Janis Carter

	Janis Carter
	; Yank Magazine 5 Jan 45
	Background information
Born	10 October 1913
Birth place:	Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Born as	Janis Dremann
Died	30 July 1994,
	Durham, NC USA; (Heart attack)
Height	5' 7" (1.7m)

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Janis Carter (October 10, 1913 - July 30, 1994) was a film and television actress working in the 1940s and 1950s. After attending Mather College (Western Reserve) in Cleveland, Ohio in 1935, Carter headed to New York in an attempt to start an opera career. Although her attempt was a failure, she did end up working on Broadway where she was spotted on stage by Darryl F. Zanuck who was impressed by the young actor/singer and 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" with John Wayne.. After leaving Los Angeles, Carter returned to New York and found work in television in comedies, dramas and in she 1954 became the hostess of the NBC quiz show, "Feather Your Nest", working with Bud Collyer.

In 1956, Janis married Julius Stulman and retired from show business. With the same enthusiasm she had shown in other areas of her life, she involved herself in cultural activities of her community serving in various capacities throughout the years, primarily in Sarasota, Florida.