Janette Craig Explained

Janette Craig is an Australian actress best known for her performance in television soap opera Autumn Affair and as Bubba in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959).

Biography

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 and moved into production when her young daughter fell ill.^[4]

Select credits

• 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)

External links

• Janette Craig at IMDb

Notes and References

1. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71694926
2. 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 . Australian Public Intellectual Network . 26 . 153–170 . Gale Academic OneFile.
3. News: TELEVISION PARADE . . 26 . 22 . Australia, Australia . 5 November 1958 . 16 April 2023 . 66 . National Library of Australia.
4. News: JANETTE CRAIG,WOMAN OF STYLE: IN I957 SHE WAS MISS NSW; BUT SHE GAVE IT UP... " I've never looked back" . . 49 . 29 . Australia, Australia . 30 December 1981 . 16 April 2023 . 31 . National Library of Australia.
5. Australian Broadcasting Commission. "A.B.C. Radio plays for next week", ABC Weekly Sydney: ABC, 1939. Web. 16 April 2023
6. "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
7. Australian Broadcasting Commission. "Commercial Radio Plays", ABC Weekly Sydney: ABC, 1939. Web. 16 April 2023
8. Australian Broadcasting Commission. "Commercial Radio Plays", ABC Weekly Sydney: ABC, 1939. Web. 16 April 2023
9. Australian Broadcasting Commission. "Commercial Radio Plays", ABC Weekly Sydney: ABC, 1939. Web. 16 April 2023
10. News: Entertainment Scoop shots from "THE DOLL" . . 27 . 18 . Australia, Australia . 7 October 1959 . 16 April 2023 . 81 . National Library of Australia.
11. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (1939). THE WEEK’S PLAYS, ABC Weekly Retrieved April 16, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1414236472
12. Australian Broadcasting Commission. "Commercial Radio Plays", ABC Weekly Sydney: ABC, 1939. Web. 16 April 2023
13. News: SOCIAL ROUNDABOUT . . 30 . 52 . Australia, Australia . 29 May 1963 . 16 April 2023 . 8 . National Library of Australia.
14. News: AT SYDNEY THEATRES . . 10 . New South Wales, Australia . 6 March 1964 . 16 April 2023 . 5 . National Library of Australia.