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Janis Paige Autograph This 7×5 black and white promo photo has been hand signed in black ink. This authentic Janis Paige Autograph comes complete with a market leading unconditional 90-day money back guarantee, copy of a third party certificate of authenticity and the Presley Collectibles lifetime COA. Worldwide shipping is available.
Janis Paige (born Donna Mae Tjaden; September 16, 1922) is an American actress and singer. She is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Paige appeared on Broadway and was a huge hit in a 1951 comedy-mystery play, Remains to Be Seen, co-starring Jackie Cooper. She also toured successfully as a cabaret singer. In April 1947, she was crowned “Miss Damsite” and participated at the ground-breaking ceremony for the McNary Dam, on the Columbia River, alongside Cornelia Morton McNary, Senator Charles McNary’s widow, and Oregon Governor Earl Snell.
Stardom came in 1954 with her role as “Babe” in the Broadway musical The Pajama Game. She was on the December 1954 cover of Esquire magazine, where she was featured in a seductive pose taken by American photographer Maxwell Frederic Coplan. For the screen version, the studio wanted one major movie star to guarantee the film’s success, so John Raitt’s role of Sid was offered to Frank Sinatra, who would have been paired with Paige. When Sinatra turned it down, the producers offered Paige’s role of Babe to Doris Day, who accepted and was paired with Raitt.
After six years away, Paige returned to Hollywood in Silk Stockings (1957), which starred Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, the Doris Day/David Niven comedy Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (1960), and as a love-starved married neighbor in Bachelor in Paradise (1961) with Bob Hope. A rare dramatic role was as “Marion”, an institutionalized prostitute, in The Caretakers (1963).
Janis Paige Autograph This 7×5 black and white promo photo has been hand signed in black ink. This authentic Janis Paige Autograph comes complete with a market leading unconditional 90-day money back guarantee, copy of a third party certificate of authenticity and the Presley Collectibles lifetime COA. Worldwide shipping is available.