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One of the most versatile actresses, Janice Rule was born in Norwood, Ohio, on August 15, 1931. Janice made her screen debut in the star-studded movie Goodbye, My Fancy (1951). She played the rival for James Stewart's affections, and was driven away by witch Kim Novak, in Bell Book and Candle (1958), a pre-Bewitched (1964) comedy. Janice appeared in the first season of the ground-breaking science fiction series The Twilight Zone (1959) playing "Helen Foley" (named after Rod Serling's favorite teacher). In 1961, Janice married Ben Gazzara and they had one daughter, Elizabeth Gazzara (they divorced in 1979). After marrying, Janice took off a few years from movie acting, then returned to the silver screen and gave her best performances. In a change of pace role, she was the party girl in The Chase (1966); and Janice showed a real flair for comedy as "Matt Helm"'s partner in The Ambushers (1967) with Dean Martin. She did a wonderful job realistically portraying a frontier woman in Welcome to Hard Times (1967), and received acclaim for her performance
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Janice Rule
Mary Janice Rule (August 15, 1931 – October 17, 2003) was an American actress "at her most convincing playing embittered, neurotic socialites".
Spouses
N. Richard Nash (1956–56) (divorced)
Robert Thom (1960–61) (divorced) 1 daughter
Ben Gazzara (1961–82) (divorced) 1 daughter
Children
Elizabeth Gazzara
Kate Thom Fitzgerald
Acting career
Janice Rule was born in Norwood, Ohio, to parents of Irish origin. Her father was a dealer in industrial diamonds.
She began dancing at the Chez Paree nightclub at fifteen, which paid for ballet lessons, and was a dancer in the 1949 Broadway production of Miss Liberty. Rule also studied acting at the Chicago Professional School.
She was pictured on the cover of Life magazine of January 8, 1951, as being someone to watch in the entertainment industry. Given a contract by Warner Bros., her first credited screen role was as Virginia in Goodbye, My Fancy (1951), which featured Joan Crawford in the lead. The established star belittled the younger woman, making her work on the film difficult, although Crawford years later
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Ms. Rule was 72 and had a mixed career of acting and (in the last twenty years) practicing as a psychoanalyst. In William Inge's Picnic, she was tempted by sexy drifter Hal, played by Ralph Meeker. Paul Newman, who was making his Broadway debut in 1953, played Alan. Ms. Rule's Broadway credits include playing Diana in The Happiest Girl in the World, a musical version of Lysistrata; The Night Circus (1958); Clifford Odets' The Flowering Peach (1954); the musical Great to Be Alive! (1950) and the Irving Berlin musical, Miss Liberty (1950).
Her film credits include "Goodbye, My Fancy" (her film debut in 1951), "Bell, Book and Candle," "Starlift," "Holiday for Sinners," "A Woman's Devotion" and later "The Swimmer" with Burt Lancaster and Robert Altman's "3 Women."
Ms. Rule was born Mary Janice Rule in Norwood, Ohio. Her father was a dealer in industrial diamonds. She was attracted to dance and acting at an early age and studied acting at the Chicago Professional School. She first appeared as a solo dancer at the Chez Paree in Chicago in 1946 and later danced in the
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