Joy Harmon | |
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 Harmon with Roger Smith in an episode of Mister Roberts , 1965. | |
| Born | Joy Patricia Harmon May 1, 1940 Flushing, New York, U.S. |
| Years active | 1956–1973 |
| Known for | Car washing girl in Cool Hand Luke |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | http://www.auntjoyscakes.com |
Patricia Joy Harmon [1] or Joy Patricia Harmon (born May 1, 1940) [2] is an American baker and former actress.
The daughter of Homer Harmon, Joy Patricia Harmon was born in Jackson Heights, New York, [1] or Flushing, New York. She and her family moved to Connecticut in 1946. She was a Miss Connecticut, [2] [ when? ] She tied for fourth runner-up in the 1957 competition for Miss Connecticut. [3] [4]
When she was three years old, Harmon modeled clothes in Fox Movietone News newsreels. [1] She skipped two grades in elementary school and graduated from Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut. [1]
Harmon's stage debut came in Pajama Tops at the Klein Memorial Theatre in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She toured the United States in stock company productions, including The Marriage-Go-Round , The Solid Gold Cadillac, The Tender Trap , The Importance of Being Ernest, and Susan Slept Here. [1] On Broadway, Harmon portrayed Betty Phillips in Make a Million (1958). [5] She also appeared in an off-Broadway production of Susan Slept Here (1961). [6]
Harmon was a contestant during the last season of Groucho Marx's television program You Bet Your Life (titled The Groucho Show during its last season), and later a regular on Marx's short-lived program Tell It to Groucho (credited as "Patty Harmon"). She guest-starred on several 1960s TV series, including Gidget , Batman , and The Monkees . She appeared in a cameo role as blonde Ardice in the Jack Lemmon comedy Under the Yum Yum Tree in 1963. She had a role as Tony Dow's girlfriend in the 1965–66 television soap opera Never Too Young .
Harmon's stand-out acting roles include the 30-foot-tall (9 m) Merrie in Village of the Giants (1965, in which she captures normal-sized Johnny Crawford and suspends him from her bikini top), and the car-washing Lucille in Cool Hand Luke (1967) [7] with her purportedly 41–22–36 measurements. [2]
Harmon was married to film editor and producer Jeff Gourson from 1968 to 2001, raising three children. For a time, a son worked at Walt Disney Studios. She later established a bakery, Aunt Joy's Cakes, in Burbank, California. [8]
Despite her surname, Harmon is not related to the popular actor Mark Harmon, nor to his family, the Harmon–Nelson family (a well-known California show business family). [9]
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Her amble [sic] bosom (41–22–36) was her ticket to Broadway in the comedy Make Me Laugh...
