Joan Davis
Born: 1907-06-29 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Died: 1961-05-22
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joan Davis (June 29, 1907 – May 22, 1961) was an American comedic actress whose career spanned vaudeville, film, radio and television. Remembered best for the 1950s television comedy, I Married Joan, Davis had a successful earlier career as a B-movie actress and a leading star of 1940s radio comedy. Born as Madonna Josephine Davis in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Davis was a performer since childhood. She appeared with her husband Si Wills in vaudeville. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Davis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1976
- Bob Hope's World of Comedy as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
1963
- The Sound of Laughter as Jennie Kurtz (Hillbilly Singer)
1956
- The Steve Allen Show as Self - Guest
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
1952
- I Married Joan as Joan Stevens
- Harem Girl as Susie Perkins
1951
- The Groom Wore Spurs as Alice Dean
1950
- Love That Brute as Mamie Sage
- The Traveling Saleswoman as Mabel King
- Let's Join Joanie as Joanie Davis
1949
- Make Mine Laughs as (archive footage)
1948
- If You Knew Susie as Susie Parker
1946
- She Wrote the Book as Jane Featherstone
1945
- She Gets Her Man as Jane 'Pilky' Pilkington
- George White's Scandals as Joan Mason
1944
- Show Business as Joan Mason
- Kansas City Kitty as Polly Jasper
- Beautiful But Broke as Dottie Duncan
1943
- He's My Guy as Madge Donovan
- Around the World as Joan Davis
- Two Señoritas from Chicago as Daisy Baker
1942
- Yokel Boy as Molly Malone
- Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1941
- Hold That Ghost as Camille Brewster
- For Beauty's Sake as Dottie Nickerson
- Sun Valley Serenade as Miss Carstairs
- Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 as Self
- Two Latins from Manhattan as Joan Daley
1940
- Free, Blonde and 21 as Nellie
- Sailor's Lady as Myrtle
- Manhattan Heartbeat as Edna Higgins
1939
- Hollywood Hobbies as Self (uncredited)
- Day-time Wife as Miss Applegate
- Too Busy to Work as Lolly
- Tail Spin as Babe Dugan
1938
- Sally, Irene and Mary as Irene Keene
- My Lucky Star as Mary Dwight
- Just Around the Corner as Kitty
- Josette as May Morris
- Hold That Co-ed as Lizzie Olsen
1937
- Love and Hisses as Joan Dolan
- Wake Up and Live as Comic Spanish Dancer
- You Can't Have Everything as Girl in YWCA (uncredited)
- Sing and Be Happy as Myrtle
- Time Out for Romance as Midge Dooley
- Thin Ice as Orchestra Leader
- On the Avenue as Miss Katz
- Life Begins in College as Inez
- Angel's Holiday as Strivers
- The Great Hospital Mystery as Flossie Duff
- The Holy Terror as Lili
1936
- Bunker Bean as Mabel - Bunker's Secretary (uncredited)
1935
- Way Up Thar as Jennie Kurtz
- Millions in the Air as Singer