Los Angeles [US], Janis Paige, the veteran star who starred in the original Broadway production of 'The Pajama Game' and Hollywood musicals such as Silk Stockings and Romance on the High Seas, has died at the age of 101.
Paige, who was discovered while performing at the famous Hollywood Canteen in the 1940s, died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles on Sunday, her friend Stuart Lampert announced, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Paige starred on her own network sitcoms, playing a widowed nightclub singer struggling to raise her 10-year-old daughter in the 1955–56 CBS series It's Always Jan, and as Dick Van Patten's free-spirited sister on ABC's It's Always Jan. He had recurring roles in the form. Eight Is Enough and CBS's Trapper John, M.D. As a hospital administrator in.
The actress also had two memorable guest-starring roles in 1976, in which she played an attractive diner waitress named Denise who tricks Archie (Carroll O'Connor) into cheating on Edith (Gene Stapleton) in All in the Family. and is the ex-girlfriend of Lou (Edward Asner) on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
In 1968, Page replaced Angela Lansbury in Mame on Broadway and performed as the title character for almost two years.
After six years of work on stage and television, Page returned to the big screen to star with Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in Silk Stockings (1957), an adaptation of a stage musical with its roots in Greta Garbo's Ninotchka. Was.
She also appeared as Iona Huntington in dozens of episodes of the daytime drama General Hospital and as Minx Lockridge in Santa Barbara. His last credit was a 2001 episode of Family Law.
Paige, who was discovered while performing at the famous Hollywood Canteen in the 1940s, died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles on Sunday, her friend Stuart Lampert announced, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Paige starred on her own network sitcoms, playing a widowed nightclub singer struggling to raise her 10-year-old daughter in the 1955–56 CBS series It's Always Jan, and as Dick Van Patten's free-spirited sister on ABC's It's Always Jan. He had recurring roles in the form. Eight Is Enough and CBS's Trapper John, M.D. As a hospital administrator in.
The actress also had two memorable guest-starring roles in 1976, in which she played an attractive diner waitress named Denise who tricks Archie (Carroll O'Connor) into cheating on Edith (Gene Stapleton) in All in the Family. and is the ex-girlfriend of Lou (Edward Asner) on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
In 1968, Page replaced Angela Lansbury in Mame on Broadway and performed as the title character for almost two years.
After six years of work on stage and television, Page returned to the big screen to star with Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in Silk Stockings (1957), an adaptation of a stage musical with its roots in Greta Garbo's Ninotchka. Was.
She also appeared as Iona Huntington in dozens of episodes of the daytime drama General Hospital and as Minx Lockridge in Santa Barbara. His last credit was a 2001 episode of Family Law.
