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Elsie Janis is a Actor, Scriptwriter, Producer, Sound and Additional Dialogue American born on 16 march 1889 at Columbus (USA)

Elsie Janis

Elsie Janis
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Birth name Elsie Bierbower
Nationality USA
Birth 16 march 1889 at Columbus (USA)
Death 26 february 1956 (at 66 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)

Elsie Janis (March 16, 1889 – February 26, 1956) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as "the sweetheart of the AEF" (American Expeditionary Force).

Biography

Durant la Première Guerre mondiale, Elsie Janis divertit les troupes britanniques, françaises puis américaines et gagne le surnom de « Sweetheart of the A.E.F. ».

Best films

Women in War
Women in War
(1940)
(Actress)

Usually with

Edmund Goulding
Edmund Goulding
(3 films)
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille
(2 films)
Mitchell Leisen
Mitchell Leisen
(1 films)
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks
(1 films)
Lillian Roth
Lillian Roth
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Elsie Janis (9 films)

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Actress

Women in War
Women in War (1940)
, 1h11
Directed by John H. Auer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Elsie Janis, Wendy Barrie, Patric Knowles, Mae Clarke, Dennie Moore, Dorothy Peterson
Roles Matron O'Neil
Rating65% 3.2565853.2565853.2565853.2565853.256585
Socialite Pamela Starr meets Mr Tedford, an older man in a London night club. After he escorts her home he tries to enter her flat feeling he has deserved the right to sleep with her as he has paid for her entertainment. Pamela thrusts a £5 note in his hands as reimbursement and attempts to enter her room but Tedford won't let her. The spirited Pamela strikes the drunken Tedford sending him across the landing where he crashes through a railing over the stairwell sending Tedford to his death.

Scriptwriter

Madam Satan
Madam Satan (1930)
, 1h56
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films
Actors Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth, Roland Young, Boyd Irwin, Wilfred Lucas
Roles Lyricist
Rating62% 3.145853.145853.145853.145853.14585
Socialite Angela Brooks (Kay Johnson) discovers that her husband Bob (Reginald Denny) is cheating on her with Trixie (Lillian Roth).
Reaching for the Moon
Reaching for the Moon (1930)
, 1h31
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Bebe Daniels, Edward Everett Horton, Claud Allister, Jack Mulhall, Walter Walker
Roles Writer
Rating55% 2.7598752.7598752.7598752.7598752.759875
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion", work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.
Close Harmony
Close Harmony (1929)
, 1h10
Directed by John Cromwell, A. Edward Sutherland
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Buddy Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Jack Oakie, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Ricca Allen, Wade Boteler
Roles Writer
Rating62% 3.129853.129853.129853.129853.12985
A musically talented young woman named Marjorie who is part of a stage show, meets a warehouse clerk named Al West who has put together an unusual jazz band. She becomes interested in him and his work and so manages to use her influence to get him into the program for one of the shows at her theatre company.
The Squaw Man
The Squaw Man (1918)
, 1h47
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Warner Baxter, Elliott Dexter, Ann Little, Lupe Vélez, Eleanor Boardman, Katherine MacDonald
Rating62% 3.146653.146653.146653.146653.14665
A British army officer Captain James Wingate (Warner Baxter) is left disgraced when he takes the blame for his cousin Henry's (Paul Cavanagh) misappropriation of the regiment's charitable fund. He heads to the Wild West of the United States, taking over a ranch in Montana where he marries a beautiful Indian squaw Naturich (Lupe Velez) and have child Hal (Dickie Moore). Years later Henry arrives there with his wife Lady Diana (Eleanor Boardman), with whom James has been secretly in love.

Production

Sound

Madam Satan
Madam Satan (1930)
, 1h56
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films
Actors Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth, Roland Young, Boyd Irwin, Wilfred Lucas
Roles Music
Rating62% 3.145853.145853.145853.145853.14585
Socialite Angela Brooks (Kay Johnson) discovers that her husband Bob (Reginald Denny) is cheating on her with Trixie (Lillian Roth).

Team

Reaching for the Moon
Reaching for the Moon (1930)
, 1h31
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Bebe Daniels, Edward Everett Horton, Claud Allister, Jack Mulhall, Walter Walker
Roles Additional Dialogue
Rating55% 2.7598752.7598752.7598752.7598752.759875
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion", work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.