Delafield's flashy Aunt Iona, a lady counterfeiter), and Santa Barbara (1990–1993, replacing Dame Judith Anderson as matriarch Minx Lockridge).

Honors

Paige was given a star in the Motion Picture section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6624 Hollywood Boulevard on February 9, 1960. [15]

Personal life

Paige has been married three times. She married Frank Louis Martinelli Jr., a restaurateur, in 1947; they divorced in 1951. [16] She married Arthur Stander, a television writer and creator of It's Always Jan, in 1956 and divorced him the next year. [17] [18] Paige married composer and music publisher Ray Gilbert in 1962. They remained married until his death on March 3, 1976. [17] All of Paige's marriages were childless.

Paige is a Republican who supported the campaign of Dwight Eisenhower during the 1952 presidential election. [19]

In 2001, Paige found that her voice was cracking with nearly irreparable vocal-cord damage. She went to a singing teacher a friend recommended. Paige's voice ended up worse with her not being able to talk at all. "He literally took my voice away," she said. "I lost all my top voice. I couldn't hold a pitch for a second. Finally, I couldn't make a sound. He said that this will all come back. It didn't." Another singing teacher told her to go to the voice clinic at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. "There were bits of skin hanging off my vocal cords", she said. "They told me to go home and not talk for three months." She finally was introduced by a doctor to another voice teacher, Bruce Eckstut, who helped her regain her speaking voice and singing voice. [20]

In 2017, Paige wrote a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter in which she stated that Alfred Bloomingdale had attempted to rape her when she was 22 years old. She alleges that she was sexually assaulted after being lured into Bloomingdale's apartment under false pretenses. [21]

Paige turned 100 in 2022.

Filmography

Paige (pictured left), with Lana Turner and Bob Hope in 1960 Lana Turner, Bob Hope and Janis Paige, 1960.jpg
Paige (pictured left), with Lana Turner and Bob Hope in 1960

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1944 Bathing Beauty Janismusical film directed by George Sidney [22]
Hollywood Canteen Studio Guidemusical film directed by Delmer Daves [23]
1946 Her Kind of Man Georgia Kingfilm noir directed by Frederick De Cordova [24]
Of Human Bondage Sally Athelny
Two Guys from Milwaukee Pollycomedy film directed by David Butler. [28]
The Time, the Place and the Girl Sue Jackson
  • musical film directed by David Butler [29]
  • known as in these languages: Austrian 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 e la ragazza, French: La fille et le garçon, and Danish: Tiden, stedet og pigen!.
1947 Love and Learn Jackiecomedy film directed Frederick de Cordova [30]
Cheyenne Emily Carsonwestern film directed by Raoul Walsh [31]
Always Together Polly
  • comedy film directed Frederick de Cordova [32]
  • uncredited
1948 Winter Meeting Peggy Markhamdrama film directed by Bretaigne Windust and written by Catherine Turney [33] from the novel of the same title by Grace Zaring Stone under the pseudonym Ethel Vance [34]
Wallflower Joy Linnettcomedy film directed by Frederick de Cordova [35]
Romance on the High Seas Elvira Kent
One Sunday Afternoon Virginia Brush
  • musical film directed by Raoul Walsh [38]
  • based on James Hagan's play of the same name, which was produced on Broadway in 1933 [39] [40]
1949 The Younger Brothers Kate Shepherdwestern directed by Edwin L. Marin [41]
The House Across the Street Kit Williamscomedy film directed by Richard L. Bare [42]
1950 Fugitive Lady Barbara Clementi
This Side of the Law Nadine Taylorfilm noir directed by Richard L. Bare [45] [46]
1951 Mister Universe Lorrainecomedy film directed by Joseph Lerner [47]
Two Gals and a Guy Della Oliver / Sylvia Latour
1957 Silk Stockings Peggy Daytonmusical film adaptation [49] of the 1955 stage musical of the same name, [50] which was an adaptation of the film Ninotchka [51]
1960 Please Don't Eat the Daisies Deborah Vaughncomedy film directed by Charles Walters [52] and partly inspired by the book of the same name by Jean Kerr [53]
1961 Bachelor in Paradise Dolores Jynsoncomedy film directed by Jack Arnold
1963 Follow the Boys Liz Bradvillecomedy film directed by Richard Thorpe [54]
The Caretakers Mariondrama film produced and directed by Hall Bartlett [55] and based on the novel of the same name by Dariel Telfer [56]
1967 Welcome to Hard Times Adahwestern film directed by Burt Kennedy [57] and based on the novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow [58]
1994 Natural Causes Mrs. MacCarthythriller film directed by James Becket [59]

