
Lisa Montell
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Lisa Janti is known as Lisa Montell as a Hollywood actress of the 1950-60s, and then shifted her career to one of advocacy and service to various disadvantaged groups and to her adopted religion, the Bahá'í Faith.
Lisa Janti, known as Lisa Montell as a Hollywood actress of the 1950-60s, was born Irena Ludmila Vladimirovna Augustynowic of Russian-Polish ancestry, and her family fled to Poland before World War II. On arrival in New York they changed their last name to Montwill so she grew up Irene Montwill. They lived in New York and Janti attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. After becoming involved in English-speaking theatre she was noticed by Hollywood producer Dick Welding who offered her a part in Daughter of the Sun God, filmed in Peru c. 1953 with actor William Holmes. Shortly afterwards her father died and the family chose to follow the opportunity Hollywood was giving her with her career. Her first role may have been in 1954 in the TV series The Public Defender, based on the film of the same name.
On television she was on the Cheyenne show episode "Border Showdown" (Showdown in Paso Also) of 1955 and the 1956 Jane Wyman's Fireside Theater episode "A Time to live" and the Sugarfoot show episode "Guns for Big Bear" in 1958. In 1962 she was in Combat! episode "A Day in June".
Janti was known as the "Starlet of many faces" probably portraying more diverse ethnic roles though she was Polish including Polynesian, Native American, Mexican, Burmese, French, Italian, Spanish, east Indian and Persian – roles with dubious cultural and sexist stereotypes. Among the productions Janti was cast in are She Gods of Shark Reef, Ten Thousand Bedrooms, Pearl of the South Pacific, Jump Into Hell, The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold, and World Without End.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.861 |
Birthday | 1933-07-05 |
Place of Birth | Warsaw, Poland |
Also Known As | Irene Montwill , Lisa Janti, |

1957

Naked Paradise
3.8/4
Gangster Zac Cotton and his two henchmen, Mitch and Sonny, try to get a boat to get off a tropical island after a botched robbery heist.
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Naked Paradise

1956

World Without End
5.7/49
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first una...
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1958

She Gods of Shark Reef
3.2/21
Two brothers, one wanted for murder, are shipwrecked on an island inhabited by nubile young women who have amassed a valuable cache of pearls.
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She Gods of Shark Reef

1955

Escape to Burma
5.8/8
A fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen Moore.
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Escape to Burma

1955

Pearl of the South Pacific
6.091/11
Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has mad...
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Pearl of the South Pacific

1958

The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
6.5/17
Three Indians were brutally murdered by a gang of hooded outlaws. Each one possessed a silver medallion, which were sections cut off from a large silv...
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The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold

1957

Tomahawk Trail
5.7/10
Led by an incompetent Lieutenant, a troop of soldiers is on the Tomahawk Trail in Apache territory. When he lets the Indians steal their horses and ge...
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Tomahawk Trail

1955

Jump Into Hell
4/4
Arriving in IndoChina by parachute, Captain Guy Bertrand and his comrades make a courageous stand against the Communist forces. Jump into Hell is one...
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Jump Into Hell

1958

The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca
7/2
Wherever this man went--there was trouble. Death stalked him at every turn. Elfego Baca is "The man who couldn't be killed!"
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The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca

1962

Daughter of the Sun God
3/1
This adventure chronicles the exploits of an author/explorer on a trip to Peru to hunt for the missing uncle of his pretty young companion. Her archae...
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Daughter of the Sun God

1955

Daddy Long Legs
6.3/85
Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her edu...
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Daddy Long Legs

1956

The Wild Dakotas
0/0
When Aaron Baring signs on as wagon master for a group of settlers headed to Montana's Powder River Valley, his dictatorial style soon creates problem...
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The Wild Dakotas

1961

The Long Rope
5/3
A judge in a murder trial, believing the defendant is innocent, sets out to find the real killer.
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The Long Rope

1962

The Firebrand
6/1
A Mexican outlaw begins a one-man war against corrupt California Rangers who are harassing Hispanic locals during the California Gold Rush.
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The Firebrand

1956

Gaby
7/1
A ballerina resorts to prostitution when her fiance is reported killed in World War II.
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Gaby

1957

Ten Thousand Bedrooms
5/7
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1955

Finger Man
5.5/13
An ex-con is inspired to go undercover and "finger" the mob after finding out his sister is hooked on illegal drugs.
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