Janis PaigeFilmography

Hero

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy Garcia, Joan Cusack, Kevin J. O'Connor

Synopsis: Stephen Frears' Hero is a contemporary re-working of a Frank Capra-styled fable about a two-bit criminal named Bernie (Dustin Hoffman) who saves several passengers from a plane crash and leaves the scene without being identified, leaving only a lost shoe for identification. One of the passengers Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Haunting

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Terry Markwell

Synopsis: The "new" Misison:Impossible moved from Sunday to Saturday evenings with the January 28, 1989 episode "The Haunting." The IMF's target is an elusive serial killer whose latest murder may cancel a crucial oil-trade agreement. To stop the villain in his tracks, the IMF agents play a dangerous series Read More

Love at the Top

Synopsis: A lingerie designer (Janis Paige) finds herself falling for her competition, the son-in-law of her boss. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Night Court: Welcome Back, Momma

Synopsis: Janis Paige appears as Eleanor Brandon, a lonely woman who seems to know all the intimate details in the life of Judge Harry T. Stone (Harry Anderson). Is it possible that Eleanor is Harry's long-lost mother, as she claims to be? And in another case, the shifty promoter of a phony beauty contest Read More

The Other Woman

Actors: Hal Linden, Anne Meara, Madolyn Smith

Synopsis: Directed by seasoned comedy man Melville Shavelson, The Other Woman is a "menage a trois" TV movie with a twist. The stars are middle-aged Anne Meara and Hal Linden, and youngish Madolyn Smith. The twist? Linden, a book publisher, is married to half-his-age Smith, a fashion designer. It is Anne Meara Read More

Angel on My Shoulder

Actors: Peter Strauss, Richard Kiley, Barbara Hershey, Janis Paige, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: A gangster who was wrongfully executed for a killing is promised leniency from Satan if he returns to earth in the body of a lawman who is trying to stamp out evil. Trouble is, the dead man has a hard time being evil enough to get revenge. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Valentine Magic on Love Island

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Valentine Magic on Love Island was accurately dismissed by one reviewer as a "bubble headed brew of I Dream of Jeannie and a Club Med Vacation." Janis Paige stars as Madge, a benign sorceress who runs a lavish tropical resort with the help of her nephew Jimmy (Christopher Knight) Read More

Alice: The Cuban Connection

Synopsis: Desi Arnaz and Janis Paige respectively guest-star as a philandering Cuban photographer and his long-suffering wife. When the photographer makes a play for Alice (Linda Lavin), his wife jumps to the erroneous conclusion that our heroine is the latest "other woman." It falls to Alice to act as Read More

The Rockford Files: Three Day Affair With a Thirty Day Escrow

Synopsis: After being kidnapped and harrassed by the members of an Arab family, Jim (James Garner) tries to find out why his captors were so interested in his current client Sean Innes (Richard Romanus), who'd hired him to locate a woman named Khedra Azziz (Maria Grimm). It soon becomes clear that both Sean Read More

All in the Family: The Return of the Waitress

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Danielle Brisebois, Janis Paige, Jason Wingreen

Synopsis: Archie is shocked to discover that the new waitress hired by Harry is none other than Denise (Janis Paige), the woman with whom Archie nearly had an extramarital fling back in 1976. Unfortunately, Edith also learns that Denise is back in the neighborhood. Inevitably, the two women in Archie's life Read More

Lanigan's Rabbi

Synopsis: Lanigan's Rabbi is the pilot for the subsequent TV series based on Harry Kemelman's novels about crimesolving Rabbi David Small. Stuart Margolin plays the Rabbi, while Art Carney is top-billed as the police detective who frequently relies on Small's intuition. This initial episode, adapted from Read More

All in the Family: Archie's Brief Encounter, Part One

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Janis Paige

Synopsis: Season seven of All in the Family opened with an hour-long episode -- the first of a two-part story arc -- which put the relationship between Archie and Edith Bunker to its severest test. With Edith busy at the Sunshine Nursing Home, a lonely Archie gravitates to an attractive middle-aged waitress Read More

