Eilene Janssen
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 Beverly Hillbillies
It Happened Tomorrow
The Boy with Green Hair
Beginning of the End
Father Knows Best
On Our Merry Way
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
The Green Years
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Black Zoo
Song of Love
The Search for Bridey Murphy