Documentary/short subjects

YearTitleRoleNotes
1944 I Won't Play Kim Karol / Sallyshort film directed by Crane Wilbur [60]
1947 So You Want to Be in Pictures Herself
2003 Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There Herselfdocumentary film by Rick McKay [62]
2021Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue MissionHerselfdocumentary film by Christopher Johnson and Mariana Coku

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1949–1950 Bonnie Maid's Versatile Varieties herself
  • contract role
  • "Bonnie Maid" dressed in plaid kilts for sponsor Bonnie Maid Linoleum
1953 Plymouth Playhouse guestepisode: "Baby and Me"
1954 Philip Morris Playhouse guestepisode: "Make Me Happy, Make Me Sad"
1955–1956 It's Always Jan Jan Stewart26 episodes
1957 Lux Video Theatre Irisepisode: "The Latch Key"
Studio 57 guestEpisode: "One of the Family"
1958 Schlitz Playhouse Bebe Evansepisode: "Home Again"
Shower of Stars herselfepisode: "Episode #4.7"
Roberta ScharwenkaTV film directed by Ed Greenberg and Dick McDonough [63]
1959 The Red Skelton Show School Teacherepisode: "Bashful Clem"
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse The Redheadepisode: "Chez Rouge"
Andy Williams Show herselfJuly 7, 1959, episode
1960The Secret World of Eddie HodgesCircus StarTV film and musical directed by Norman Jewison
Maisie Maisie Ravier TV film directed by Edward Ludwig and based on Wilson Collison's novel Dark Dame novel [64] [65]
Hooray for Loveleading actressTV film and musical directed by Burt Shevelove
The Ann Sothern Show Edithepisode: "The Girls"
1961 Wagon Train Nellie Jeffersonepisode: "The Nellie Jefferson Story"
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show Kathy Hewittepisode: "Happiest Day"
1962 87th Precinct Cheryl Andersonepisode: "Girl in the Case"
Alcoa Premiere Connie Rankinepisode: "Blues for a Hanging"
The Red Skelton ShowMrs. Cavendishepisode: "Ten Baby Fingers and 12 Baby Toes"
1963 The Dick Powell Theater Lavernepisode: "Last of the Private Eyes"
1964 Burke's Law Sharon McCauleyepisode: "Who Killed the Swinger on a Hook?"
The Fugitive Hallie Martinepisode: "Ballad for a Ghost"
1965The Red Skelton ShowHatta Mariepisode: "Dial 'O' for Nothing"
1969 Roberta ScharwenkaTV film directed by John Kennedy and Dick McDonough [63]
1971 Sarge Marian Hartepisode: "Psst! Wanna Buy a Dirty Picture?"
1972 Columbo Goldie Williamsonepisode: "Blueprint for Murder"
Banacek Lydiaepisode: "To Steal a King"
1973 Mannix Georgia Durianepisode: "A Way to Dusty Death"
1974 Police Story Harry's Wifeepisode: "A Dangerous Age"
1975 Gibbsville Lonnie
Police Story Irene
Doc guestepisode: "The Other Woman"
Police StoryMrs. Driscollepisode: "Vice: 24 Hours"
1976 The Mary Tyler Moore Show Charlene Maguireepisode: "Menage-a-Lou"
All in the Family Denise2 episodes
All's Fair Barbaraepispde: "Jealousy"
The Nancy Walker Show guestepisode: "Dear Dr. Dora"
1976–1977 Lanigan's Rabbi Kate Laniga5 episodes
1977 The Betty White Show Wilmaepisode: "Mitzi's Cousin"
1977–1980 Eight Is Enough Aunt Vivian5 episodes
1978 The Love Boat Phyllis Morrisonepisode: "A Selfless Love / The Nubile Nurse / Parents Know Best"
Alice Ruthepisode: "The Cuban Connection"
Fantasy Island Charlotteepisode: "The Beachcomber / The Last Whodunit"
Hawaii Five-O Minnie Cahoonepisode: "The Case Against Philip Christie"
Charlie's Angels Joan Sayersepisode: "Angels Ahoy"
The Rockford Files Miriamepisode: "A Three-Day Affair with a Thirty-Day Escrow"
All in the FamilyDeniseepisode: "Return of the Waitress"
1980Valentine Magic on Love IslandMadgeTV film directed by Earl Bellamy [68]
Angel on My Shoulder Dolly BlaineTV film directed by John Berry [69]
1981Fantasy IslandMabel Martinepisode: "High Off the Hog / Reprisal"
Happy Days Angelaepisode: "Mother and Child Reunion"
Bret Maverick Mandy Packer2 episodes
Flamingo Road Jennyepisode: "The Powers That Be"
Lewis & Clark Roseepisode: "The Family Affair"
1982 Too Close for Comfort Irene Millerepisode: "The Last Weekend"
Romance Theatre Estelle5 episodes
1983 Matt Houston Lauren Calderepisode: "The Purrfect Crime"
St. Elsewhere Dee Mackalusoepisode: "Remission"
Gun Shy Nettie McCoy
Fantasy IslandBrian's Motherepisode: "The Devil Stick / Touch and Go"
The Other Woman Mrs. BarnesTV film directed by Melville Shavelson [70] [71] [72] [73] [74]
Baby Makes Five Blanche Riddle5 episodes [75]
Trauma Center guestepisode: "Trail's End"
1984 Night Court Eleanor Brandonepisode: "Welcome Back, Momma"
No Man's Land Maggie HodiakTV film directed by Rod Holcomb [76]
We Think the World Is RoundNina (voice)TV film directed by Rudy Larriva
1985RockhopperHelen LarabeeTV film directed by Bill Bixby [77]
1985–1986 Trapper John, M.D. Catherine Hackett15 episodes
1987 Capitol Laureen Cleggepisode: "Episode #1.1268"
1989 Mission: Impossible Katherine Fosterepisode: "The Haunting"
General Hospital Aunt Iona Huntington recurring role
1990 Shades of L.A. Ruth Lockwoodepisode: "Where There's No Will, There's a Weigh-In"
1990–1993 Santa Barbara Minx Lockridge 106 episodes
1992 Room for Two Charlotte Agnolettiepisode: "Whose Mouth Is It Anyway?"
1995 Legend Delilah Prattepisode: "Clueless in San Francisco"
1997 Caroline in the City Lorettaepisode: "Caroline and the Bad Trip"
2001 Family Law Ann Foxepisode: "The Quality of Mercy"

