Janette Craig
Janette Craig is an Australian actress best known for her performance as Bubba in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959).
Biography[edit]
She worked as an assistant manager at the Comedy Theatre.[1] In 1957 she was voted Miss New South Wales. The following year she married British composer Eric Rasdall. She had a regular role on Australia's first soap opera, Autumn Affair but had to leave it to feature in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.[2][3]
She retired from acting when her young daughter fell ill and moved into production.[4]
Select credits[edit]
- The Adventures of Long John Silver - "The Pink Pearl" (1954)
- My Three Angels/Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) - stage performances
- Tomorrow's Child (1957)
- The Art of Being Happily Married (1957) radio play[5]
- The Big Knife (1957) - stage performance[6]
- Killer in Close Up - "The Trial of Madeleine Smith" (1958) - as Madeleine Smith
- Arrow in the Air (1958) radio play[7]
- Autumn Affair (1958–59) - series regular
- Tell Me Now (1958) radio play[8]
- Dear Miss Austen (1958) radio play[9]
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959)[10]
- The High Cost of Loving (1959) - radio play[11]
- Tale from the Vienna Woods (1959) radio play[12]
- Whiplash - episodes "The Canoomba Affair", "A Dilemma in Wool", "Act of Courage"
- Adventure Unlimited (filmed 1963, shown 1965) - "The Witness" shot on location in New Guinea[13]
- Richard Whittington Esquire (1964)
- Boeing Boeing (1964) - stage performance, Palace Theatre[14]
- Festival (Canadian TV show) - "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll" (1965)
References[edit]
- ^ http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71694926
- ^ McPherson, Ailsa (2007). "Dramas and dreams at Epping: early days of ATN-7's drama production". ACH: The Journal of the History of Culture in Australia (26). Australian Public Intellectual Network: 153–170 – via Gale Academic OneFile.
- ^ "TELEVISION PARADE". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 26, no. 22. Australia, Australia. 5 November 1958. p. 66. Retrieved 16 April 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "JANETTE CRAIG,WOMAN OF STYLE: IN I957 SHE WAS MISS NSW; BUT SHE GAVE IT UP... " I've never looked back"". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 49, no. 29. Australia, Australia. 30 December 1981. p. 31. Retrieved 16 April 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Australian Broadcasting Commission. "A.B.C. Radio plays for next week", ABC Weekly Sydney: ABC, 1939. Web. 16 April 2023 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1555874323>
- ^ "SUNDRY SHOWS TALKIES THEATRE MUSIC ART Stage and Music", The bulletin Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880. Web. 16 April 2023 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-697282626>
- ^ Australian Broadcasting Commission. "Commercial Radio Plays", ABC Weekly Sydney: ABC, 1939. Web. 16 April 2023 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1435661323>
- ^ Australian Broadcasting Commission. "Commercial Radio Plays", ABC Weekly Sydney: ABC, 1939. Web. 16 April 2023 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1448612898>
- ^ Australian Broadcasting Commission. "Commercial Radio Plays", ABC Weekly Sydney: ABC, 1939. Web. 16 April 2023 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1448917620>
- ^ "Entertainment Scoop shots from "THE DOLL"". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 27, no. 18. Australia, Australia. 7 October 1959. p. 81. Retrieved 16 April 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Australian Broadcasting Commission. (1939). THE WEEK’S PLAYS, ABC Weekly Retrieved April 16, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1414236472
- ^ Australian Broadcasting Commission. "Commercial Radio Plays", ABC Weekly Sydney: ABC, 1939. Web. 16 April 2023 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1527140768>
- ^ "SOCIAL ROUNDABOUT". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 30, no. 52. Australia, Australia. 29 May 1963. p. 8. Retrieved 16 April 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "AT SYDNEY THEATRES". Le Courrier Australien. No. 10. New South Wales, Australia. 6 March 1964. p. 5. Retrieved 16 April 2023 – via National Library of Australia.