Justine Johnstone

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For the film and television actress, see Justine Johnston.

(Not to be confused with silent actress Julanne Johnston)

Justine Johnstone
Born (1895-01-31)January 31, 1895
Englewood, New Jersey
Died September 3, 1982(1982-09-03) (aged 87)
Santa Monica, California
Occupation Stage, film actress, pathologist, scientist
Spouse(s) Walter Wanger (1919-1938; divorced)

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.[1]

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.[1]

Medical career

Johnstone married producer Walter Wanger on 13 September 1919; they divorced in 1938.[2] She retained her married name. Wanger later married the much younger actress Joan Bennett.

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.[1][3] She later studied and made developments in endocrinology and cancer research and installed a laboratory in her house in Hollywood.[1]

Death

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

Filmography

  • Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925) .... Maisie Morrison
  • Moonlight and Honeysuckle (1921) (uncredited) .... Bit Part
  • A Heart to Let (1921) .... Agatha
  • Sheltered Daughters (1921) .... Jenny Dark
  • The Plaything of Broadway (1921) .... Lola
  • Blackbirds (1920) .... Countess Leonie
  • Nothing But Lies (1920) .... Ann Nigh
  • The Crucible (1914/I) (as Justina Johnstone) .... Amelia

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Autumn Stanley, Mothers and Daughters of Invention; Note for a Revised History of Technology, Rutgers University Press, 1995
  2. ↑ "Milestones, Apr. 25, 1938". Time Magazine. April 25, 1938. 
  3. ↑ Hirshfeld, Samuel, M.D.; Hyman, Harold T., M.D.; Wanger, Justine (1931). "Influence of Velocity on the Response to Intravenous Injections". Archives of Internal Medicine 47 (2): 218–228. doi:10.1001/archinte.1931.00140200095007. 

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