LOIS JANUARY

Lois January was an actress from the 1930s to the 1960s. She had a promising start, appearing in Universal's "By Candlelight", and she was signed to a contract, but they didn't find much for her, and she was loaned to Columbia. When her Universal contract was up, she signed with Republic, and appeared in several of their westerns. Surely, her most memorable role was as the manicurist buffing up Judy Garland's nails in 1939's "The Wizard of Oz"! During World War II, she had her own radio program as the voice of "The Revelry Girl" who woke the GIs up with up-to-date news. She had talent as a singer, and in the 1940s, she appeared on Broadway and then sang in New York nightclubs, still appearing in a few movies, making her last in 1961, and doing some TV. She passed away in 2006 at the age of 93.