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Janis Paige (born Donna Mae Tjaden; September 16, 1922) is an American retired actress and singer. Born in Tacoma, Washington, she began singing in local amateur shows at the age of five. After high school, she moved to Los Angeles, where she became a singer at the Hollywood Canteen during World War II, as well as posing as a pin-up model. This would lead to a film contract with Warner Bros., although she would later leave the studio to pursue live theatre work, appearing in a number of Broadway shows. She would continue to alternate between film and theatre work for much of her career. Beginning in the mid-fifties, she would also make numerous television appearances, as well as starring in her own sitcom It's Always Jan. With a career spanning over 60 years, she is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Paige became a centenarian on September 16, 2022.[1]

Janis Paige
Paige in 1944
Born	Donna Mae Tjaden (1922-09-16) September 16, 1922 (age 100) Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	1940–2001
Known for	The Pajama Game
Political party	Republican
Spouses	Frank Martinelli Jr. ​ ​ (m. 1947; div. 1951)​ Arthur Stander ​ ​ (m. 1956; div. 1957)​ Ray Gilbert ​ ​ (m. 1962; died 1976)​

Early life and career

Paige was born Donna Mae Tjaden in Tacoma, Washington, the only child of Hazel Leah (née Simmons) and George S. Tjaden on September 16, 1922,[2][3] primarily of Norwegian, German, English, and Cornish descent. She began singing in public at age five in local amateur shows. She moved to Los Angeles after graduating from high school and was hired as a singer at the Hollywood Canteen during World War II.[4] During the war, United States Army Air Forces pilots flying the P-61 Black Widow chose her as their "Black Widow Girl". In appreciation, she posed as a pin-up model, dressed in an appropriate costume.[5]

The Hollywood Canteen was a studio-sponsored club for members of the military. A Warner Bros. agent saw her potential and signed her to a contract. She began co-starring in low-budget musicals, often paired with Dennis Morgan or Jack Carson. She co-starred in Romance on the High Seas (1948), the film in which Doris Day made her movie debut. Paige later co-starred in adventures and dramas, in which she felt out of place. Following her role in Two Gals and a Guy (1951), she decided to leave Hollywood.[6]

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.[7]

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, 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.[8]

After six years away, Paige returned to Hollywood in Silk Stockings (1957), which starred Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse,[6] the Doris Day/David Niven comedy Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960),[4] 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).

Musical theatre

Paige returned to Broadway in 1963 in the short-lived Here's Love. In 1968, when after nearly two years Angela Lansbury left the Broadway production of the musical Mame to take the show on a limited US tour, Paige was the star chosen to be the first Broadway replacement,[9] and she admired the character, saying, "She's a free soul. She can be down, but never out. She's unbigoted. She says what she thinks with a kind of marvelous honesty, which is the only way to say anything." [10]

Paige appeared in touring productions of musicals such as Annie Get Your Gun, Applause, Sweet Charity, Ballroom, Gypsy: A Musical Fable, and Guys and Dolls. In 1984, she was back on Broadway with Kevin McCarthy in a nonmusical play, Alone Together.[11] The tryout tour gave Paige her first experience of the eastern summer-stock circuit, where she said audiences "laughed so hard you just had to wait",[12] and she enjoyed the role so much, she played it again in 1988 at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, this time with Robert Reed.[13]

Television

During the 1955–1956 television season, Paige starred in her own CBS situation comedy, It's Always Jan, co-starring Merry Anders, as Janis Stewart, a widowed mother, and her two female roommates played by Anders and Patricia Bright.[14]

Paige made her live dramatic TV debut June 27, 1957, in "The Latch Key" on Lux Video Theatre.[15] She appeared as troubadour Hallie Martin in The Fugitive episode "Ballad For a Ghost" (1964). She also had a recurring role as "Auntie V", Tom Bradford's sister, in Eight Is Enough.

Paige appeared as a waitress named Denise in both the seventh and ninth seasons of All in the Family. In her first appearance, she has a flirtation with Archie Bunker that threatens to become more serious.[6]

She appeared on episodes of 87th Precinct; Trapper John, M.D.;Columbo; Night Court; Caroline in the City; and in the 1975 television movie John O'Hara's Gibbsville (also known as The Turning Point of Jim Malloy). In 1982, she appeared on St. Elsewhere as a female flasher who stalked the hallways of the hospital to "cheer up" the male patients. In the 1980s and 1990s, she was seen on the soap operas Capitol (1987, as Sam Clegg's first wife, Laureen), General Hospital (1989–1990, as Katharine Delafield's flashy Aunt Iona, a lady counterfeiter), and Santa Barbara (1990–1993, replacing the much older Dame Judith Anderson as matriarch Minx Lockridge).

