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Eilene Janssen
Los Angeles, California, USA
Eilene Janssen was born in Los Angeles, California on May 25, 1938, to Henry Janssen and Mary Ellen Thompson. She began her film career as a child actress in the early 1940s. Wit…
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Eilene Janssen was born in Los Angeles, California on May 25, 1938, to Henry Janssen and Mary Ellen Thompson. She began her film career as a child actress in the early 1940s. With her father being a longtime worker for Universal Studios, Eilene Janssen made her first screen appearance in the 1940 film Sandy Gets Her Man. She continued to have bit parts in several movies such as Two Girls and a Sailor and It Happened Tomorrow. In 1944, she was awarded the title "Little Miss America". As she grew older, she gained more prominent roles such as Elise in Song of Love and Peggy in The Boy with Green Hair. As a young adult she had a good role as the female lead in the 1957 Western film Escape from Red Rock. Apart from films, Eilene Janssen also acted in television series like The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best, Mister Ed, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Tales of Wells Fargo, Make Room for Daddy, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Beverly Hillbillies and Perry Mason. She retired from acting in 1968. As of 2004, she is residing in Pasadena, California. Janssen married Harry Ronald Rothschild on November 29, 1957. They had two children together before they divorced in 1962. She then married Thomas Alexander Orchard, in 1963. They had one child together before their 1966 divorce. Janssen married George Ellis Moore in 1968. They had two children together before he died in 2000. CLR
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1968
Panic in the City
Movie Information Clerk
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1963
Black Zoo
Movie Bride
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1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV show First Airline Hostess
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1957
Escape from Red Rock
Movie Janie Acker
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1957
Beginning of the End
Movie William's Date
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1956
The Search for Bridey Murphy
Movie Bridey Murphy Age 15
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1955
A Midsummer Daydream
Movie Girl
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1954
Father Knows Best
TV show Evelyn
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1954
About Mrs. Leslie
Movie Pixie Croffman
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1953
The Danny Thomas Show
TV show Peggy Conroy
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1952
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
TV show Nancy Baker
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1952
Sally and Saint Anne
Movie Young Jeanne
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1952
Wild Horse Ambush
Movie Judy
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1951
Arizona Manhunt
Movie Judy Dawson
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1951
The Dakota Kid
Movie Judy Dawson
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1951
Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas
Movie Judy Dawson
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1948
The Boy with Green Hair
Movie Peggy
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1948
Borrowed Trouble
Movie Child
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1948
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Movie Betty
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1948
On Our Merry Way
Movie Peggy Thorndyke
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1947
Song of Love
Movie Elise Schumann
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1947
Curley
Movie Betty
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1946
The Green Years
Movie Alison Keith as a child
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1946
Rendezvous 24
Movie Anchaka Schmidt
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1944
Till We Meet Again
Movie Yvonne
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1944
It Happened Tomorrow
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