It was during this period that she took her first dramatic lessons-with the American Theatre Wing. She went on tour with “High Button Shoes,” which led to a role in the Broadway company of “Miss Liberty.” While in the play, Janice injured her foot and had to take a two-month layoff. They’d buy her ice cream sodas, and offer to help her with her American History. Between shows, she studied her lessons in the back room of the night club surrounded by night club employees. In the morning, she’d attend classes at the Glen Ellyn, Illinois, High School in the afternoon she studied ballet, and at night she worked in three shows at the famous Chez Paree in Chicago. By the time she was fifteen, she was in show business. When she was twelve, to help her family pay for the lessons, she’d baby-sit at night with the neighbors’ children. And truly intense about it.įrom the age of five, Janice has had one all-consuming desire-to be a dancer. Janice would rather work than eat or go to parties. They meant the pretty, well-proportioned teenager who played Bob’s vivacious daughter. When “Goodbye, My Fancy,” the Joan Crawford-Robert Young starrer, was previewed in 1951, the main comment on the preview cards was “Who is she?” They didn’t mean Joan Crawford. That is, if beauty, talent and determination have anything to do with it. Janice Rule is a name that’s bound to hit the marquees of the country.
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