Janis Wilson passed away in/around 2004, at the age of 74 of a stroke in Spokane, Washington, where she lived with her husband, Sidney Peteryl. He passed away in 2007 or so.
Later became a pianist, organist and choir director.
Promising American juvenile actress who started quite big in a couple of Bette Davis' critically acclaimed tearjerkers of the early 1940s. After making her debut as Tina, an emotionally depressed child, who becomes the object of Davis' affection in Now, Voyager (1942), she moved directly in the role of Babette in the Lillian Hellman classic Watch on the Rhine (1943), as Davis' daughter. She retired from acting while still a teenager.
She and her husband moved to Spokane, Washington in 1994, where she still resides.
She claims that after making the movie The Creeper (1948) at the age of 18, she abandoned her acting career because she didn't photograph well.