{{Short description|American actress}} thumb|upright|Chandler reading at the beach, 1935 '''Janet Chandler''' (December 31, 1911<ref>William Harold Broughton, The Cleggs of Old Chatham: the ancestry, family, descendants of Thomas A. Clegg and Bridget Polk, their kin, and events of history, Clegg Family Association, 1977. p. 228; date obituary, ''Los Angeles Times'', March 17, 1994.</ref> – March 16, 1994) was a model and actress in American films. She had starring roles in several films of the 1930s. She began her film career as a child actress.<ref name=los/>
==Biography== Born '''Lillian Elizabeth Guenther''' in Pine Bluff, Arkansas to Albert John and Janet Elizabeth (Williams) Guenther, Chandler was a leading lady in the films ''The Golden West''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tildesley |first1=Alice L. |title="New Faces!" Growing Cry of Movie Barons |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/150262806 |access-date=9 March 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=16 Oct 1932 |page=SM4|id={{ProQuest|150262806}} }}</ref> and ''Cowboy Holiday''.<ref>{{cite web |title=16mm Sound-on-Film Motion Pictures |date=1936 |page=4 |url=https://archive.org/details/16mmsoundonfilmm1936film/page/4/mode/2up |access-date=March 9, 2021 |publisher=Films Incorporated}}</ref> After her family moved to Los Angeles, California, young Lillian attended girls schools (Harter, Orton).{{Citation needed |date=December 2024}} Chandler moved from New York to Hollywood in 1929 "to make the grade in pictures".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Thomas |first1=Dan |title=Here Are Rising Young Stars --- Peggy Shannon and Janet Chandler Should Not Be Overlooked as They Seem to Be on Their Way to Top |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/287366852/?match=1&terms=%22Janet%20Chandler%22%20actress |access-date=December 31, 2024 |work=The Newark Advocate and American Tribune |agency=NEA |date=November 12, 1932 |page=5|via = Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
Chandler married twice and had three daughters.{{Citation needed |date=December 2024}} On October 21, 1935, she married George Edward Barrett, a New York investment broker.<ref>{{cite news |title=Janet Chandler Married|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/101281776 |access-date=March 9, 2021|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 31, 1935|page=22|id={{ProQuest|101281776}} }}</ref> They divorced in 1947.{{Citation needed |date=December 2024}} She married, secondly, to playwright Joseph Kramm in 1956. That union also ended in divorce.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.bu.edu/finding-aid/finding_aid_122277.pdf|title=The Inventory of the Joseph Kramm Collection|website=Archives.bu.edu|access-date=October 25, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archives.bu.edu/collections/collection?id=122277|title=Collection - Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center|website=Archives.bu.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~lewgriffin/family/g0/p691.htm|title=Culpepper Family Tree (complete version) - Person Page|website=Freepages.rootsweb.com}}</ref>
Chandler died at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California on March 19, 1994, aged 82, of heart failure<ref name=los>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-03-28-mn-39297-story.html|title=Janet Chandler; Actress Starred in 1930s Films|date=March 28, 1994|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> and was interred in Bellwood Cemetery in her native Pine Bluff, Arkansas.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZraJCgAAQBAJ&q=janet+chandler+actress&pg=PA190|title=Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory|page=190|first=Allan R.|last=Ellenberger|date=May 1, 2001|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786450190|via=Google Books}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== *''The Three Musketeers'' (1921)<ref name=los/> (uncredited) *''Inez from Hollywood'' (1924) as Ruth Sullivan - Child (not billed) *''The Golden West'' (1932)<ref name=los/> * ''House of Danger'' (1934) as Sylvia Evans *''Cowboy Holiday'' (1934) as Ruth Hopkins *''Cyclone of the Saddle'' (1935) as Sue *''The Drunkard'' (1935) * ''Million Dollar Haul'' (1935) *''Rough Riding Ranger'' (1935) as Dorothy White *''Now or Never'' (1935) as Audrey Ferry *''Cyclone of the Saddle'' (1935) as Sue *''Show Girls''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C7Qh8xVipgYC&q=show+girls+janet+chandler&pg=PP288|title=Comprehensive Pictorial and Statistical Record of the 1994 Movie Season|first1=John|last1=Willis|first2=Barry|last2=Monush|date=February 1, 2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9781557832337|via=Google Books}}</ref> *''The Drunkard'' (1935) as Mary Wilson<ref name=los/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0151389}}
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