Vivi Janiss's father was Earl Alexander Jamison, born August 3, 1889, in Nebraska, and died June 17, 1962, in California . Vivi was their only child. On December 4, 1959, Janiss was cast in the CBS anthology series Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, hosted by Desi Arnaz in the episode "The Hanging Judge" in which James Whitmore portrays a judge intent on bringing about vengeance of the killer of the judge's daughter.
A native of Nebraska, she was the second wife of actor and comedian Bob Cummings, to whom she was wed from 1935 to 1943. [2], Please help by replacing IMDb with third-party, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Excitement at Milltown on State Trooper", "The Hanging Judge on Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vivi_Janiss&oldid=983064728, Articles lacking reliable references from May 2018, Internet Broadway Database person ID same as Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 12 October 2020, at 01:22. Buddy Ebsen was originally cast as the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. [2] Years later in 1977, Janiss played a minor role as a pawnshop proprietor in the episode "Second Chance" of James Garner's NBC detective series The Rockford Files. In this episode, Larch and Janiss were cast as John and Mary Clark. [2] Then on October 7, 1960, cast as Edna Castle, she joined Luther Adler in the role of her husband, pawnbroker Arthur Castle, in "The Man in the Bottle" episode of The Twilight Zone. Directed by Harmon Jones. Ebsen was a country boy and he looked it. It stinks, it's a lousy thing.". Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site. His three marriages averaged 22.9 years each. In 1984, she ran as a Democrat for Pennsylvania's Ninth Congressional District, but lost to Republican incumbent "Bud Shuster". [1] She was also the voice of Walt Disney's Daisy Duck and appeared on both the Gunsmoke radio and television series. He was married to Helen Matilda Jamison née Liljgren. Publicity Listings
Later, she taught acting and retired to a farm in Connecticut and, later, Palm Springs, where she died in 1991 of cancer. It's just a lousy thing to go through. [3] In 1959, Janiss was cast the role of Ella Westover in a second State Trooper episode, "Excitement at Milltown," along with Dayton Lummis and Suzanne Lloyd, a story about mysterious accidents at a remote lumber mill. Had a Masters Degree in English & French from the University of Miami (Fla.), Writers played a twist on naming Nancy's best-known character, Miss Jane Hathaway. Soon after arriving in Hollywood, Kulp was convinced by director George Cukor and casting director Billy Gordon that she should be in front of the camera, not behind the scenes. She was cast once on Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, Lawman, Trackdown, Cimarron City, Route 66, Have Gun – Will Travel, Follow the Sun, Hennesey, Outlaws, Laramie, 87th Precinct, Perry Mason, Mannix, and The Streets of San Francisco.
In the story line, a genie grants four wishes to the couple, which fail to allow them to escape their humble lifestyle, but allow them to appreciate it.
His … He was in three celebrity relationships averaging approximately 22.9 years each. He was 95. Long divorced, she came out of the closet at the age of 67 and acknowledged she was a lesbian. There's no good time to get divorced. A woman gets off the stage expecting to meet her husband.
The particular role made her a national star.
[4] He is most popularly remembered for his television role as hillbilly–turned–millionaire Jed Clampett of the long–running situation comedy The Beverly Hillbillies. Earlier, the two had co-starred on November 23, 1959, as Johnny and Elsie in the episode "End of an Era" of NBC's Western seriesTales of Wells Fargo, starring Dale Robertson, and on May 23, 1960, as Isaiah and Rebecca Macabee in the episode "The Proud Earth" of the half-hour NBC anthology series Goodyear Theatre. [5], In its first season on the air, Janiss was cast with Everett Sloane in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone episode "The Fever".
I disagree with people who say 'oh, its a good time now we can get divorced.' Others cast in the episode were John McIntire, as Janiss' husband, Jean Hagen, Buddy Ebsen, and Warren Berlinger. [2], Janiss' last roles were in the 1978 CBS television film First, You Cry, a story about breast cancer starring Mary Tyler Moore, and in two 1979 CBS series appearances on Barnaby Jones with Buddy Ebsen (Janiss and Bob Cummings had appeared together with Ebsen 45 years earlier in the Ziegfeld Follies), and House Calls, starring Wayne Rogers.
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On November 9, 1960, Larch and Janiss appeared as Ben and Sarah Harness in the episode "The Cathy Eckhart Story" of Wagon Train, with Susan Oliver in the starring role. In its first season on the air, Janiss was cast with Everett Sloane in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone episode "The Fever". [2], After Cummings and she divorced, Janiss wed actor John Larch, who was cast as the police chief in 1971 in the first of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry films. LOS ANGELES (AP) – Buddy Ebsen, who starred in the television series "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Barnaby Jones," has died after an undisclosed illness.
In 1984, she ran as a Democrat for Pennsylvania's Ninth Congressional District, but lost to Republican incumbent "Bud Shuster".