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{{Short description|American actress (
{{Infobox person
| name = Janet Waldo
| image = Janet
| caption =
| birth_name = Jeanette Marie Waldo
| birth_date = February 4,
| birth_place = [[Yakima, Washington]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|6|12|
| death_place = [[Los Angeles
| resting_place = [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park]], U.S.
| occupation = Actress, voice artist
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'''Janet Waldo''' (born '''Jeanette Marie Waldo'''; February 4,
==Early life==
Jeanette Marie Waldo was born in [[Yakima, Washington]], on February
== Career ==
=== Radio, film and television ===
[[Image:corliss1.jpg|right|250px|thumb|[[Al Feldstein]], later the editor of ''[[Mad (magazine)|Mad]]'', was a writer-illustrator of the ''Meet Corliss Archer'' comic book. Waldo was depicted on the front cover twice, as herself and as Corliss.]]
Waldo appeared in several films in uncredited bit parts and small roles, although she was the [[leading lady]] in three [[Western (genre)|Westerns]], two of them starring [[Tim Holt]]. Her big break came in radio with a part on [[Cecil B. DeMille]]'s ''[[Lux Radio Theater]]''. In her radio career, she lent her voice to many programs, including [[Edward G. Robinson]]'s ''[[Big Town]]'', ''[[The Eddie Bracken Show]]'', ''Favorite Story'', ''[[Four Star Playhouse (radio program)|Four Star Playhouse]]'', ''The Gallant Heart'', ''[[One Man's Family]]'', ''[[Sears Radio Theater]]'', and ''[[Stars over Hollywood (radio program)|Stars over Hollywood]]''.
She co-starred with [[Jimmy Lydon]] in the CBS situation comedy ''[[Young Love (radio series)|Young Love]]'' (1949–50), and she had recurring roles on ''[[The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet]]'' (as teenager Emmy Lou), ''[[The Red Skelton Show]]'', and ''[[People Are Funny]]''. She recorded with jazz vocalist [[Mel Torme]] and his vocal group the [[Mel-Tones]]. Her eight-year run starring as teenager Corliss Archer on [[CBS]]'s ''[[Meet Corliss Archer]]'' left a lasting impression, though [[Shirley Temple]] starred in the film adaptations, ''Kiss and Tell'' and ''A Kiss for Corliss''. The radio program was the CBS answer to [[NBC]]'s popular ''[[A Date with Judy]]''. Despite the long run of ''Meet Corliss Archer'', fewer than 24 episodes are known to exist. Waldo later turned down the offer to portray Corliss in [[Meet Corliss Archer (TV series)|a television adaptation]] (the role was recast with [[Ann Baker]] taking the role for TV).<ref name=amg/>
In 1948, the ''Meet Corliss Archer'' comic book, using Waldo's likeness, published by [[Fox Feature Syndicate]], appeared for a run of three issues from March to July 1948, using the original scripts. On April 1, 1948, Waldo married playwright [[Robert E. Lee (playwright)|Robert E. Lee]], the writing partner of [[Jerome Lawrence]]. The couple had two children, and remained married until his death in 1994.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/09/obituaries/robert-e-lee-75-playwright-inherit-the-wind-co-author.html|title=Robert E. Lee, 75, Playwright; 'Inherit the Wind' Co-Author|first=Bruce|last=Weber|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 9, 1994}}</ref>
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According to [[Iwao Takamoto]] by the time of the film's release, Tiffany's fame had waned. He quipped, "The punch line, of course, is that fifteen years after the fact, Janet Waldo is still working while for most people, saying the name Tiffany automatically brings to mind a [[Tiffany lamp|lamp]]."<ref>{{cite book|first=Iwao|last=Takamoto|author-link=Iwao Takamoto|title=Iwao Takamoto: My Life with a Thousand Characters|url={{Google books|ipFG84BN9oIC|page=172|plainurl=yes}}|year=2009|publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]]|isbn=978-1604731934|page=172}}</ref>
Ultimately, Waldo patched things up with Hanna-Barbera and continued acting on their television series, and at no point did she have any ill feelings towards Tiffany herself. The movie version of ''The Jetsons'' was a box-office disappointment and a critical failure with most of the negative reviews directed at Tiffany's acting and the replacement of the original voice of Judy Jetson.<ref name=amg/><ref>{{cite news|title=For Some Readers, Tiffany Is No Jetson|first=Christina Y.|last=Chang|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=July 15, 1990|url=https://
==Personal life and death==
Waldo married playwright Robert E. Lee
▲Waldo married playwright Robert E. Lee in 1948. They remained married until his death in 1994.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news |last1=Slotnik |first1=Daniel E. |title=Janet Waldo, Voice of Judy Jetson, Dies at 96 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/arts/television/janet-waldo-voice-of-judy-jetson-dies-at-96.html |access-date=September 13, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=June 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616144955/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/arts/television/janet-waldo-voice-of-judy-jetson-dies-at-96.html |archive-date=June 16, 2022 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/09/obituaries/robert-e-lee-75-playwright-inherit-the-wind-co-author.html|title=Robert E. Lee, 75, Playwright; 'Inherit the Wind' Co-Author|first=Bruce|last=Weber|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 9, 1994}}</ref> Together they had two children: Jonathan Barlow Lee (born 1952) and Lucy V. Lee (born 1956).<ref name="nytimes.com"/><ref name="ReferenceA"/>
Waldo died on June 12, 2016, at the age of
==Filmography==
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