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Janis (other)
Janis may refer to: Film and music * ''Janis'' (film), a 1974 film about Janis Joplin ** ''Janis'' (1975 album), a compilation and the soundtrack album for the film ** ''Janis'' (1993 album), a Joplin career overview collection * "Janis", a track recorded by Focus on their 1971 album '' Focus II'' Fictional characters * Janis Gold, in the TV series ''24'' *Janis Day, in the comic strip '' Arlo and Janis'' *Janis Hawk, in the TV series ''FlashForward'' *Janis Ian, in the film '' Mean Girls'' *Janis (ジャニス, "Janisu"), in '' Inuyasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel'' People * Janis (given name) * Jānis, a Latvian masculine given name * Byron Janis (born 1928), American concert pianist (no relation to Conrad Janis) *Conrad Janis (1928–2022), American actor and jazz musician (no relation to Byron Janis) *Dorothy Janis (1912 –2010), American silent film actress * Elsie Janis (1889–1956), American musical theatre and vaudeville performer * Irving Janis, a social psychologist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janis (film)
''Janis'' is a 1974 Canadian-American documentary film about the rock singer Janis Joplin. The film was directed by Howard Alk with much assistance from Albert Grossman, Joplin's manager. It was available on videocassette in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, but DVD versions have been released only in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. In late 2011, it was added to Hulu's movie collection for online viewing. Part of the film soundtrack is included on the 1975 album ''Janis (1975 album), Janis''. Summary The film consists entirely of archival footage of Joplin. It includes rehearsals, her June 25, 1970 appearance on ''The Dick Cavett Show'', footage from her Woodstock performance in 1969 (dancing with her band's saxophone player during an instrumental break), and another television segment videotaped in black & white in April 1967 before she became famous. Much screen time is devoted to Joplin's 1969 European tour, including an interview with Joplin during her stay in St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Janis
Dorothy Janis (born Dorothy Penelope Jones, February 19, 1912 – March 10, 2010) was an American actress. Early life Born as Dorothy Penelope Jones in Dallas, Texas, her short film career began when she was visiting a cousin, who was working on a film for Fox Film Corporation in 1927. Her beauty was noticed at once and she was asked to make a screen test. Janis went on to make six films: five silents and one talkie. Film career Janis' only talkie film was ''Lummox'' (1930) based on the Fannie Hurst novel. This film, released by United Artists, now only exists as a single nitrate print at the British Film Institute. Janis was best known for playing opposite Ramon Novarro in the MGM film '' The Pagan'' (1929), for which MGM publicity portrayed her as half-Cherokee. ''The Pagan'', directed by W. S. Van Dyke, was a part-sound film, with music and sound effects only, and featured "Pagan Love Song" on the soundtrack. Retirement, marriage, and later life Janis retired in 1930 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jani (other)
Jani may refer to: * Jani (given name) * Jani (surname) * Jani, Iran, a village * Jāņi Jāņi () is an annual Latvians, Latvian festival celebrating the summer solstice. Although, astronomically the solstice falls on the 21st or 22nd of June, the public holidays—Līgo Day and Jāņi Day—are on the 23rd and 24th of June. The d ..., a Latvian summer solstice festival * ''Jani'' (film), a 2017 Kannada film * Jani (letter), a Georgian letter See also * Alternate forms for the name John * Jaani (other) * Janis (other) * Janni, a given name and surname * Jyani (other) * Baba Jani (other) * Jani-King, a cleaning service company {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janus (other)
Janus is the two-faced Roman god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings. Janus may also refer to: Computing * Janus (concurrent constraint programming language) * Janus (DRM), a Microsoft Digital Rights Management platform * Janus (protocol), a file transfer protocol for use on bulletin board systems * Janus (time-reversible computing programming language) * JANUS clinical trial data repository, a standard supported by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration * Janus Recognition Toolkit (JRTk), a general purpose speech recognition toolkit * Janus, a codename used for Windows 2000 (DEC Alpha and Itanium 64-bit editions) * Janus attack, an alternative name of a Man-in-the-middle attack People * Janus (given name) * Janus (surname) * Janus Prospero from the ''Resident Evil'' film series * Janus of Cyprus (1375–1432), king of Cyprus from 1398 to 1432 * Janus I, Duke of Masovia * J'anus, the claimed stage name of Janis McGavin, a performer on ''Balls of Steel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivi Janiss
Vivi Janis (born Vivian Audrey Jamison; May 29, 1911 – September 7, 1988) was an American actress, known for such films as ''The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues'' (1955), ''Man on the Prowl (film), Man on the Prowl'' (1957), and ''First, You Cry'' (1978). Career Vivi Janiss's father was Earl Alexander Jamison, born August 3, 1889, in Nebraska, and died June 17, 1962, in California. He was married to Helen Matilda Jamison née Liljgren. They were traveling theatricals in the Midwest in the 1920s and 1930s, eventually settling in California. Vivi was their only child. A native of Nebraska, she was the second wife of actor and comedian Robert Cummings, Bob Cummings, to whom she was wed from 1935 to 1943. The couple met while performing in 1934 in the ''Ziegfeld Follies'' on Broadway theatre, Broadway. In the 1934 Follies, Bob Cummings, performing under the stage name of Brice Hutchins, and Vivi (billed as Vivian Janis) on January 4, 1934 gave the first live performance of the Vernon D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Janis
Sidney Janis (July 8, 1896 – November 23, 1989) was a wealthy clothing manufacturer and art collector who opened an art gallery in New York in 1948. His gallery quickly gained prominence, for he not only exhibited work by the Abstract Expressionists, but also European artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, and Piet Mondrian. As the critic Clement Greenberg explained in a 1958 tribute to Janis, the dealer's exhibition practices had helped to establish the legitimacy of the Americans, for his policy "not only implied, it declared, that Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Phillip Guston, Mark Rothko, and Robert Motherwell were to be judged by the same standards as Matisse and Picasso, without condescension, without making allowances." Greenberg observed that in the late 1940s "the real issue was whether ambitious artists could live in this country by what they did ambitiously. Sidney Janis helped as much as anyone to see that it was decided af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linzie Janis
