JANIS PAIGE - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 269603

JANIS PAIGE. Photograph signed: "Janis/Paige". B/w, 10x7¾ overall, image 9¼x6¾ (one surface). Still from the 1949 Italian/British film, Fugitive Lady (also titled La Strada Buia), which starred Paige as Barbara Clementi. ©, Republic Pictures Corporation. In the year this film was released, Paige also starred on the big screen in The Younger Brothers and The House Across the Street. Actress/singer Janis Paige (born Donna Mae Jaden in 1922) made her feature film debut in Hollywood Canteen (1944). In addition to appearing in a number of feature films, including Of Human Bondage (1946), Silk Stockings (1957), Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) and Love at the Top (1986), Paige also enjoyed success on Broadway, appearing in the Tony Award-winning musical, Pajama Game (1954-1955; the film role went to her Warner Bros. rival, Doris Day), and in Remains to Be Seen, Here's Love, Mame and Alone Together. She was married to her third husband, songwriter Ray Gilbert (1912-1976), who won the 1947 Academy Award for his song, "Zip-i-Dee-Doo-Dah", from 1962 until his death in 1976, when she was placed in charge of her husband's Ipanema Music Company. Paige has also appeared in a number of made-for-TV movies and guested on a number of TV series, including All in the Family (as a waitress with whom Archie Bunker has a brief affair), Mission: Impossible, Fantasy Island, St. Elsewhere and Eight is Enough, and was featured on the daytime soaps, General Hospital, Capitol and Santa Barbara. Lightly creased at blank margins and corners. Minor surface creases (most not evident head on). Fine condition.