Walk of Fame

Paige was given a star in the Motion Picture section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6624 Hollywood Boulevard on February 9, 1960.[16]

Personal life

Paige has been married three times. She married Frank Louis Martinelli Jr., a restaurateur, in 1947; they divorced in 1951.[17] She married Arthur Stander, a television writer and creator of It's Always Jan, in 1956 and divorced him the next year.[18][19] Paige married composer and music publisher Ray Gilbert in 1962. They remained married until his death on March 3, 1976.[18] All of Paige's marriages were childless.

Paige is a Republican who supported the campaign of Dwight Eisenhower during the 1952 presidential election.[20]

In 2001, Paige found that her voice was cracking with nearly irreparable vocal-cord damage. She went to a singing teacher a friend recommended. Paige's voice ended up worse with her not being able to talk at all. "He literally took my voice away," she said. "I lost all my top voice. I couldn't hold a pitch for a second. Finally, I couldn't make a sound. He said that this will all come back. It didn't." Another singing teacher told her to go to the voice clinic at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. "There were bits of skin hanging off my vocal cords", she said. "They told me to go home and not talk for three months." She finally was introduced by a doctor to another voice teacher, Bruce Eckstut. He helped her regain her speaking voice and singing voice.[21]

In 2017, Paige wrote a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter in which she stated that Alfred Bloomingdale had attempted to rape her when she was 22 years old. She was sexually assaulted after being lured into Bloomingdale’s apartment under false pretenses.[22]

Paige turned 100 on September 16, 2022.[23]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1944	Bathing Beauty	Janis	Musical film directed by George Sidney.[24]
	Hollywood Canteen	Studio Guide	Musical romantic comedy film directed by Delmer Daves.[25]
1946	Her Kind of Man	Georgia King	Crime film noir directed by Frederick De Cordova.[26]
	Of Human Bondage	Sally Athelny	Drama film directed by Edmund Goulding[27] The second screen adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's 1915 novel with the 1934 Pre-Code drama film directed by John Cromwell.[28][29]
	Two Guys from Milwaukee	Polly	Comedy film directed by David Butler.[30]
	The Time, the Place and the Girl	Sue Jackson	Musical film directed by David Butler.[31] Also known as in these languages: Austrian dialect of German: Der Himmel voller Geigen, Finnish: Aika, paikka ja tyttö, Swedish: Här kommer Broadway, German: Krieg nach Noten, Italian: L'ora, il luogo e la ragazza, French: La fille et le garçon, and Danish: Tiden, stedet og pigen!.
1947	Love and Learn	Jackie	Comedy film directed Frederick de Cordova.[32]
	Cheyenne	Emily Carson	Romantic western film directed by Raoul Walsh.[33]
	Always Together	Polly	Comedy film directed Frederick de Cordova.[34] Uncredited
1948	Winter Meeting	Peggy Markham	Drama film directed by Bretaigne Windust & written by Catherine Turney[35] from the novel of the same title by Grace Zaring Stone under the pseudonym Ethel Vance.[36]
	Wallflower	Joy Linnett	Comedy film directed by Frederick de Cordova.[37]
	Romance on the High Seas	Elvira Kent	Musical romantic comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz.[38] Also known as It's Magic in the United Kingdom.[39]
	One Sunday Afternoon	Virginia Brush	Musical film directed by Raoul Walsh.[40] Based on James Hagan's play of the same name, which was produced on Broadway in 1933.[41][42]
1949	The Younger Brothers	Kate Shepherd	Western directed by Edwin L. Marin.[43]
	The House Across the Street	Kit Williams	Comedy film directed by Richard L. Bare.[44]
1950	Fugitive Lady	Barbara Clementi	Crime–drama film directed by Sidney Salkow and Marino Girolami (Uncredited).[45] Also known as La strada buia in Italian. Based on the novel Dark Road by Doris Miles Disney.[46]
	This Side of the Law	Nadine Taylor	Film noir directed by Richard L. Bare.[47][48]
1951	Mister Universe	Lorraine	Comedy–romantic sports film directed by Joseph Lerner.[49]
	Two Gals and a Guy	Della Oliver / Sylvia Latour	Comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green.[50] Also known as Baby and Me.
1957	Silk Stockings	Peggy Dayton	Metrocolor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer CinemaScope musical film adaptation[51] of the 1955 stage musical of the same name,[52] which itself was an adaptation of the film Ninotchka.[53]
1960	Please Don't Eat the Daisies	Deborah Vaughn	Metrocolor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer CinemaScope comedy film directed by Charles Walters[54] and partly inspired by the book of the same name by Jean Kerr.[55][56]
1961	Bachelor in Paradise	Dolores Jynson	Metrocolor romantic comedy film directed by Jack Arnold.[57]
1963	Follow the Boys	Liz Bradville	Comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe.[58]
	The Caretakers	Marion	Drama produced and directed by Hall Bartlett[59] and based on the novel of the same name by Dariel Telfer.[60][61]
1967	Welcome to Hard Times	Adah	Western film directed by Burt Kennedy.[62] and based on the novel of the same name by E. L. Doctorow.[63]
1994	Natural Causes	Mrs. MacCarthy	Action–drama thriller film directed by James Becket.[64]

