Janette Craig

Janette Craig is an Australian actress best known for her performance as Bubba in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959).

Biography
She worked as an assistant manager at the Comedy Theatre. In 1957 she was voted Miss New South Wales. The following year she married British composer Eric Rasdall. She had a regular role on Australia's first soap opera, Autumn Affair but had to leave it to feature in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.

She retired from acting and moved into production when her young daughter fell ill.

Select credits

 * The Adventures of Long John Silver - "The Pink Pearl" (1954)
 * My Three Angels/Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) - stage performances
 * Tomorrow's Child (1957)
 * The Art of Being Happily Married (1957) radio play
 * The Big Knife (1957) - stage performance
 * Killer in Close Up - "The Trial of Madeleine Smith" (1958) - as Madeleine Smith
 * Arrow in the Air (1958) radio play
 * Autumn Affair (1958–59) - series regular
 * Tell Me Now (1958) radio play
 * Dear Miss Austen (1958) radio play
 * Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959)
 * The High Cost of Loving (1959) - radio play
 * Tale from the Vienna Woods (1959) radio play
 * Whiplash - episodes "The Canoomba Affair", "A Dilemma in Wool", "Act of Courage"
 * Adventure Unlimited (filmed 1963, shown 1965) - "The Witness" shot on location in New Guinea
 * Richard Whittington Esquire (1964)
 * Boeing Boeing (1964) - stage performance, Palace Theatre
 * Festival (Canadian TV show) - "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll" (1965)