The Turning Point of Jim Malloy

Actors: Gig Young

Synopsis: This TV movie was originally aired as John O'Hara's Gibbsville. Based on O'Hara's semi-autobiographical story anthology The Doctor's Son, the film tells the story of Jim Malloy (John Savage) and his youth in his Pennsylvania home town. Aspiring to become a reporter, Malloy goes to work for Read More

The Return of Joe Forrester

Synopsis: Lloyd Bridges stars as plainclothes policeman Joe Forrester. When a gang of robber-rapists besiege his old beat, Forrester voluntarily returns to uniform duty. He hopes that his presence will encourage the frightened residents to help bring the gang to justice, but the most immediate results of Read More

Banacek: To Steal a King

Synopsis: In this mystery, ace-detective Bancek looks into the case of a missing coin valued at $3-million. The priceless object was stolen from a hotel vault. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Welcome to Hard Times

Actors: Henry Fonda, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn, Janis Paige, John Anderson, Warren Oates

Synopsis: Long before he scored with the epic Ragtime, novelist E.L. Doctorow wrote a minor novel upon which this stark 1967 film is based. It was adapted for the screen by veteran western director Burt Kennedy. In a forlorn town called Hard Times in the Old West, a cowardly mayor, Will Blue (Henry Fonda) Read More

The Fugitive: Ballad for a Ghost

Synopsis: Now in Ohio and posing as "Pete Glenn", Kimble (David Janssen) lands a job at a nightclub where Hallie Martin (Janis Paige) is the featured singer. It happens that Hallie is the living image of Kimble's late wife, a fact that fascinates him. Hallie is equally fascinated by Kimble--but her husband Read More

The Caretakers

Actors: Robert Stack, Polly Bergen, Joan Crawford, Janis Paige, Diane McBain

Synopsis: A "bad movie" with a fervent fan following, The Caretakers is set in a bleak mental institution. Joan Crawford plays the hard-bitten head nurse (we first see her taking a karate lesson!) who is dead set against the progressive theories of new doctor Robert Stack. After a few minutes' exposure to Read More

Follow the Boys

Actors: Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, Dany Robin, Janis Paige, Russ Tamblyn

Synopsis: Follow the Boys attempts to recapture the box-office magic of 1960's Where the Boys Are; sometimes it succeeds. Returning from the earlier film are Connie Francis and Paula Prentiss, here cast as Bonnie Pulaski and Toni Denham, tourists on the French Riviera. Together with their Gallic friend Read More

Milton Berle Spectacular

Actors: Milton Berle

Bachelor in Paradise

Actors: Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Janis Paige, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss

Synopsis: Bob Hope was in the first stages of his cinematic decline when he starred in Bachelor in Paradise. Hope plays a "romance expert" who is contracted to write an expose on the sexual habits of suburban California housewives. For research purposes, he moves into a subdivision called Paradise Read More

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Actors: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn

Synopsis: In this entertaining comedy by Charles Walters, everyone seems to get in on the act, even the dog and especially the four overactive kids in a wildly challenging family. David Niven co-stars with Doris Day as Lawrence and Kate Mackay, distinctive parents struggling with home, life, and family. Read More

Silk Stockings

Actors: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige, Peter Lorre, George Tobias, Joseph Buloff

Synopsis: Silk Stockings, a musical version of the 1939 Greta Garbo film Ninotchka, was adapted for the stage by George S. Kaufman, Leueen McGrath (the then-Mrs. Kaufman) and Abe Burrows, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The Broadway production, starring Hildegarde Neff and Don Ameche, ran 478 Read More

