She appeared in Hollywood films during the 1950 and 1980s, also pursuing a parallel career of advocacy and service to disadvantaged groups and to her adopted religion, the Baháʼí Faith.

[2] Although most of her later career was in the Western genre, Janti would become known as the "Starlet of many faces" as she was able to portray a diverse range of ethnic roles, including Polynesian, Native American, Mexican, Burmese, French, Italian, Spanish, east Indian and Persian.

[3][4][5][6] Janti was cast in films such as: Jump Into Hell (1955), Pearl of the South Pacific (1955), World Without End (1956), Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957), The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958), and She Gods of Shark Reef (1958).

She also worked on Project People which she co-hosted with Tom Bradley around 1963-4 (before he became mayor of Los Angeles) on KCOP-TV,[2] was among the group addressing a panel of Hopi leaders at a World Peace Day observance[16] and gave several talks as part of World Peace Day observances in Phoenix including one in Spanish.

[2] She spoke at a 100th anniversary observance of the Baháʼí Faith and moved to Tucson as a director of a reading institute[20] Child Development Centers Inc.[21] After some years of volunteering at Head Start beginning in 1965 in Watts[2][22] by 1970, she had taken a position directing a Head Start program near Tucson Arizona for the Tohono O'odham on their Reservation.

[2] Instead she continued her talks for the religion,[23][24] and took a position with Bradley's administration after 1973 by being a liaison with various coalitions and commissions, dealing with various poverty, elderly, art and youth programs[2] and continued advocacy through Baháʼí talks for equality for women at different conferences[25] including one highlighting the 1975 UN Women's Conference in Mexico.

[26] And she served as chair of the Los Angeles Baháʼí Spiritual Assembly while honoring the educational center Plaza de la Raza with a replica of the Aztec calendar stone.

After publishing an introductory text on the religion in 2005,[33] she served as the program director of the Desert Rose Baháʼí Institute at least circa 2008-9[34] and she continued to write.