Joanne Gilbert | |
---|---|
Born | Chicago, Illinois | July 17, 1932
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1953-1966 |
Spouse(s) | Danny Arnold (1955-1956) [1] Edward L. Rissien (1958-1964) [1] |
Joanne Gilbert (born July 17, 1932) is an American television and film actress. [1]
Gilbert was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Hollywood, California. [2] She is the daughter of American lyricist Ray Gilbert [3] who is best known for writing the lyrics of the song Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah .
She pursued an unsuccessful career as a fashion model in New York City, and then moved back to California, performing as a nightclub singer before becoming a film actress. [2] Her movies include Red Garters starring Rosemary Clooney and Jack Carson, [4] and The Great Man . [5] Her last film performance was in 1958. She worked much of the next decade in TV dramas.
She has been married to Edward Louis Rissien and actor/producer Danny Arnold, and is the step-daughter of actress Janis Paige.
Richard Lewis Deacon was an American television and motion picture actor, best known for playing supporting roles in television shows such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, Leave It To Beaver, and The Jack Benny Program along with minor roles in films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).
Joi Lansing was an American model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer. She was noted for her pin-up photos and roles in B-movies, as well as a prominent role in the famous opening "tracking shot" in Orson Welles' 1958 crime drama Touch of Evil.
Marie Windsor was an American actress known for her femme fatale characters in the classic film noir features Force of Evil, The Narrow Margin and The Killing. Windsor's height created problems for her in scenes with all but the tallest actors. She was the female lead in so many B movies that she became dubbed the "Queen" of the genre.
Phyllis Coates is an American former actress, with a career spanning over fifty years. She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of reporter Lois Lane in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men and in the first season of the television series Adventures of Superman.
Monica Elizabeth "Mona" Freeman was an American actress and painter.
William Gerald Paris was an American actor and director best known for playing Jerry Helper, the dentist and next-door neighbor of Rob and Laura Petrie, on The Dick Van Dyke Show, and for directing the majority of the episodes of the sitcom Happy Days.
Faith Marie Domergue was an American film and television actress. Discovered at age sixteen by media and aircraft mogul Howard Hughes, she was signed to a contract with Hughes's RKO Radio Pictures and cast as the lead in the studio's thriller Vendetta, which had a troubled four-year production before finally being released in 1950.
Gene Nelson was an American actor, dancer, screenwriter, and director.
Mona Lee Washbourne was an English actress of stage, film, and television. Her most critically acclaimed role was in the film Stevie (1978), late in her career, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award.
Victor Jack Maddern was an English actor. He was described by The Telegraph as having "one of the most distinctive and eloquent faces in post-war British cinema."
Joan Weldon was an American actress and singer in film, television, and theatre.
Leslie Gaye Griffin, better known as Lisa Gaye, was an American actress and dancer.
Patricia Molly Owens was a Canadian-born American actress, working in Hollywood. She appeared in about 40 films and 10 television episodes in a career lasting from 1943 to 1968.
Rose Constance Gilchrist was an American stage, film, and television actress. Among her screen credits are her roles in the Hollywood productions Cry 'Havoc' (1943), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), Little Women (1949), Tripoli (1950), Houdini (1953), Some Came Running (1958), and Auntie Mame (1958).
Lillian Gertrude Michael was an American film, stage and television actress.
Douglas Richards Kennedy was an American actor originally from New York City who appeared in more than 190 films from 1935 to 1973.
Dolores Rae Michaels was an American actress.
My Life with Caroline is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Ronald Colman and Anna Lee, in her second Hollywood film and her first in a starring role. The screenplay was written by John Van Druten and Arnold Belgard.
This is the complete filmography of actress Marguerite Chapman.
Jesslyn Fax was a Canadian-American actress. She is known for playing 'Miss Hearing Aid' in Rear Window (1954), Avis Grubb in The Music Man (1962), Miss Hemphill in The Man Who Died Twice (1958), and Airline passenger in The Family Jewels (1965).