Started ballet and tap instruction at age eight under Elsie McDonald (sister of actress Jeanette McDonald's). By age twelve, the Arters twins were doing a stage presentation based upon the famous Scope-A-Tune routine of the European Kessler Sisters. Began print and store modeling in Philadelphia at age fifteen. An in-demand model by age sixteen, ...
Lives in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area, and suffers from Multiple Sclerosis. [March 2002]
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Living in central Pennsylvania and making numerous Slap Shot and MS-related personal appearances in North America [August 2004]
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_Slap Shot (1977) _ director George Roy Hill was originally was looking for the Sparkle Twins - the Johnstown Chiefs' hockey groupies - to be very different in appearance. He wanted two frizzy-haired, bespectacled, orthodontia-riddled teen girls. When he saw Louise and Janet walk through the door, all of that went straight out the window. It was suddenly two blonde bombshells - with torn, tight tee shirts - cast in the picture.