Janice Gilbert (c. 1920 - 1992) was an American child actress on radio and a game-show personality on television who became an expert on bridge.
[5] Gilbert's acting career began when she and her mother arrived early at a radio studio and watched the rehearsal.
When a child actress who had a role that included a southern dialect failed to appear for the broadcast, Gilbert was given an audition, and she went on the air for the first time that day.
On The O'Neills, in addition to her primary role of Janice Collins, she portrayed 2-year-old twins Margie and Junior and infant Bobby.
[15] In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Gilbert was the "paying teller" on the radio and television versions of Break the Bank.
[16] Tobias Stone, whom Gilbert married in 1955,[2] was "one of the world's top bridge players", and he introduced her to that card game.
[18] She said that the memory skills that had enabled her to perform in 10-12 radio and TV shows per day were an asset in playing bridge.
[2] Gilbert and Fulton were lost in choppy waters when their fishing boat capsized in the Caribbean about 150 miles north of Haiti on November 12, 1992.
The Coast Guard and private planes searched the area, and two passengers were rescued from the righted boat on November 13.