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Janet Waldo is a Actor American born on 4 february 1920 at Yakima (USA)

Janet Waldo

Janet Waldo
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Birth name Janet Marie Waldo (some sources cite Jeanette Marie Waldo)
Nationality USA
Birth 4 february 1920 at Yakima (USA)
Death 12 june 2016 (at 96 years)

Janet Marie Waldo (some sources cite Jeanette Marie Waldo; born February 4, 1920), is an American radio, television, animation and live-action film actress. She is best known in animation for voicing Judy Jetson, Nancy in Shazzan, Penelope Pitstop, and Josie McCoy in Josie and the Pussycats, and on radio for Meet Corliss Archer.

Biography

Waldo est né à Yakima (Washington). Sa mère, Jane Althea Blodgett, était une chanteuse formée au Conservatoire de Boston et son père, Benjamin Franklin Waldo était un lointain cousin du poète américain Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Waldo, étudiante en théâtre à l'université de Washington, remporte un prix spécial lors de sa première année. Un ancien élève Bing Crosby, en visite à l'époque, lui remet le prix. Celui-ci l'invite à le suivre en Californie et lui propose de signer pour un test à l'écran pour la comédie The Star Maker. Cette rencontre marqua le début de sa carrière.



Carrière
Elle obtient de petits rôles dans les films avec Crosby tels que Les bébés turbulents de Wesley Ruggles en 1938 et The Star Maker de Roy Del Ruth, Paris Honeymoon de Frank Tuttle en 1939, If I Had My Way de David Butler et Rhythm on the River de Victor Schertzinger mais c'est à la radio qu'elle connaîtra ses plus grands succès. Elle intervient dans l’émission radiophonique, très populaire aux États-Unis à partir des années 30, Lux Radio Theatre , alors produite par Cecil B. DeMille, en collaboration avec Merle Oberon et George Brent.

Toujours à la radio, Waldo interprète une série d'histoire pour adolescent Meet Corliss Archer sur la vie d'une jeune fille, Corliss Archer. Cette série connait un grand succès et sera, par la suite adaptée pour la télévision.


Aux États-Unis, la grande popularité de l'actrice tient au fait qu'elle a prêté sa voix à de nombreux personnages de dessins animés à succès comme Josie et les Pussycats, Sophie la sorcière, Les Pierrafeu, La famille Adams.

Usually with

William Hanna
William Hanna
(11 films)
Joseph Barbera
Joseph Barbera
(10 films)
Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier
(11 films)
Daws Butler
Daws Butler
(8 films)
Edith Head
Edith Head
(7 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Janet Waldo (34 films)

