{{short description|American musical artist}} {{Infobox person | name = Janice Torre | image = Janice torre.jpg | birth_name = Janice Renée Torre | birth_date = {{birth date|1914|8|17}} | birth_place = New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1985|2|21|1914|8|17}} | death_place = New York City, U.S. | education = Tulane University {{small|(BA)}}<br>Yale University {{small|(MFA)}} | module = {{Infobox musical artist | embed = yes | genre = popular songs, motion picture and television musicals | occupation = Songwriter, lyricist | years_active = 1948–1962 }} }} '''Janice Renée Torre''' (August 17, 1914 – February 21, 1985) was a songwriter and lyricist best known for the song "Paper Roses", which she wrote with composer Fred Spielman.
==Early years== Janice Torre was born in New Orleans, the daughter of Peter Torre, an Italian immigrant developer in the oil industry, and Juanita Mottram.<ref>1930 US Census</ref> Janice graduated from Academy of the Sacred Heart (New Orleans), H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College of Tulane University, where she was president of her Senior Class, and Yale School of Drama. At Newcomb she was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi.<ref>Janice Torre Perky. Times Picayune Tuesday March 5, 1985 pA20</ref><ref>To Dragma - Volume 32, Issue 1 - Page 39. Alpha Omicron Pi - 1936</ref><ref>International Motion Picture Almanac - Page 320 - 1951</ref>
==Musical career== Janice Torre collaborated with the composer Fred Spielman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/31/nyregion/fred-spielman-songwriter-90.html|title=Fred Spielman, Songwriter, 90|date=31 March 1997|work=The New York Times|accessdate=7 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-fred-spielman-1264719.html|title=Obituary: Fred Spielman|website=Independent.co.uk |date=1 April 1997|publisher=|accessdate=7 August 2016}}</ref> Torre wrote song lyrics for the films ''All Shook Up'' with Elvis Presley, ''Tom Thumb'', ''Luxury Liner'' with Lauritz Melchior, ''In the Good Old Summertime'' with Judy Garland, ''Big City'', and ''Girls! Girls! Girls!'' (1962) with Elvis Presley.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868377/|title=Janice Torre|website=IMDb |publisher=|accessdate=7 August 2016}}</ref> Torre and Spielman wrote the television musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's ''A Christmas Carol'', titled The Stingiest Man in Town (1956)
==Personal and later years== Janice Torre was married to Gregory Manning Perky, a science teacher at the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans.<ref>Class project brings honors. Newman High School instructor wins award. Thursday, March 6, 1958. Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana) Page 28</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://staugustine.com/stories/022803/obi_obit20068051.shtml#.VjEMSrerRD8|title=Gregory M. Perky - StAugustine.com|publisher=|accessdate=7 August 2016|archive-date=18 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818195435/http://staugustine.com/stories/022803/obi_obit20068051.shtml#.VjEMSrerRD8|url-status=dead}}</ref> She composed her last film score in 1962. She died in New York City.
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