Janet Blair Dies
Posted by Slobokan @ 15:29 · 180 words · print
Janet Blair, the vivacious actress who appeared in several 1940s musicals and comedies, then turned to television and stars like Sid Caesar and Henry Fonda, has died. She was 85.
Blair died Monday from complications of pneumonia at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, her children Amanda and Andrew Mayo said.
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She appeared opposite George Raft in the gangster movie "Broadway" and co-starred with Cary Grant and a dancing caterpillar in the 1944 comedy-fantasy "Once Upon a Time." She was the love interest in "The Fabulous Dorseys," starring bandleaders Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey and appeared opposite Red Skelton in the 1946 sleeper hit "The Fuller Brush Man."
She also co-starred with Don Ameche and Jack Oakie in "Something to Shout About," which featured a Cole Porter score that included the song "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to."
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Born Martha Janet Lafferty in 1921 in Altoona, Pa., Blair attended public schools and sang in the church choir. She would later take the name of a Pennsylvania county in christening herself Janet Blair.
She is survived by her two children.
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Posted by Bill MacCannell
February 22, 2007 @ 22:11
Janet Blair was a beautiful woman. I remember her in
"My Sister Eileen" but I was young in the 1940s and so
missed many of her movies. I am wondering why her movie
career came to such an abrupt end in 1948. Does anyone know why? Maybe it was her own choosing. Another of the old-time
greats is gone.