Janis Joplin
Biography
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1/19/1943, Port Arthur, TexasDied
10/3/1970Birth Name
Janis Lyn JoplinGender
FemaleCredits
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Guest Star (8)
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The Midnight Special
Herself, film clip
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E! True Hollywood Story
Herself
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This is Tom Jones
Herself
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S 2:
Ep 11
December 4, 1969
12/4/69
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S 2:
Ep 11
December 4, 1969
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The Music Scene
Guest
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The Dick Cavett Show
Herself
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S 3:
Ep 24
July 18, 1969
7/18/69
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S 4:
Ep 150
August 3, 1970
8/3/70
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S 4:
Ep 124
June 25, 1970
6/25/70
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S 3:
Ep 24
July 18, 1969
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Beat-Club
Herself, on film
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Herself
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The Hollywood Palace
Herself
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S 6:
Ep 5
Host: Don Adams / Janis Joplin / Barbara Eden
10/26/68
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S 6:
Ep 5
Host: Don Adams / Janis Joplin / Barbara Eden
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The Midnight Special
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Trivia and Quotes
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Trivia
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On October 4,1970 Janis died of a heroin overdose in room 105 of the Landmark Hotel in Los Angeles. Her chauffeur was the one who discovered her dead on the floor in her room.
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Janis was the oldest of three children. She has a younger sister named Laurel Lee and a younger brother name Michael Ross.
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When Janis passed she requested to be cremated and her ashes scattered over the Pacific Ocean.
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Quotes
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Janis: You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
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Janis: When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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Janis: Well, I was supposed to be on the latest cover of Newsweek, but Eisenhower died. Goddamnit, 14 heart attacks and he had to die in my week.
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