Documentary/short subjects

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1944	I Won't Play	Kim Karol / Sally	Short drama film directed by Crane Wilbur.[65]
1947	So You Want to Be in Pictures	Herself	Uncredited Short film written and directed by Richard L. Bare.[66]
2003	Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There	Herself	Documentary film by Rick McKay.[67]
2021	Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission	Herself	Documentary film by Christopher Johnson and Mariana Coku.

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1949–1950	Bonnie Maid's Versatile Varieties	Herself	Contract role "Bonnie Maid" dressed in plaid kilts for sponsor Bonnie Maid Linoleum.
1953	Plymouth Playhouse	Guest	Episode: "Baby and Me"
1954	Philip Morris Playhouse	Guest	Episode: "Make Me Happy, Make Me Sad"
1955–1956	It's Always Jan	Jan Stewart	26 episodes
1957	Lux Video Theatre	Iris	Episode: "The Latch Key"
	Studio 57	Guest	Episode: "One of the Family"
1958	Schlitz Playhouse	Bebe Evans	Episode: "Home Again"
	Shower of Stars	Herself	Episode: "Episode #4.7"
	Roberta	Scharwenka	Musical made-for-TV-film directed by Ed Greenberg and Dick McDonough.[68]
1959	The Red Skelton Show	School Teacher	Episode: "Bashful Clem"
	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse	The Redhead	Episode: "Chez Rouge"
	Andy Williams Show	Herself	July 7, 1959, episode
1960	The Secret World of Eddie Hodges	Circus Star	Made-for-TV-film and musical directed by Norman Jewison.
	Maisie	Maisie Ravier	Made-for-TV-film and comedy directed by Edward Ludwig & based on Wilson Collison's Dark Dame novel.[69][70]
	Hooray for Love	Leading actress	Made-for-TV-film and musical directed by Burt Shevelove.
	The Ann Sothern Show	Edith	Episode: "The Girls"
1961	Wagon Train	Nellie Jefferson	Episode: "The Nellie Jefferson Story"
	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	Kathy Hewitt	Episode: "Happiest Day"
1962	87th Precinct	Cheryl Anderson	Episode: "Girl in the Case" (Series cancelled after 1st season)
	Alcoa Premiere	Connie Rankin	Episode: "Blues for a Hanging"
	The Red Skelton Show	Mrs. Cavendish	Episode: "Ten Baby Fingers and 12 Baby Toes"
1963	The Dick Powell Theater	Lavern	Episode: "Last of the Private Eyes"
1964	Burke's Law	Sharon McCauley	Episode: "Who Killed the Swinger on a Hook?"
	The Fugitive	Hallie Martin	Episode: "Ballad for a Ghost"
1965	The Red Skelton Show	Hatta Mari	Episode: "Dial 'O' for Nothing"
1969	Roberta	Scharwenka	musical made-for-TV-film directed by John Kennedy and Dick McDonough.[68]
1971	Sarge	Marian Hart	Episode: "Psst! Wanna Buy a Dirty Picture?"
1972	Columbo	Goldie Williamson	Episode: "Blueprint for Murder"
	Banacek	Lydia	Episode: "To Steal a King"
1973	Mannix	Georgia Durian	Episode: "A Way to Dusty Death"
1974	Police Story	Harry's Wife	Episode: "A Dangerous Age"
1975	Gibbsville	Lonnie	Episode: "The Turning Point of Jim Malloy"–Pilot Originally a made-for-TV-film co–written and directed by Frank D. Gilroy.[71]