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Actress

Tot Watchers
Directed by Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about cats, Mise en scène d'un rongeur, Mise en scène d'une souris, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Daws Butler, Janet Waldo, Bill Thompson
Roles Jeanie / Joan (voice) (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.3345253.3345253.3345253.3345253.334525
La maîtresse de maison est sortie pour quelques heures, laissant son bébé aux soins d'une adolescente qui commence immédiatement à appeler ses amis. Tom et Jerry doivent alors faire une trêve à leurs poursuites constantes pour surveiller le bébé qui s’enfuit continuellement. Lorsque le bébé s'échappe par la porte d'entrée, Tom et Jerry le poursuivent sur un chantier de construction, où ils essaient frénétiquement de le protéger des dangers.
Land of the Open Range
Directed by Edward Killy
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tim Holt, Janet Waldo, Hobart Cavanaugh, Roy Barcroft, John Elliott, Frank Ellis
Roles Mary Cook
Rating62% 3.1412653.1412653.1412653.1412653.141265
A deputy sheriff faces a town of ex-cons.
So Ends Our Night, 1h57
Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Glenn Ford, Frances Dee, Anna Sten, Erich von Stroheim
Roles Jacqueline (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.3897353.3897353.3897353.3897353.389735
The story begins in 1937 Austria, before the German occupation which would arrive the following year. Josef Steiner (Fredric March) is a middle-aged German veteran who has been an ideological opponent to the Nazi regime from its inception and already escaped from two years in a concentration camp. He's in hiding in a dodgy Austrian boarding house with young Ludwig Kern (Glenn Ford in an early and outstanding performance), a bewildered 19-year-old German from a prosperous family that was found to have Jewish forebears when the Nazis came to power and now "half-Aryan," are abruptly deprived of their German citizenship and passports, rendered stateless and ordered to leave the country.
The Bandit Trail
Directed by Edward Killy
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Tim Holt, Janet Waldo, Morris Ankrum, Roy Barcroft, Eddy Waller, Glenn Strange
Roles Ellen Grant
Rating59% 2.955182.955182.955182.955182.95518
A cowboy helps rob a bank to get revenge on an unscrupulous banker.
Rhythm on the River, 1h32
Directed by Victor Schertzinger
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Basil Rathbone, Oscar Levant, Charley Grapewin, William Frawley
Roles Westlake's Receptionist
Rating67% 3.3896453.3896453.3896453.3896453.389645
Oliver Courtney (Basil Rathbone) is an arrogant composer who lets other people write songs he takes credit for. Bob Sommers (Bing Crosby) writes his tunes with Billy Starbuck (Oscar Levant). At the night of a social Christmas party, Oliver introduces Bob's song "What Would Shakespeare Have Said?" as his own. Later that night, Oliver thanks Bob for his loyalty and offers him a contract for $50 a week for three years. He refuses, saying he would rather have a catboat to visit his uncle at his river hotel, called Nobody's Inn.
Waterloo Bridge, 1h48
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Political films, Films based on plays, Erotic thriller films
Actors Robert Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field, Maria Ouspenskaïa, C. Aubrey Smith
Roles Elsa
Rating76% 3.8473853.8473853.8473853.8473853.847385
After Britain's declaration of World War II, Roy Cronin (Robert Taylor), an army colonel, is being driven to London's Waterloo Station en route to France, and briefly alights on Waterloo Bridge to reminisce about events which occurred during the First World War when he met Myra Lester (Vivien Leigh) whom he had planned to marry. While Roy gazes at a good luck charm, a billiken that she had given him, the story unfolds.
If I Had My Way, 1h33
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, Charles Winninger, El Brendel, Allyn Joslyn, Claire Dodd
Roles Miss Courtney (uncredited)
Rating60% 3.0037753.0037753.0037753.0037753.003775
Buzz Blackwell, Fred Johnson and Axel Swenson are construction workers who are building a bridge. They are good friends and Buzz and Axel even help Fred raising his daughter Patricia. When Fred tragically dies in a fatal accident, Patricia is forced to live with her relatives in New York City whom she has never met. Buzz and Axel decide to depart with her. They soon arrive at her uncle and aunt Jarvis and Brenda, who are horrible persons. Jarvis is a snobby rich man, while Brenda is supercilious. Jarvis has received a letter from Buzz, warning him for their arrival and wants no part in raising Patricia. As they show up, Jarvis pretends to be someone else and sends them to the other "J. Johnson". This is Joe, Patricia's great uncle and husband of Marian. They are poor ex-vaudevillans but welcome them with open arms. Buzz wants to give Joe Fred's money he left him for Patricia, but finds out a drunken Axel used that money to buy a Swedish restaurant. This restaurant, which is doomed to fail, is now the only money bringer for the Johnsons. Buzz is determined to help them out and turns the restaurant in a night club, but is bothered with Jarvis, he has returned to claim "his" money back.
What a Life, 1h15
Directed by Theodore Reed
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Jackie Cooper, Betty Field, John Howard, Janice Logan, Fred Niblo, Lionel Stander
Roles Gwen
Rating67% 3.367233.367233.367233.367233.36723
In the first Henry Aldrich film, Henry (Jackie Cooper) is falsely accused of making trouble at school. He must clear himself.
Honeymoon in Bali, 1h35
Directed by Edward H. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Allan Jones, Akim Tamiroff, Helen Broderick, Osa Massen
Roles Fortune Girl's Companion (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.1469453.1469453.1469453.1469453.146945
On a rainy New York City autumn afternoon, the head of a major Department Store, Gail Allen, meets her second cousin and best friend Lorna for afternoon tea. Her cousin, an author of love stories set in the South Seas, invites a resident fortune teller to predict Gail's future. At first the reading sounds like a hundred others, until she foresees her having a child and meeting a man whose arm was cut by a native's rice knife.
The Star Maker, 1h34
Directed by Roy Del Ruth, Hal Walker
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Comedy, Musical
Actors Bing Crosby, Ned Sparks, Laura Hope Crews, Janet Waldo, Thurston Hall, Clara Blandick
Roles Stella
Rating60% 3.045973.045973.045973.045973.04597
Larry Earl est un compositeur ambitieux mais fauché; sa femme Mary persuade un directeur de théâtre de le laisser monter un spectacle avec des enfants. Mais une nouvelle loi interdit aux enfants de travailler après 10H du soir.