Saturday Color Carnival: Salute to Baseball

Actors: Gene Kelly, Robert Alda, Melvin Allen, Johnny Antonelli, Ernie Banks

Synopsis: Originally telecast live and in color, this NBC special would be especially valuable to see again, especially if one is a dyed-in-the-wool baseball fanatic. Emceed by Gene Kelly, the 90-minute extravaganza brings together dozens of special guests from Baseball and Showbiz to commemorate in song Read More

Mr. Universe

Actors: Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Vince Edwards, Bert Lahr, Robert Alda

Synopsis: Yes, that's Vincent Edwards under that lavish blonde hairpiece in Eagle-Lion's Mr. Universe. An unsubtle lampoon of professional wrestling, the film top-bills Jack Carson as manager Jeff Clayton, who convinces bodybuilding contest winner Tommy Tomkins (Edwards) that "you gotta have a gimmick." Read More

Two Gals and a Guy

Actors: Robert Alda, Janis Paige, James Gleason, Lionel Stander, Arnold Stang

Synopsis: Two Gals and a Guy was a low-budget attempt to cash in on the "guests" of the Indians. These three bitter enemies must join forces to escape their captors and warn General Custer (James Millican) of the upcoming ambush at the Little Big Horn. Nominal leading lady Polly Bergen was "discovered" in Warpath Read More

Fugitive Lady

Actors: Janis Paige, Binnie Barnes, Massimo Serato, Eduardo Ciannelli

Synopsis: Janis Paige stars as Fugitive Lady Barbara Clementi in this internationally produced melodrama. When Italian millionaire Ralph Clementi (Eduardo Cianelli) dies mysteriously, suspicion falls upon Clementi's admittedly mercenary American wife Barbara. Insurance investigator Jeff (Tony Centa) is Read More

This Side of the Law

Actors: Viveca Lindfors, Kent Smith, Janis Paige, Robert Douglas, John Alvin

Synopsis: This Side of the Law stars Kent Smith as David Cummins, a man caught up in an epic subterfuge. At the behest of attorney Philip Cagle (Robert Douglas), Cummins poses as a man who has been missing for seven years and is presumed dead. Cagle insists that this deception is necessary to protect a huge Read More

The Younger Brothers

Actors: Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Robert Hutton

Synopsis: The story of the outlaw Younger Brothers is duly Hollywoodized in this Technicolor western. Wayne Morris, Bruce Bennett, Robert Hutton and James Brown star as Cole, Jim, Johnny and Bob Younger, who as the film begins have just been released from jail. They try hard to follow the straight and Read More

The House Across the Street

Actors: Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett, Alan Hale, James Mitchell

Synopsis: House Across the Street was the second remake of the 1933 Paul Muni starrer Hi, Nellie. The original's satirical jibes against columnist Walter Winchell are downplayed in favor of undistilled concentration on the plot. Crusading newspaperman Dave Joslin (Wayne Morris) is kicked downstairs to the Read More

One Sunday Afternoon

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Dorothy Malone, Ben Blue

Synopsis: This third film version of James Hagan's stage play One Sunday Afternoon was directed by Raoul Walsh, who helmed the second adaptation (1941's Strawberry Blonde). This time around, songs have been added to accommodate the talents of Dennis Morgan and Janis Paige. Morgan stars as Read More

Romance on the High Seas

Actors: Doris Day, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Oscar Levant

Synopsis: This cute film is Doris Day's film debut and in it she plays Georgia Garrett, a substitute traveller on an ocean cruise. Her friend Elvira Kent (Janis Paige) had scheduled the cruise but at the last minute cancels when she suspects that her husband is cheating on her and she decides to stay at Read More

Winter Meeting

Actors: Bette Davis, Jim Davis, James Davis, John Hoyt, Florence Bates

Synopsis: The most memorable aspect of Winter Meeting, and the one that stirred up the most publicity, was its teaming of two Davises: Bette Davis and Jim Davis (whose only "A"-picture starring role this was). Bette D. plays disenchanted poetess Susan Grieve, while Jim D. is cast as disillusioned war hero Read More

