Vivi Janiss

Vivi Janiss was born Vivian Audrey Jamison on May 29, 1911. Source: Wikipedia: Vivi Janiss

She started out as a singer, a protegee of bandleader Ben Bernie who sang with his orchestra at Chicago's College Inn, and was then signed for the Ziegfeld Follies of 1934. Source: Wikipedia: Vivi Janiss

Radio logs usually spell her name Vivi Janis; under that spelling RadioGOLDINdex lists 166 programs, the earliest a Lux Radio Theatre broadcast of "The Awful Truth" on March 10, 1941. Source: RadioGOLDINdex: Vivi Janis

She was one of the supporting actors who filled the guest roles on radio's Gunsmoke. Source: Wikipedia: List of Gunsmoke (radio series) episodes

RadioGOLDINdex logs 23 of her Gunsmoke programs, from "Jaliscoe" (May 10, 1952) to 1957, and 23 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar programs from 1953 to 1956. Source: RadioGOLDINdex: Vivi Janis

The same index lists her in 13 Adventures of Philip Marlowe programs (1949 to 1951), 8 Escape programs (1949 to 1953) and 9 Family Theatre programs (1952 to 1954). Source: RadioGOLDINdex: Vivi Janis

She is listed among the other principal actors of radio's Dragnet. Source: Wikipedia: Dragnet (radio series)

On television she appeared on the Gunsmoke series and twice on The Twilight Zone, first in "The Fever" (1960). Source: Wikipedia: Vivi Janiss

She was married to Bob Cummings from 1935 to 1943 and later to actor John Larch, and died in Los Angeles on September 7, 1988. Source: Wikipedia: Vivi Janiss