Highest rated movie: Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Lowest rated movie: I Married an Angel (1942)
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Looking for reviews of Janis Carter movies? Cinafilm has a total of 194 reviews across 12 movies.
Movies starring Janis Carter have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 55%.
Flying Leathernecks - released in 1951 - is Janis Carter's highest rated movie, with a score of 65% based on 25 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Janis Carter is I Married an Angel - released in 1942 - with a score of 45% based on 5 reviews.
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.
Carter, after moving to Hollywood, appeared in over 30 films beginning in 1941 for 20th Century Fox, MGM, Columbia, and RKO. She appeared in the films Night Editor (1946) and Framed (1947) with Glenn Ford and the Flying Leathernecks (1951) with John Wayne.
After leaving Los Angeles, Carter returned to New York and found work in television in comedies, dramas, and as hostess for the quiz show Feather Your Nest, opposite Bud Collyer.
Janis Carter has acted in films with Robert B. Williams, Adele Jergens, Bess Flowers and Will Wright.
Janis Carter has worked with these film directors: William A. Wellman, Lloyd Bacon, Nicholas Ray and Lew Landers.
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