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Oakwood native steals show in hit movie “The Help”
Leave it to Allison Janney to make a judgmental and overbearing mother likable.
Janney plays Charlotte Phelan, mom to Skeeter Phelan, in the hit film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel The Help.
The statuesque actress born in Dayton and raised in Oakwood steals nearly every scene she appears in the movie.
Her character is battling cancer, and Janney sports multiple wigs and tons of sass.
This isn’t her first time playing a mother on screen. Janney was the supportive stepmom to a pregnant teenager in “Juno.”
Janney has numerous TV and big screen credits. She is perhaps best known as playing C.J. Cregg on West Wing.
The Help is the number one movie in America. In its first 12 days of release, it has earned a total of $71.8 million.
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By Marchia
September 1, 2011 8:05 AM | Link to this
I certainly enjoy reading of the news of people born here in Dayton who have become a success in there chosen field. (I, myself, hope to be someone I read about in the future, as a famous inventor discovered right here in good ol’ Dayton, OH USA!!)