	Police Story	Irene	Episode: "The Return of Joe Forrester"[72] Pilot for Joe Forrester Later a made-for-TV-film retitled Cop on the Beat
	Doc	Guest	Episode: "The Other Woman"
	Police Story	Mrs. Driscoll	Episode: "Vice: 24 Hours"
1976	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	Charlene Maguire	Episode: "Menage-a-Lou"
	All in the Family	Denise	2 episodes
	All's Fair	Barbara	Epispde: "Jealousy"
	The Nancy Walker Show	Guest	Episode: "Dear Dr. Dora"
1976–1977	Lanigan's Rabbi	Kate Laniga	5 episodes
1977	The Betty White Show	Wilma	Episode: "Mitzi's Cousin"
1977–1980	Eight Is Enough	Aunt Vivian	5 episodes
1978	The Love Boat	Phyllis Morrison	Episode: "A Selfless Love / The Nubile Nurse / Parents Know Best"
	Alice	Ruth	Episode: "The Cuban Connection"
	Fantasy Island	Charlotte	Episode: "The Beachcomber / The Last Whodunit"
	Hawaii Five-O	Minnie Cahoon	Episode: "The Case Against Philip Christie"
	Charlie's Angels	Joan Sayers	Episode: "Angels Ahoy"
	The Rockford Files	Miriam	Episode: "A Three-Day Affair with a Thirty-Day Escrow"
	All in the Family	Denise	Episode: "Return of the Waitress"
1980	Valentine Magic on Love Island	Madge	Romantic comedy made-for-TV-film directed by Earl Bellamy.[73]
	Angel on My Shoulder	Dolly Blaine	Fantasy film made-for-TV-film directed by John Berry.[74]
1981	Fantasy Island	Mabel Martin	Episode: "High Off the Hog / Reprisal"
	Happy Days	Angela	Episode: "Mother and Child Reunion"
	Bret Maverick	Mandy Packer	2 episodes
	Flamingo Road	Jenny	Episode: "The Powers That Be"
	Lewis & Clark	Rose	Episode: "The Family Affair"
1982	Too Close for Comfort	Irene Miller	Episode: "The Last Weekend"
	Romance Theatre	Estelle	5 episodes
1983	Matt Houston	Lauren Calder	Episode: "The Purrfect Crime"
	St. Elsewhere	Dee Mackaluso	Episode: "Remission"
	Gun Shy	Nettie McCoy	6 episodes Series was based upon its popular The Apple Dumpling Gang films.
	Fantasy Island	Brian's Mother	Episode: "The Devil Stick / Touch and Go"
	The Other Woman	Mrs. Barnes	Made-for-TV-Move directed by Melville Shavelson.[75][76][77][78][79]
	Baby Makes Five	Blanche Riddle	5 episodes[80]
	Trauma Center	Guest	Episode: "Trail's End"
1984	Night Court	Eleanor Brandon	Episode: "Welcome Back, Momma"
	No Man's Land	Maggie Hodiak	Made-for-TV-film directed by Rod Holcomb.[81]
	We Think the World Is Round	Nina (voice)	Animated made-for-TV-film directed by Rudy Larriva.
1985	Rockhopper	Helen Larabee	Adventure made-for-TV-film directed by Bill Bixby.[82]
1985–1986	Trapper John, M.D.	Catherine Hackett	15 episodes
1987	Capitol	Laureen Clegg	Episode: "Episode #1.1268"
1989	Mission: Impossible	Katherine Foster	Episode: "The Haunting"
	General Hospital	Aunt Iona Huntington	Recurring
1990	Shades of L.A.	Ruth Lockwood	Episode: "Where There's No Will, There's a Weigh-In"
1990–1993	Santa Barbara	Minx Lockridge	106 episodes
1992	Room for Two	Charlotte Agnoletti	Episode: "Whose Mouth Is It Anyway?"
1995	Legend	Delilah Pratt	Episode: "Clueless in San Francisco"
1997	Caroline in the City	Loretta	Episode: "Caroline and the Bad Trip"
2001	Family Law	Ann Fox	Episode: "The Quality of Mercy"

