Born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA — Oct 15 1917• Died Feb 15 2004

Janice Miner (October 15, 1917 – February 15, 2004) was an American actress best known as the character Madge the manicurist in Palmolive dish-washing detergent television commercials from the 1960s to the 1990s. Janice Miner was the daughter of a dentist and a painter, and had three brothers, Sheldon, Donald and Lyndsey. She studied at the Vesper George School of Art in her native Boston, then studied acting under Lee Strasberg and others. She made her stage debut in 1945 in a Boston production of Elmer Rice's Street Scene. Miner then became establish…
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Edna Hodge



Elsie Knauf

Mother


Stella Wall

Aunt Agatha

Grace Harkness

Mother Superior


Mrs. Switzer
Ann Williams

Lillian Hunsacker

Sally Marr

Maria Kaufman

Cousin Daisy

Mrs. Abbott

Laurie Bembenek

Gertrude Stein