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Jan Miner

Jan Miner
  • Name: Jan Miner
  • Birthday: 1917-10-15
  • Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Popularity: 2.713
Biography: Janice Miner (October 15, 1917 – February 15, 2004) was an American actress best known as the character Madge the manicurist in Palmolive dish-washing detergent television commercials from the 1960s to the 1990s. Janice Miner was the daughter of a dentist and a painter, and had three brothers, Sheldon, Donald and Lyndsey. She studied at the Vesper George School of Art in her native Boston, then studied acting under Lee Strasberg and others. She made her stage debut in 1945 in a Boston production of Elmer Rice's Street Scene. Miner then became established on radio, and worked through the 1950s in several series simultaneously. Among other roles, she was one of three actresses who played... Read More

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Title Release date
Mermaids   as  Mother Superior 1990-12-14
Used Innocence   as  Laurie Bembenek 1989-02-22
Gertrude Stein and a Companion!   as  Gertrude Stein 1987-06-01
Endless Love   as  Mrs. Switzer 1981-07-17
Willie and Phil   as  Maria Kaufman 1980-08-15
F.D.R.: The Last Year   as  Cousin Daisy 1980-05-15
Out of Our Fathers' House 1978-08-02
Lenny   as  Sally Marr 1974-11-10
The Swimmer   as  Lillian Hunsacker 1968-08-09