Janet Blair Net Worth is
$18 Million

Mini Biography

When it found bright and polished, they didn’t get very much spiffier than singer/actress Janet Blair — probably to her detriment in the long term. At Columbia, she was generally overlooked for the assignments that might have got examined her dramatic mettle. Even so, she pleased viewers like a pert and perky co-star to several bigger stars, which range from George Raft and Cary Offer to Crimson Skelton as well as the Dorsey Brothers. Of Irish descent, she was created Martha Janet Lafferty in Altoona, Pa, in 1921. Elevated there in the general public school program, she sang in the cathedral choir during her youngsters and adolescence. The motivation and talent had been evident enough on her behalf to pursue performing as a profession by enough time she graduated. At age group 18, she was a business lead vocalist with Hal Kemp’s music group in the Cocoanut Grove in LA. While with Kemp’s clothing, Janet fulfilled and, subsequently, wedded the band’s pianist, Lou Busch, a well known musician, songwriter, and, later on, ragtime recording designer. A Columbia Pictures skill scout captured her behind the mike and spotted okay potential in the pretty-as-a-picture songstress. The loss of life of Kemp in a vehicle accident in Dec of 1940 as well as the band’s eventual break-up signaled a life-changing span of occasions. She registered with Columbia, for $100 weekly, and shifted to LA while her hubby found are a studio room musician. Janet produced an instantaneous impression in her debut film as the feisty child sister of Joan Blondell and Binnie Barnes in Three Women About City (1941) and in addition dallied about in the films, Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942) and Blondie Would go to University (1942), until her big break in the films arrived. Superstar Rosalind Russell produced a pitch for Janet to try out her co-lead in my own Sister Eileen (1942) as her naive, starry-eyed young sister (Eileen), who transported aspirations to be a big-time celebrity. The film became an instantaneous strike and Janet abruptly shifted up in to the “appreciate interest” ranks. Generally appearing within a frothy musical or light humor, she was seeded second, nevertheless, to some other redhead, Rita Hayworth, when it found Columbia’s dispensing out musical prospects. Janet, nevertheless, continuing promisingly combined up with George Raft in the mob-oriented tunefest, Broadway (1942); alongside Don Ameche in the musical, Something to Shout About (1943); and reverse Cary Give in the comedy-fantasy, A long time ago (1944), one of is own lesser known movies. She performed second result in Ms. Hayworth in Tonight and EVERY EVENING (1945) and was correct in her component when asked to co-star with bandleaders Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey within their biopic, The Fantastic Dorseys (1947). A uncommon dramatic role arrived her method in the Glenn Ford starrer, Gallant Trip (1946), but once again she was relegated to playing the stereotyped altruistic wife. In retrospect, the need for her functions, although performed quite capably, had been even more supportive and ornamental in character and lacked actual bite. By enough time the daring-do “B” swashbuckler The Dark Arrow (1948) rolled out, Columbia got lost fascination with its reasonable maiden and Janet got lost fascination with Hollywood. A new decade caused a fresh career direction. Piecing together an effective nightclub work, she was discovered by composer Richard Rodgers and produced a gleaming name for herself within a short while. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “South Pacific”, starring Mary Martin, was the strike from the Broadway period and Janet dutifully got on the business lead function of “Ensign Nellie Forbush” when the display continued tour in 1950. She provided a yeoman overall performance — over 1,200 in every — within a three-year period. Third , success, she produced her Broadway debut in the musical, “A WOMAN Can Inform,” in 1953. She continued for decades, showing up in such tuneful automobiles as “Anything Runs,” “Bells Are Buzzing,” “Annie MAKE YOUR Weapon,” “Mame,” and “Follies.” Her career, nevertheless, took second place following marrying second hubby, producer/director Nick Mayo in 1953, and bringing up their two kids, Amanda and Andrew. The few fulfilled when he stage-managed “South Pacific” and continued to co-own and run Valley Music Theater in Woodland Hillsides, California, through the middle-1960s. There, she performed “Maria” in “The Sound of Music” and “Peter Skillet” reverse Vincent Price’s “Dr. Hook,” amongst others. Her second relationship lasted before past due ’60s. TV’s “Golden Age group” became a viable moderate on her behalf. A encouraging series role found her in 1956 when she changed Emmy-winning Nanette Fabray as Sid Caesar’s femme co-star on Caesar’s Hour (1954) but she still left the sketch-based humor show after only 1 period because she sensed stifled and underused. She also came back to films sometimes, appearing contrary her The Fuller Clean Guy (1948) co-star, Crimson Skelton, in one of his slapstick automobiles, Community Pigeon No. One (1957); simply because Tony Randall’s wife in the local comedy, Kids’ PARTICULAR DATE (1962), starring Kim Novak; and in the wonderful cult English horror, Burn off, Witch, Burn off (1962) (aka Burn off, Witch, Burn off) and she was new like a daisy, once more, in the antiseptic Disney musical, The best, Genuine, Original Family members Music group (1968). After her second divorce, Janet let go touring in musicals and resolved in Hollywood to improve her two teenage kids while searching for TV function. She found a reliable paycheck matched up with Henry Fonda over the sitcom, The Smith Family members (1971), playing another of her copyrighted devoted wives. She also discovered scattered focus on such Television shows as Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969), Change (1975), Fantasy Isle (1977), as well as the Love Sail boat (1977). Her last visitor showing was over the Murder, She Wrote (1984) show, Murder, She Wrote: Who Wiped out J.B. Fletcher? (1991). Janet passed away at age group 85 in Santa Monica, California, after developing pneumonia.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Janet Blair
Died	February 19, 2007, Santa Monica, California, United States
Profession	Actor, Singer
Nationality	American
Spouse	Nick Mayo, Lou Busch
Children	Andrew Mayo, Amanda Mayo
Movies	Night of the Eagle, My Sister Eileen, Tonight and Every Night, The Fuller Brush Man, The Fabulous Dorseys, The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, The Black Arrow, Something to Shout About, I Love Trouble, Once Upon a Time, Three Girls About Town, Boys' Night Out, Gallant Journey, Blondie Goes to College, Two Yanks in Trinidad, Tars and Spars, Broadway, Public Pigeon No. One, One Touch of Venus
TV Shows	The Smith Family, Caesar's Hour, The Chevy Show (1958), The Chey Show (1955)