Janet Blair

b. Martha Janet Lafferty, 23 Apr 1921, Altoona, Pa, USA, d. 19 Feb 2007, Santa Monica, California, USA. A music group singer who continued to become popular film celebrity, Blair changed Nan Wynn within the well-known Hal Kemp Music group in the past due 30s, and continued to be there until Kemp passed away in an car accident in Dec 1940. After performing over the Kemp record strikes ‘Therefore You’re The One’ and ‘Walkin’ BY River’, as well as other sides such as for example ‘Meet SUNLIGHT Half-Way’, ‘I Can’t Like You Any Even more’, ‘The Gal Who Took ANOTHER Appear’ and ‘Talkin’ To My Center’, in 1941 she produced her film debut within the amusing B-movie, Three Young ladies About City, and subsequently made an appearance in the display screen musicals Broadway, Something To Shout About, Tonight And EVERY EVENING, Tars And Spars, The Fabulous Dorseys, and THE BEST Genuine Original Family members Music group. In 1950 she going the united states touring firm of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s South Pacific, sticking to the show for about 3 years of its nearly five-year run. Afterwards, she sang in nightclubs, and through the past due 50s and 60s made an appearance often on US tv, featuring prominently within the Smith Family members series in the first 70s.