Janis Carter — Actor (14)
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Just Off Broadway (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Just Off Broadway
director: Herbert I. Leeds actor: Lloyd Nolan / Marjorie Weaver …
other title: El puñal asesino / Le Témoin disparu
Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out on sequestration in order to solve the case himself!
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A Woman of Distinction (1950) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Woman of Distinction
director: Edward Buzzell actor: Rosalind Russell / Ray Milland …
other title: Los escándalos de la profesora / Suzy... dis-moi oui …
Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a keepsake of Susan's he wants to return. Desperate for publicity, lecture bureau press agent Teddy Evans magnifies this into a great romance. The efforts of both dignified principals to quash the story have the opposite effect; matters get more and more involved.
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The Girl in the Case (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Girl in the Case
director: William Berke actor: Edmund Lowe / Janis Carter …
William Warner is a lawyer who is famous for his skill at opening any kind of lock, making him a valuable commodity. William is unknowingly enlisted by German spies who want him to open a chest containing a secret formula. This leads to a madcap adventure involving spies, the police and lots of picked locks!
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Lucille Ball / William Holden …
other title: Segretaria tutto fare / Miss Grain de sel
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
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The Mark of the Whistler (1944) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Mark of the Whistler
director: William Castle actor: Richard Dix / Janis Carter …
other title: Das Zeichen des Whistlers / Falsa Identidad …
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
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Framed (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Framed
director: Richard Wallace actor: Glenn Ford / Janis Carter …
other title: Il cerchio si chiude / Abgekartetes Spiel …
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
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Thunder Birds (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Thunder Birds
director: William A. Wellman actor: Preston Foster / John Sutton …
other title: Pilotes de chasse / Águilas de fuego …
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders, the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton passes his training and becomes a combat pilot -- even though he loses Kay to the young man in the process.