Jan Miner (October , â€" February , ) was an American actress best
known for her role as the character "Madge", the manicurist in
Palmolive dish-washing detergent television commercials beginning in
the s.Jan Miner, the daughter of a dentist and a painter, whose
siblings included three brothers, Sheldon, Donald and Lyndsey, studied
at the Vesper George School of Art in her native Boston,
Massachusetts. She went on to study acting with Lee Strasberg and
others before making her stage debut in in a Boston production of
Elmer Rice's Street Scene.Miner then became a well-established actress
on radio, and through the s was one of many busy performers working in
multiple series simultaneously. Among other roles, she was one of
three sequential actresses who voiced secretary Della Street on Perry
Mason, one of five to play girlfriend Ann Williams on Casey, Crime
Photographer, and Mary Wesley on Boston Blackie.Miner played featured
roles in the - dramatic anthology series Radio City Playhouse
("Soundless", "Portrait of Lenore," et al.). It was, though, her
appearance in the premiere broadcast of the series that "created a
minor sensation in the play Long Distance"; the episode proved so
popular that she repeated her performance later in the season.
known for her role as the character "Madge", the manicurist in
Palmolive dish-washing detergent television commercials beginning in
the s.Jan Miner, the daughter of a dentist and a painter, whose
siblings included three brothers, Sheldon, Donald and Lyndsey, studied
at the Vesper George School of Art in her native Boston,
Massachusetts. She went on to study acting with Lee Strasberg and
others before making her stage debut in in a Boston production of
Elmer Rice's Street Scene.Miner then became a well-established actress
on radio, and through the s was one of many busy performers working in
multiple series simultaneously. Among other roles, she was one of
three sequential actresses who voiced secretary Della Street on Perry
Mason, one of five to play girlfriend Ann Williams on Casey, Crime
Photographer, and Mary Wesley on Boston Blackie.Miner played featured
roles in the - dramatic anthology series Radio City Playhouse
("Soundless", "Portrait of Lenore," et al.). It was, though, her
appearance in the premiere broadcast of the series that "created a
minor sensation in the play Long Distance"; the episode proved so
popular that she repeated her performance later in the season.
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