Janet Margolin
Janet Margolin
Fresh out of New York's High School of Performing Arts, doe-eyed actress Janet Margolin was cast as an emotionally disturbed teenager in the Broadway production Daughter of Silence. Though the play didn't last long, Margolin's performance won her the similar role of a schizophrenic girl who speaks only in backward rhymes in the 1962 film David and Lisa. This award-winning assignment proved to be the high point of Margolin's career; most of her later roles (Mary of Bethany in 1965's The Greatest Story Ever Told, Gina Lollobrigida's daughter in 1968's Buona Sera Mrs. Campbell etc.) made but minimal demands on her acting skills. Better opportunities came her way in a brace of Woody Allen films, Take the Money and Run (1969) and Annie Hall (1977). On TV, Janet Margolin co-starred in the 1975 detective series Lanigan's Rabbi. Janet Margolin died of ovarian cancer at the age of 50; she was survived by her husband, actor Ted Wass. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Janet Margolin:
- The Greatest Story Ever Told with Max vonSydow , Dorothy McGuire , Robert Loggia , Claude Rains , Jose Ferrer , Charlton Heston , John Abbott , Rodolpho Acosta , Michael Ansara , Donald Pleasence , David McCallum , Roddy McDowall , Gary Raymond , Burt Brinckerhoff , Jamie Farr , David Hedison , Telly Savalas , Angela Lansbury , Paul Stewart , Harold J. Stone , Frank Silvera , Michael Tolan , Carroll Baker , Pat Boone , Sal Mineo , Van Heflin , Ed Wynn , Shelley Winters , John Lupton , Abraham Sofaer , Martin Landau , Nehemiah Persoff , Joseph Schildkraut , Victor Buono , John Wayne , Sidney Poitier , Richard Conte , Frank DeKova , Russell Johnson , Mickey Simpson , Richard Bakalyan , Robert Blake
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