
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.
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as Aunt Agatha · 1 episode
as Mother Superior
as Mrs. Abbott
as Edna Hodge · 1 episode

as Laurie Bembenek

as Gertrude Stein
as Stella Wall · 1 episode
as Mrs. Switzer
as Maria Kaufman

as Cousin Daisy

as Sally Marr
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as Lillian Hunsacker
as Grace Harkness · 1 episode
as Elsie Knauf · 1 episode

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as Ann Williams · 54 episodes

as Lesley · 14 episodes
as Mother · 1 episode
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