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    Elsie Janis (born Elsie Bierbower, March 16, 1889 – February 26, 1956) was an American actress of stage and screen, singer, songwriter, screenwriter and...
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  • Scottish doctor Elsie Janis (1889–1956), American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter Elsie Jury (1910–1993), Canadian archaeologist Elsie S. Kanza...
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    drama silent film directed by Hobart Bosworth, written by Elsie Janis, and starring Elsie Janis, Hobart Bosworth, Owen Moore, Myrtle Stedman, Harry Ham...
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    "offensive" dances was the 1913 song, Anti-Ragtime Girl by composer-lyricist Elsie Janis: …She don’t do the Bunny Hug, nor dance the Grizzly Bear / She hasn't...
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    "Caesar's Wife". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved February 15, 2016. "Elsie Janis and Her Gang". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved February 15, 2016...
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    was performing in amateur theatricals in Boston, Pidgeon was hired by Elsie Janis, a producer, actor and singer looking for a male singer for her revue...
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    vaudeville writer Elsie Janis. She agreed to work on the project, but left amicably on March 24, 1930, due to creative differences. Janis reportedly did...
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  • jazz musician (no relation to Byron Janis) Dorothy Janis (1912 –2010), American silent film actress Elsie Janis (1889–1956), American musical theatre...
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    Kilborn Blunden Shannon Carter Luceille Fleming Olga González-Sanabria Elsie Janis Lois Lenski Ellen Mosley-Thompson Cathy Nelson Evlyn Gray Scott Yvonne...
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    never ran out. Following Forbes, in the United States actress and singer Elsie Janis was called The Sweetheart of the American Expeditionary Forces. During...
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    supervised by the production supervisor, singer, actress, and songwriter Elsie Janis. Featured stars included Jean Arthur, Richard Arlen, Clara Bow, Evelyn...
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  • Battle of France. Directed by John H. Auer and starring Wendy Barrie, Elsie Janis and Patric Knowles, it was nominated for an Oscar for Best Visual Effects...
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  • silent film directed by Phillips Smalley and written by Elsie Janis. The film stars Elsie Janis, Courtenay Foote, Herbert Standing, Vera Lewis, Martha...
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  • silent film directed by Hobart Bosworth and written by Elsie Janis. The film stars Elsie Janis, Frank Elliott, Owen Moore, Myrtle Stedman and Harry Ham...
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    Kilborn Blunden Shannon Carter Luceille Fleming Olga González-Sanabria Elsie Janis Lois Lenski Ellen Mosley-Thompson Cathy Nelson Evlyn Gray Scott Yvonne...
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    comedian Elsie Janis. It was produced by Lewis J. Selznick. The film had the working title Everybody's Sweetheart, a moniker associated with Janis as a vaudeville...
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    Come Back (1961) and Send Me No Flowers (1964). Along with David Niven and Janis Paige, Day starred in Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) and with Cary...
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  • Hart Richard Rodgers 3:23 3. "But Not For Me" Ira Gershwin George Gershwin 2:51 4. "Love (Your Spell is Everywhere)" Elsie Janis Edmund Goulding 2:43...
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    directed by Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber and written by Elsie Janis. The film stars Elsie Janis, Owen Moore, Juanita Hansen, Herbert Standing, Vera Lewis...
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    of the Bureau's director, Charles R. Forbes, on corruption charges. Elsie Janis, the Broadway musical theatre star, Hollywood screenwriter, composer...
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    colonial New York and wife of Frederick Philipse, Lord of Philipse Manor Elsie Janis (1889–1956), singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter Mondaire Jones...
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  • Time for Tenderness" sung by Judith was written by Edmund Goulding and Elsie Janis. The voice of Vera Van was dubbed for Davis. Another scene for the film's...
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    based on a novel by Edna Ferber, fictionalizing the life of vaudevillian Elsie Janis. The film was Fox's first part talkie, using the Movietone sound system...
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    Kilborn Blunden Shannon Carter Luceille Fleming Olga González-Sanabria Elsie Janis Lois Lenski Ellen Mosley-Thompson Cathy Nelson Evlyn Gray Scott Yvonne...
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  • Me the Girl (And Leave the Rest to Me)". In 1918, it was recorded by Elsie Janis. The song was initially popularised in Britain by music hall star Fred...
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    the Elsie Janis Trio. In May 1913, at the Palace Theatre (New York City), Holtz appeared in a trio, with Harris and Boland, presented by Elsie Janis, during...
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  • Kilborn Blunden Shannon Carter Luceille Fleming Olga González-Sanabria Elsie Janis Lois Lenski Ellen Mosley-Thompson Cathy Nelson Evlyn Gray Scott Yvonne...
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  • Jerome Kern, and lyrics by Schuyler Greene, with additional lyrics by Elsie Janis, Herbert Reynolds, Harry B. Smith, John E. Hazzard, Ring Lardner and...
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    Marie Dressler, Emma Carus, Nora Bayes, Blanche Ring, Clarice Vance, Elsie Janis, Trixie Friganza, Eva Tanguay and Julia Gerity. As with minstrel shows...
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    crime film directed by Robert Ellis and starring Elsie Janis, Joe King, and Ethel Stewart. Elsie Janis as Jane Morgan Joe King as The Leopard Ethel Stewart...
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