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Canary From Cleveland
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On her first day in New York she landed a job as hostess in a Wall Street cafe. On the side she modelled for an exclusive Fifth Avenue shop. On Sundays she sang in churches. What was left of her spare time she spent practicing voice. No grass grew under her steady feet.
After working like a Trojan, she finally secured a Metropolitan audition. This was her big chance. Then came heartbreak. She was told that her voice had quality, but was not quite strong enough for opera. Janis refused to be discouraged. She felt that if she kept on practicing she might strengthen her voice enough to make the Metropolitan. But it meant years of arduous practice and sacrificing everything else for it. Was it worth it?
A theatrical agent who had seen Janis at the audition offered her a chance to sing in a Broadway show. To sing was ■what she wanted most, even if it wasn't grand opera, so Janis sang for fourteen months in I Married an Angel: then went on to DuBarry Was a Lady and Panama Harxie. Not one to waste a moment, she did photographic modeling, too. Her violet blue eyes and strawberry blond hair became famous in magazines and billboards from Maine to Mexico.
So it might be said her beauty preceded her to Hollywood where she arrived in 1941. under contract to Twentieth Century-Fox. The studio raced her through eight pictures in swift succession. The roles weren't large enough for Janis, who must be busy every moment. She felt useless and longed for a still busier schedule. So she bent a willing ear when Hunt Stromberg invited her over to the M-G-M lot to appear in the screen version of I Married an Angel.
Producer Stromberg was so impressed with her ability and beauty that when he formed his own independent company, she was one of the first he put under contract. Now Janis is practicing voice a^ain. for she's been promised starring roles in the forthcoming Stromberg musicals.
She even manages to cram into her busy days time to attend antique auction sales (her passion'* . collect records and do needlepoint as well as wield a mean tennis racket.
It's a far cry from the curly-headed minx who informed Dolores Del Rio in no uncertain terms of her movie aspirations — to the glamorous, poised young woman with the golden voice that is Janis Carter today. But they had something in common— the kind of determination that never let up until her wish came true. |
Brenda Marshall, star of Warner Bros, picture "YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FOREVER"
Next month we pop questions at Bob Cummings. Don't miss this Say and amusing quiz
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