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Name
  
Justine Johnstone


Role
  
Actress

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Born
  
January 31, 1895 (
1895-01-31
)
Englewood, New Jersey

Occupation
  
Stage, film actress, pathologist, scientist

Died
  
September 3, 1982, Santa Monica, California, United States

Spouse
  
Walter Wanger (m. 1919–1938)

Movies
  
Blackbirds, Sheltered Daughters, A Heart to Let, Never the Twain Shall Meet, The Crucible

Education
  
Columbia University, Emma Willard School

Similar People
  
Walter Wanger, Joan Bennett, Maurice Tourneur, Joseph Henabery, Edward Dillon

Justine Johnstone (January 31, 1895 – September 4, 1982) was an American stage and silent screen actress. She was later a pathologist and expert on syphilis. Working under her married name, Justine Wanger, she was part of the team that developed the modern intravenous drip technique.

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Acting career

She attended Emma Willard School in Troy, New York. An original performer in the Ziegfeld Follies and a performer in the Folies-Bergere, she appeared in the 1917 Broadway production Over the Top, which starred Fred Astaire.

Medical career

Johnstone married producer Walter Wanger on 13 September 1919; they divorced in 1938. She retained her married name and had borne Wanger no children.

After giving up performing, Wanger enrolled in Columbia University, where she studied plant research and served as a research assistant to Samuel Hirshberg and Harold T. Hyman. The team developed the modern I.V. unit; their key breakthrough was to slow down the rate of delivery and avoid what was then known as "speed shock" by introducing the now-ubiquitous drip technique. She later studied and made developments in endocrinology and cancer research and installed a laboratory in her house in Hollywood.

Death

Justine Wanger died in Santa Monica, California from congestive heart failure, aged 87. Her remains are at Chapel of the Pines Crematory.

Filmography

Actress
1925
Never the Twain Shall Meet as
Maisie Morrison
1923
Survivre as
Viviane Termoise
1921
Moonlight and Honeysuckle as
Bit Part (uncredited)
1921
A Heart to Let as
Agatha
1921
Sheltered Daughters as
Jenny Dark
1921
The Plaything of Broadway as
Lola
1920
Blackbirds as
Countess Leonie
1920
Nothing But Lies as
Ann Nigh
1914
The Crucible as
Amelia (as Justina Johnstone)
Self
1917
Universal Screen Magazine, No. 13 (Documentary short) as
Self

References

Justine Johnstone Wikipedia


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