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- Birth nameJanice May Wilson
- Janis Wilson was born on February 9, 1930 in Santa Barbara, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), The Creeper (1948) and Watch on the Rhine (1943). She was married to Sidney Victor Petertyl. She died on November 17, 2003 in Spokane, Washington, USA.
- SpouseSidney Victor Petertyl(November 12, 1955 - November 17, 2003) (her death, 1 child)
- Met her future husband at age 12 on the Warner Brothers lot of "Now Voyager".
- Promising American juvenile actress who started quite big in a couple of Bette Davis' critically acclaimed tearjerkers of the early 1940s. After making her debut as Tina, an emotionally depressed child, who becomes the object of Davis' affection in Now, Voyager (1942), she moved directly in the role of Babette in the Lillian Hellman classic Watch on the Rhine (1943), as Davis' daughter. She retired from acting while still a teenager.
- Later became a pianist, organist and choir director.
- Janis Wilson passed on November 17, 2003 of a stroke in Spokane, Washington, where she lived with her husband, Sidney Peteryl. He passed away on June 6, 2007 in Spokane.
- Wilson claimed that, after filming The Creeper (1948) at the age of 18, she abandoned her acting career because she didn't photograph well.
- I am the last surviving witness to the filming of Casablanca (1942), which was being filmed on the set right next door. I used to slip over there and watch it.
- I was 12 years old, and had just come off of filming my first movie Now, Voyager (1942) and went right in to Watch on the Rhine (1943). We shot the movies back-to-back, because that's the way Bette Davis liked to do it.
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