- Best known for her supporting role as the waitress Louise Finch in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943).
- Her second husband was a promoter of traditional New Orleans jazz music. He was responsible for the Jazz Man Record Shop in Hollywood, and Jazz Man Records.
- Began her acting career using her given name: Ellen Clancy.
- Decided at the age of three that she would be an actress, after seeing Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1922).
- After signing a seven year contact with Warner Bros. in 1937, Jack L. Warner changed her stage name to Janet Shaw.
- With her parents, she moved to Los Angeles as a teenager, graduating from Beverly Hills High School.
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