Elsie Janis
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Elsie Janis was an American actress of stage and screen, singer, songwriter, screenwriter and radio announcer. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as "the sweetheart of the AEF
The Theatre Magazine (November 1915)
Elsie Janis, 17 years old, in The Vanderbilt Cup 1906. She is dressed in early automobile attire; in the play, she drives a car on stage
Signed drawing of Elsie Janis by Manuel Rosenberg, 1926
Janis in Theatre Magazine (March 1917)
Women in War
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Women in War is a 1940 American war film about the nurses of the British Voluntary Aid Detachment during the Battle of France. Directed by John H. Auer and starring Wendy Barrie, Elsie Janis and Patri
Elsie Janis
…in the area. Following the accident, Janis moved to the Los Angeles area of California, where she lived until her death. Her final film was the 1940 Women in War. Elsie Janis died in 1956 at her home in Beverly Hills, California, aged 66, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale…
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