Theater

YearTitleRoleVenueNotes
1951–1952Remains to Be SeenJody Revere Morosco Theatre (October 3, 1951 – March 22, 1952)directed by Bretaigne Windust, written by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, and produced by Leland Hayward [78] [79]
1952Remains to Be SeenJody RevereNational Tour, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland Summer 1952
1954–1955 The Pajama Game Babe Williams [80] St. James Theatre (May 13, 1954 – June 23, 1955)
1959 High Button Shoes Unknown State Fair of Texas in Dallas at Fair Park [83]
1963–1964 Here's Love Doris Walker Shubert Theatre (October 3, 1963 – July 25, 1964)
1967Born YesterdayBillie DawnPaper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, NJ
1967Sweet CharityCharityKenley Players, Various Ohio Cities Summer 1967
1968 Mame Mame Dennis [90]
1969 Mame Mame Dennis [90] tour of various U.S. cities
1970 Gypsy Mama RoseHershey Community Theater (August 17–22, 1970)with Jack Haskell [93]
1971 Applause Margo Channingperformed in Johannesburg, South Africa [94]
1973 Born Yesterday Billie DawnCountry Dinner Playhouse (July 17, 1973 – August 19, 1973) [95]
1974 Desk Set Bunny Watson [96] Thunderbird Dinner Theatre [96] directed by Robert Bruce Holley [96]
1974 Gypsy Mama Rosenational tour
1975 Annie Get Your Gun Annie Oakley national tour [94]
1975 The Gingerbread Lady EvyCandlelight Dinner Playhouse (August 19, 1975–unknown)replacement for Carolyn Jones [97]
1978 Guys and Dolls Adelaidenational tour [98]
1979 Ballroom Beanational tour [7]
1984–1985Alone Together [98] Helene Butler Music Box Theatre (October 21, 1984 – January 12, 1985)directed by Arnold Mittelman, written by Lawrence Roman, originally produced at the Whole Theatre Company, and produced by Arnold Mittelman and Lynne Peyser [99]
1987Happy Birthday, Mr. Abbott! or Night of 100 YearsUnknown Palace Theatre (June 22, 1987) [100] [101]
1987The Gingerbread LadyEvy Equity Library Theater directed by Geoffrey C. Shlaes [102]
1988Alone Together [98] Helene ButlerCoconut Grove Playhouse, Miami, Florida
1989The Gingerbread LadyEvy Coconut Grove Playhouse directed by Jack Allison [103]

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