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Notes
1951–1952	Remains to Be Seen	Jody Revere	Morosco Theatre (October 3, 1951 – March 22, 1952)	Directed by Bretaigne Windust, written by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse, and produced by Leland Hayward.[83][84]
1952	Remains to Be Seen	Jody Revere	National Tour, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland Summer 1952
1954–1955	The Pajama Game	Babe Williams[85]	St. James Theatre (May 13, 1954 – June 23, 1955)	Directed by George Abbott & Jerome Robbins, written by George Abbott & Richard Bissell, and produced by Frederick Brisson, Robert E. Griffith & Harold S. Prince.[86] Based on the novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell.[87]
1959	High Button Shoes	Unknown	State Fair of Texas in Dallas at Fair Park[88]	Based on the semi–autobiographical novel The Sisters Liked Them Handsome by Stephen Longstreet.[89] Written by George Abbott & Stephen Longstreet and directed by Abbott.[90][91]
1963–1964	Here's Love	Doris Walker	Shubert Theatre (October 3, 1963 – July 25, 1964)	Directed & produced by Stuart Ostrow[92] and written by Meredith Willson.[93] Based on the classic film Miracle on 34th Street.[94] Based on the novel Here's Love by Meredith Willson.
1967	Born Yesterday	Billie Dawn	Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, NJ
1967	Sweet Charity	Charity	Kenley Players, Various Ohio Cities Summer 1967
1968	Mame	Mame Dennis[95]	Winter Garden Theatre (April 1, 1968 – November 30, 1968)	Directed by Gene Saks and produced by Fryer, Carr & Harris Inc[96] Based on the novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis.[97]
1969	Mame	Mame Dennis[95]	National Tour Various U.S. Cities
1970	Gypsy	Mama Rose	Hershey Community Theater (August 17–22, 1970)	With Jack Haskell.[98]
1971	Applause	Margo Channing		Performed in Johannesburg, South Africa.[99]
1973	Born Yesterday	Billie Dawn	Country Dinner Playhouse (July 17, 1973 – August 19, 1973)[100]
1974	Desk Set	Bunny Watson[101]	Thunderbird Dinner Theatre[101]	Directed by Robert Bruce Holley.[101]
1974	Gypsy	Mama Rose	National Tour Summer 1974
1975	Annie Get Your Gun	Annie Oakley	National tour[99]
1975	The Gingerbread Lady	Evy	Candlelight Dinner Playhouse (August 19, 1975–unknown)	Replacement for Carolyn Jones.[102]
1978	Guys and Dolls	Adelaide	National tour[103]
1979	Ballroom	Bea	National tour[8]
1984–1985	Alone Together[103]	Helene Butler	Music Box Theatre (October 21, 1984 – January 12, 1985)	Directed by Arnold Mittelman, written by Lawrence Roman, originally produced at the Whole Theatre Company, and produced by Arnold Mittelman and Lynne Peyser.[104]
1987	Happy Birthday, Mr. Abbott! or Night of 100 Years	Unknown	Palace Theatre (June 22, 1987)[105][106]
1987	The Gingerbread Lady	Evy	Equity Library Theater	Directed by Geoffrey C. Shlaes.[107]
1988	Alone Together[103]	Helene Butler	Coconut Grove Playhouse, Miami, FL ( Summer1988)
1989	The Gingerbread Lady	Evy	Coconut Grove Playhouse	Directed by Jack Allison.[108]

References

Sources

External links

• Janis Paige at IMDb
• Janis Paige at the Internet Broadway Database
• Janis Paige at AllMovie
• Janis Paige at Rotten Tomatoes

На других языках

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[de] Janis Paige

Janis Paige (* 16. September 1922 in Tacoma, Washington; eigentlich: Donna Mae Tjaden) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und Sängerin, die in den 1940er- und 1950er-Jahren vor allem in musikalischen Komödien bekannt wurde.

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- [en] Janis Paige

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[es] Janis Paige

Donna Mae Tjaden (Tacoma, Washington; 16 de septiembre de 1922), conocida artísticamente como Janis Paige, es una actriz y cantante estadounidense retirada. Nacida en Tacoma, Washington, comenzó a cantar en espectáculos locales de aficionados a los cinco años. Después del instituto, se trasladó a Los Ángeles, donde se convirtió en cantante en el Hollywood Canteen durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial,[1] además de posar como modelo pin-up. Esto la llevaría a conseguir un contrato cinematográfico con la Warner Bros., aunque más tarde dejaría el estudio para dedicarse al teatro en vivo, apareciendo en varios espectáculos de Broadway. Durante gran parte de su carrera siguió alternando el cine y el teatro. A partir de mediados de los años cincuenta, también hizo numerosas apariciones en televisión, además de protagonizar su propia comedia It's Always Jan. Con una carrera de más de 60 años, es una de las últimas estrellas supervivientes de la Edad de Oro de Hollywood. Paige se convirtió en centenaria el 16 de septiembre de 2022.

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[ru] Дженис Пейдж

Дженис Пейдж (англ. Janis Paige, урождённая Донна Мэй Тжэйден (англ. Donna Mae Tjaden), род. 16 сентября 1922 (1922-09-16)) — американская актриса. Начала выступать уже в пятилетнем возрасте в любительских шоу в родной Такоме, штат Вашингтон. После окончания средней школы переехала в Лос-Анджелес, где была принята певицей в так называемую «Голливудскую столовую», отправной пункт американских солдат на фронты Второй мировой войны, где голливудские звезды организовывали для них развлекательные программы. Там её заметил агент «Warner Bros.», и вскоре она подписала с киностудией контракт.

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