Janet Banzet
{{short description|American actress}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Janet Banzet
| birth_name = Jeanette Banzet
| image = Janet Banzet.jpg
| other_names = Marie Brent
| caption = Janet Banzet
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|05|17|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Dallas, Texas, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1971|7|29|1934|05|17|mf=y}}
| death_place = New York City, U.S.{{cite book|last=Doyle|first=Billy H.|last2=Slide|first2=Anthony|title=The Ultimate Directory of Silent and Sound Era Performers: A Necrology of Actors and Actresses|year=1999|publisher=Scarecrow Press|page=31|isbn=978-0-8108-3547-4|id={{ISBN|0-8108-3547-9}}}}
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1961–1971
| website =
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Janet Banzet (May 17, 1934 – July 29, 1971), also credited as Marie Brent and several other names, was an American actress who appeared in several sexploitation films of the late 1960s and early 1970s.{{cite book|last=Munden|first=Kenneth White|title=The American Film Institute Catalog 1961-1970|year=1976|publisher=University of California Press|page=38|isbn=0-520-20970-2}} She starred in several provocatively titled films directed by Michael Findlay and Joseph W. Sarno. She had a small role in the 1970 adult film The Party at Kitty and Stud's better known later under the title Italian Stallion which was Sylvester Stallone's film debut.[http://www.playboy.com/arts-entertainment/features/sylvester-stallone/sylvester-stallone-04.html Sylvester Stallone interview] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606223229/http://www.playboy.com/arts-entertainment/features/sylvester-stallone/sylvester-stallone-04.html |date=2011-06-06 }}, Playboy, September 1978 She acted in about 40 movies.
Death
Banzet died by suicide on July 29, 1971, in New York City.{{cite book|last=Truitt|first=Evelyn Mack|title=Who Was Who On Screen|year=1977|publisher=Rr Bowker LLC|page=21|isbn=978-0-8352-0914-4|id={{ISBN|0-8352-0914-8}}}} She is buried in Oakdale Memorial Park in Glendora, California in Los Angeles County.
Filmography
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- The Hardy Girls (1974)
- Only You Know, And I Know (1971)
- Is There Sex After Death? (1971)
- Interplay (1970)
- The Party at Kitty and Stud's (1970)
- Sexual Understanding (1970)
- The Amazing Transplant (1970)
- Tuck Me In (1970)
- The Filth Shop (1969)
- The Corporate Queen (1969)
- All Women Are Bad (1969)
- The Ultimate Degenerate (1969)
- Smoke and Flesh (1968)
- A Thousand Pleasures (1968)
- Cargo of Love (1968)
- Come Play with Me (1968)
- Private Relations (1968)
- Sugar Daddy (1968)
- The Kiss of Her Flesh (1968)
- Two Girls for a Madman (1968)
- Cool It, Baby (1967)
- To Turn a Trick (1967)
- Professor Lust (1967)
- Teach Me How to Do It! (1967)
- Miniskirt Love (1967)
- Venus in Furs (1967)
- Death of a Nymphette (1967)
- Anything for Money (1967)
- The Sex Cycle (1967)
- Diary of a Swinger (1967)
- Julie Is No Angel (1967)
- Lusting Hours (1967)
- Playpen Girls (1967)
- Teenage Gang Debs (1966)
- Skin Deep in Love (1966)
- The Beast That Killed Women (1965)
- Lilith (1964)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0052601}}
- [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=banzet&GSfn=jeanette&GSiman=1&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=60505983&df=all Janet Banzet's grave] at findagrave.com
- [https://archive.today/20130203005750/http://www.somethingweird.com/cart.php?target=search&substring=janet+banzet&x=0&y=0 Janet Banzet] at Something Weird Video
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Category:Actresses from Dallas
Category:American film actresses
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:Suicides in New York City
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