Janis Paige, a popular actor in Hollywood and in Broadway musicals and comedies, has died. She was 101.
FILE - Bob Hope and Janis Paige hug during the annual Christmas show in Saigon, Vietnam, Dec. 25, 1964. 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 Sunday, June 2, 2024, of natural causes at her Los Angeles home, longtime friend Stuart Lampert said Monday, June 3.
Her other films included a Hope comedy, "Bachelor in Paradise"; the Doris Day comedy "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" and "Follow the Boys." The same day, Warner Bros. signed her and cast her in a dramatic segment of the all-star movie "Hollywood Canteen." Her contract started at $150 a week. “I earned more per week than my mother had made in a month during the Great Depression,” she recalled in The Hollywood Reporter in 2018.
She took her talents to Broadway, where she starred in “Remains to Be Seen” , and starred as Babe opposite Raitt as Sid in the original production of “The Pajama Game,” directed in 1954 by George Abbott. Chad Jones, reviewer for the Alameda Times-Star, commented that at 80 "the charming Paige shows a vitality, verve and spirit that performers half her age would envy."
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