
Eilene Janssen was born in Los Angeles, California on May 25, 1938, to Henry Janssen and Mary Ellen Thompson.
She began her film career as a child actress in the early 1940s. With her father being a longtime worker for Universal Studios, Eilene Janssen made her first screen appearance in the 1940 film Sandy Gets Her Man. She continued to have bit parts in several movies such as Two Girls and a Sailor and It Happened Tomorrow. In 1944, she was awarded the title "Little Miss America".
As she grew older, she gained more prominent roles such as Elise in Song of Love and Peggy in The Boy with Green Hair. As a young adult she had a good role as the female lead in the 1957 Western film Escape from Red Rock.
The roles that explain the career.
17 credits across 1 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Panic in the City | Information Clerk | Film |
| 1963 | Black Zoo | Bride | Film |
| 1957 | Beginning of the End | William's Date | Film |
| 1956 | The Search for Bridey Murphy | Bridey Murphy Age 15 | Film |
| 1954 | About Mrs. Leslie | Pixie Croffman | Film |
| 1952 | Sally and Saint Anne | Young Jeanne | Film |
| 1952 | Wild Horse Ambush | Judy | Film |
| 1951 | Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas | Judy Dawson | Film |
| 1951 | The Dakota Kid | Judy Dawson | Film |
| 1948 | The Boy with Green Hair | Peggy | Film |
| 1948 | Borrowed Trouble | Child | Film |
| 1948 | Who Killed Doc Robbin? | Betty | Film |
| 1948 | On Our Merry Way | Peggy Thorndyke | Film |
| 1947 | Song of Love | Elise Schumann | Film |
| 1947 | Curley | Betty | Film |
| 1946 | The Green Years | Alison Keith as a child | Film |
| 1944 | Till We Meet Again | Yvonne | Film |
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