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  • Janis Paige dies at 101

    From DianeE@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 4 19:27:09 2024
    This is one of those "I didn't know she was still alive" stories. Janis
    Paige starred opposite "Bonnie's father" (John Raitt) in the 1954
    Broadway production of "The Pajama Game" which won a Tony award for Best Musical. That show spawned three pop hits: "Hey There," "Steam Heat,"
    and "Hernando's Hideaway." Janis Paige did not sing any of them but she
    did sing other songs in the show and on record.

    She also starred in the 1957 movie "Silk Stockings"--which I saw in
    1957!--in which she sang a duet with Fred Astaire called "Stereophonic
    Sound." You remember, don't you? "Technicolor and Cinemascope and stereophonic sound..."
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8jgTWlS1Y

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  • From roger@21:1/5 to DianeE on Wed Jun 5 04:51:01 2024
    DianeE wrote:

    This is one of those "I didn't know she was still alive" stories.
    Janis

    Paige starred opposite "Bonnie's father" (John Raitt) in the 1954
    Broadway production of "The Pajama Game" which won a Tony award for
    Best

    Musical. That show spawned three pop hits: "Hey There," "Steam Heat,"
    and "Hernando's Hideaway." Janis Paige did not sing any of them but
    she

    did sing other songs in the show and on record.

    She also starred in the 1957 movie "Silk Stockings"--which I saw in
    1957!--in which she sang a duet with Fred Astaire called "Stereophonic Sound." You remember, don't you? "Technicolor and Cinemascope and stereophonic sound..."
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8jgTWlS1Y

    For me Janis Paige shines as the fiesty ex-wife helping Peter Falk (as
    Columbo) discover whether Patrick O'Neal has really buried the murdered
    Forrest Tucker under the building he is constructing

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