Janet Munro

Date of Birth: September 28, 1934
Place of Birth: Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

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Janet Munro mini-bio: Date of Death 6 December 1972, London, England, UK. (acute myocarditis) Height 5' 6" (1.68 m) Mini Biography Cute, spunky, almond-eyed British actress Janet Munro was deemed to be an actress from day one as the daughter of a stage comedian. She grew up on British TV and was dubbed "Miss Television of 1958" by her fans. She caught the eye of Walt Disney and signed with him in 1959, charming a whole new generation of Britishers and Americans as the scrappy, spirited, brunette-banged ingénue of several box-office films, notably Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959), Third Man on the Mountain (1959), and Swiss Family Robinson (1960). After this Golden Globe winner for "most promising newcomer" outgrew Disney, she moved ahead and tried to alter her wholesome image with mature, spicier roles as unhappy, downtrodden women. Audiences didn't respond to this suddenly very mature and adult Janet Munro. Despite a BAFTA nomination for her role in Life for Ruth (1962), she began to see her career unraveling before her very eyes. Worse yet, she developed an acute alcohol problem to combat her unhappiness. Her marriages to actors Tony Wright and Ian Hendry fell by the wasteside and two miscarriages only deepened the suffering. Ironically, one of Janet's last screen roles was as a boozing pop star in the British film Sebastian (1968). Four years later Janet died. The immediate cause of her death was acute myocarditis; the underlying cause was chronic ischemic heart disease. She was only 38.

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angelwriter59

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posted 898 days ago
angelwriter59

Janet was born JANET NEILSON HORSBURGH on September 28th, 1934 in Blackpool, Lancashire, a major seaside resort on the north west coast of England, just north of Liverpool. JANET shares her birthday...same day, month and year...with French Screen Legend..Brigitte Bardot.

Her father, Alex Munro, a well known Scottish born comedian adopted the stage name Munro and in the years after Janet?s birth, further children, with his three subsequent wives, were given the surname Munro at birth.

Janet?s mother, Phyllis died when she was eight and she was raised by Lilias, Alex Munro?s second wife. Lilias was not only Janet?s step mother, but her big sister, her best friend and her guiding light. Sadly Lilias died in Blackpool in July 2004.

When Janet began to walk, she would often toddle across the stage as her father was entertaining an audience and on one occasion he looked around to catch her making an unscheduled entrance. ?Aw look at the size of it?, he exclaimed and that became his Catch Phrase?known the length and breadth of Britain. From then on his name appeared on Posters and Playbills as Alex ?The Size Of It? Munro.

posted 898 days ago
angelwriter59

Janet died from a Heart Attack caused by Chronic Ischaemic Heart Disease in Whittington Hospital, North London on December 6th1972. She was 38 years old.

posted 898 days ago