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Eilene Janssen

Born
May 25, 1938 · Age 88
Place of birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Gender
Female
Movie credits
22
TV credits
6

Biography

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…