Elsie Janis

Elsie Janis, March 1917 Theatre Magazine.

Elsie Janis (March 16, 1889 – February 26, 1956) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter. Events 597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 747 BC - Epoch (origin of Ptolemy 's Nabonassar Era 364 - Valentinian I is proclaimed Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as "the sweetheart of the AEF" (American Expeditionary Force). World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All The American Expeditionary Forces or AEF was the United States military force sent to Europe in World War I.

Early career

Born Elsie Bierbower (or Beerbower) in Marion County, Ohio, she first took to the stage at age 2. Marion County is a County located in the state of Ohio, United States. By age 11, she was a headliner on the vaudeville circuit, performing under the name "Little Elsie". Vaudeville was a Genre of variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada, from the early 1880s As she matured, using the stage name Elsie Janis, she began perfecting her comedic skills. A stage name, also called a screen name, is a Pseudonym used by Performers and Entertainers such as

Acclaimed by American and British critics, Janis was a headliner on Broadway and London. Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.

Elsie performed at the grand opening of the Brown Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky on October 5, 1925. Events 869 - The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Janis also enjoyed a career as a Hollywood screenwriter, actor and composer; her song Oh, Give Me Time for Tenderness was featured in Bette Davis' 1939 movie, Dark Victory. Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5 1908 – October 6 1989 was an American actress of Film, Television and Theatre. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dark Victory is a 1939 American Drama film directed by Edmund Goulding.

World War I

Janis was a tireless advocate for British and American soldiers fighting in World War I. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All She raised funds for Liberty Bonds. A Liberty Bond was a special type of War bond that was sold in the United States to support the allied cause in World War I. Janis also took her act on the road, entertaining troops stationed near the front lines - one of the first popular American artists to do so in a war fought on foreign soil. She wrote about her wartime experiences in The Big Show: My Six Months with the American Expeditionary Forces (published in 1919), and recreated them in a 1926 Vitaphone musical short, Behind the Lines.

Later life

Janis maintained her private home, ElJan, on the eastside of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, across the street from what was Ohio State University's "Buckeye Field", the precursor to Ohio Stadium. Columbus is the Capital and the largest city of the US state of Ohio. The Ohio State University ( OSU) is a Coeducational public Research university in the state of Ohio. Janis sold the house following her mother's death; a McDonalds now occupies the site of ElJan.

In 1932, Janis married Gilbert Wilson, who was sixteen years her junior. The couple lived in Tarrytown, New York until Janis moved to the Los Angeles area of California where she lived until her death. Tarrytown is a village in the Town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York, United States. Her final film was the 1940 Women in War co-starring Wendy Barrie and Peter Cushing. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Wendy Barrie ( 18 April, 1912 – 2 February, 1978) was a British actress who worked in British and Hollywood Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE (26 May 1913—11 August 1994 was an English actor known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein

Elsie Janis died in 1956 at her home in Beverly Hills, California, aged 66, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately-owned Cemetery in Glendale, Los Angeles, in the United States. Glendale ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Elsie Janis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6776 Hollywood Blvd. The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a Sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood Los Angeles California, USA, that

External links

• Elsie Janis at the Internet Movie Database
• Elsie Janis at the Internet Broadway Database
• Elsie Janis at Find A Grave
• Extensive biographical site at Ohio State University