Wallflower

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds, Janis Paige, Edward Arnold, Barbara Brown

Synopsis: In this comedy, two stepsisters fight for the love of the same man. One of the sisters is good-looking and vivacious. She is also an utter fluffhead. Her sister is pragmatic and plain, but in the end, she gets the man. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Love and Learn

Actors: Jack Carson, Robert Hutton, Martha Vickers, Janis Paige, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: Jack Carson and Robert Hutton make a curious but copacetic comedy duo in the Warner Bros. musical Love and Learn. The stars are cast as Jingles and Bob, a pair of would-be songwriters hoping to get a break on Broadway. Along comes Barbara Wyngate (Martha Vickers), a wealthy young woman who hopes Read More

Cheyenne

Actors: John Alvin, Bruce Bennett, Monte Blue, John Compton, Tom Fadden

Synopsis: A mysterious crook by the name of "The Poet" is robbing Wells Fargo stages and creating havoc in the Old West. The sheriff is having no luck discovering the desperado's identity; when he comes across James Wylie (Dennis Morgan), a gambler who is running from the law in Carson City, he blackmails Read More

Always Together

Actors: Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Ernest Truex, Don McGuire

Synopsis: In this frothy, star-studded Warner Brothers outing, tightwad tycoon Jonathan Turner, believing himself at death's door, gives star-struck movie buff Jane Barker a million bucks. Problems begin when Jane's hubby, an aspiring writer, finds out about her new fortune. Marital turmoil ensues causing Read More

Of Human Bondage

Actors: Eleanor Parker, Paul Henreid, Alexis Smith, Edmund Gwenn, Janis Paige

Synopsis: This second film version of Somerset Maugham's classic novel stars Paul Henreid as a clubfooted, introverted medical student--an Englishman in the novel, but not in the hands of the mittel-European Mr. Henried. Eleanor Parker is featured as Mildred, the vulgar, brassy cockney waitress in whom Read More

The Time, the Place and the Girl

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Martha Vickers, S.Z. Sakall

Synopsis: Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson, the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope of Burbank, star in the Warner Bros. musical The Time, the Place and the Girl. The story involves a pair of nightclub owners and the problems inherent in their mounting The Big Show. Victoria Cassel Martha Vickers agrees to help out. The Read More

Two Guys from Milwaukee

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Joan Leslie, Janis Paige, S.Z. Sakall

Synopsis: If Paramount could rake in the bucks by teaming singer Bing Crosby and comedian Bob Hope in a series of Road pictures, then Warner Bros. could do the same. Lacking a Crosby or Hope, Warners paired Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson (who like Crosby and Hope were good buddies off-screen) and came up Read More

Her Kind of Man

Actors: Dane Clark, Janis Paige, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, George Tobias

Synopsis: This Warner Bros. programmer stars Dane Clark as Prohibition-era columnist Don Corwin and Janis Paige as speakeasy singer Georgia King. Corwin is in love with Georgia, but she has promised herself to disreputable gambler/gangster Steve Maddux (Zachary Scott). With the repeal of Prohibition Read More

Hollywood Canteen

Actors: The Andrews Sisters, Robert Hutton, Jack Benny, Joan Leslie, Bette Davis, Julie Bishop, John Garfield, Betty Brodel, Barbara Brown, Sydney Greenstreet

Synopsis: The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film stars Bette Davis and John Garfield. The Canteen was established so that Our Boys on leave in Tinseltown could have a good time with good food and good dancing -- and, as a Read More

Bathing Beauty

Actors: Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone, Bill Goodwin, Ethel Smith

Synopsis: If you've never seen a '40s singing, swimming musical this may be the one to catch. Featuring a mammoth cast, including such notables as Xavier Cugat, Basil Rathbone, Red Skelton, and Esther Williams, this is a swimming spectacular. The plot's quite thin: Skelton plays a lovesick songwriter who Read More