Janis Paige, a popular actor in Hollywood and in Broadway musicals and comedies who danced with Fred Astaire, toured with Bob Hope and continued to perform into her 80s, has died
. She was 101. Paige died Sunday of natural causes at her Los Angeles home, longtime friend Stuart Lampert said Monday. Paige starred on Broadway with Jackie Cooper in the mystery-comedy, 'Remains to be Seen' and appeared with John Raitt in the smash hit musical 'The Pajama Game.' Her other films included a Hope comedy, 'Bachelor in Paradise'; the Doris Day comedy 'Please Don't Eat the Daisies' and 'Follow the Boys.
MGM producer Arthur Freed caught her nightclub act at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles and offered her a part opposite Astaire in 'Silk Stockings,” also co-starring Cyd Charisse. The film is famous for her and Astaire spoofing the newfangled movie gimmicks in the Cole Porter number 'Stereophonic Sound,' including swinging from a chandelier. “I was one mass of bruises. I didn’t know how to fall.
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