Mother of son David Janssen and daughters Jill Janssen and Teri Janssen.

Bernice Janssen did extra work under the name of Benice Dalton.

Mother-in-law of Dani Crayne.

She was named Miss Nebraska in 1928.

She got her start on stage in New York as one of the Ziegfeld Girls and was a member of the Ziegfeld Club, a charitable organization originally comprised largely of Ziegfeld Follies alumnae and founded by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s widow Billie Burke in1936 for the purpose of helping women succeed in musical theater.