Linzie Janis (born June 23, 1979) is a former American television journalist. She was a correspondent at ABC News based in New York. She reported for all ABC News programs and platforms, including "Good Morning America", " World News Tonight with David Muir", "Nightline", and " 20/20". Career ABC News Janis joined ABC News in 2013. Since then, she has covered a number of breaking stories including: the 2016 bombings in New York and New Jersey; the attack on Orlando's Pulse Nightclub; the terror attack in Nice, France; the earthquake in Ecuador; the sinking of the El Faro cargo ship; and the manhunt for two escaped convicts from a maximum security prison in New York. Janis was the first television journalist to sit down with Hulk Hogan after his legal victory over Gawker Media. In 2013, she broke news about the New York AG's lawsuit against Trump University, interviewing alleged victims of fraud and Donald Trump. Janis has also reported on a number of social issues, fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Antonín Janiš
Josef Antonín Janiš (Germanized as Joseph Janisch; 6 February 1749 – 15 November 1821) was a Czech Catholic priest and beekeeper. He wrote several books on bee-keeping in the Czech language and in 1789 he was among the first to suggest parthenogenetic development of drones from the eggs of unfertilized queen bees. Biography Janiš was born in Lanškroun and studied theology. He became a parish priest at Hostivař near Prague in 1789. Between 1777 and 1804 he translated several works into Czech including a work on bees by Anton Janša in 1777 under the pseudonym J. A. Trutnovský. He also wrote a book on flax Flax, also known as common flax or linseed, is a flowering plant, ''Linum usitatissimum'', in the family Linaceae. It is cultivated as a food and fiber crop in regions of the world with temperate climates. In 2022, France produced 75% of t ... cultivation in 1816. He practiced beekeeping and wrote on both agriculture and apiculture. In 1796 he moved to Hněv� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaroslav Janiš
Jaroslav "Jarek" Janiš (born 8 July 1983) is a Czech auto racing driver. In 2006 he is racing in the FIA GT Championship. He has taken three pole positions Brno, Dijon and the Hungaroring turning two of them into victories, teamed with Sascha Bert and occasionally former Formula One driver Andrea Montermini. Prior to 2006 he had done six GT Championship races, four of them in a Ferrari 360 Modena for the Menx team in 2003, taking a total of 17.5 points. He was born in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia, and has a record in single-seater competition. Jarek finished 7th in the German Formula Ford series in 1999, and was 2nd in that series (and 4th in the European Formula Ford series) a year later. By the end of 2001 he had a chance to fill in for countryman Tomáš Enge in the final round of the International Formula 3000 series at Monza. He finished 3rd overall in the European series in 2002, and raced the international series in 2003. He made his Champ Car debut for Dale Coyne Racing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving Janis
Irving Lester Janis (May 26, 1918 – November 15, 1990) was an American research psychologist at Yale University and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley most famous for his theory of "groupthink", which described the systematic errors made by groups when making collective decisions. A ''Review of General Psychology'' survey, published in 2002, ranked Janis as the 79th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. Early years Irving Janis was born on May 26, 1918, in Buffalo, New York. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Chicago in 1939, then received a Doctor of Philosophy in psychology from Columbia University in 1950. Career During the Second World War, Janis was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he carried out studies of military morale. In 1947, Janis became a faculty member of the Yale University Psychology Department, where he remained for nearly forty years. He collaborated with Carl Hovland on his studies of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsie Janis
Elsie Janis (born Elsie Bierbower, March 16, 1889 – February 26, 1956) was an American actress of stage and screen, singer, songwriter, screenwriter and radio announcer. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as " the sweetheart of the AEF" (American Expeditionary Force). Early life Elsie Bierbower was born in Marion, Ohio, the daughter of Josephine Janis and John Eleazer Bierbower. She had a brother, Percy John. Stage Bierbower debuted on stage in 1896 in a production of ''East Lynne'' at Columbus's Southern Theatre. By age 11, she was a headliner on the vaudeville circuit, performing under the name Little Elsie. As she matured, using the stage name Elsie Janis, she began perfecting her comedic skills. Acclaimed by American and British critics, Janis was a headliner on Broadway and London. On Broadway, she starred in a number of successful shows, including ''The Vanderbilt Cup'' (1906), ''The Hoyden'' (1907), ''The Slim Princess'' (1911), and ''The Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Janis
Conrad Janis (February 11, 1928 – March 1, 2022) was an American jazz trombonist and actor who starred in film and television during the Golden Age Era in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued acting right up until 2012. He played the role of Mindy McConnell's father Frederick in 53 episodes of ''Mork & Mindy,'' and appeared in many guest-starring roles on several notable television shows throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, such as the sitcoms '' Maude'', ''The Golden Girls'', and ''Frasier''. Early life Janis was born in Manhattan on February 11, 1928. His father, Sidney, was an art dealer and writer; his mother, Harriet (Grossman), was also a writer. He had one brother, Carroll.Uhl, Jin (September 2002). "For Conrad Janis, Acting and Jazz Share the Spotlight". ''The Mississippi Rag''. pp. 1-9. Bloomington, Minn. Janis successfully auditioned as an actor for a road company at the age of 13 and consequently spent the next two years with them. He also began doing radio vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
