Joan Davis

Joan Davis ( born June 29, 1907 in Saint Paul ( Minnesota), USA, † May 22, 1961 in Palm Springs (California), USA) was an American comedy actress. She was born as Madonna Josephine Davis in Minnesota.

Life

Your career has spanned vaudeville, film, radio and television. The best known, the actress was the comedic TV series I Married Joan, which aired from 1952 to 1955. She had a successful career in the field of B-movies and as the main star of a broadcast in the 1940s comedic radio show. On May 22, 1961, she died of a heart attack at the age of 52 years. It was, California buried in Holy Cross Cemetery Mausoleum in Culver City. On 24 October 1963, the mother of Joan Davis, daughter Beverly Wills, also an actress, were killed and their two children during a house fire in Palm Springs ( California).

For her contribution to the film industry Joan Davis was a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 1501 Vine Street.

Film career

Her first film, in which a still unknown Roy Rogers starred at this time, was Way Up Thar (1935 ) for Educational Pictures. Then took the sister company of Educational, Twentieth Century Fox, Davis under contract. Tall and lanky with a funny voice, she became known as one of the few female clowns of her time. Perhaps best known was through their cooperation with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hold That Ghost (1941 ) which she got a reputation as a flawless physical Actress in terms of comedy. Your pantomime appearance in the 1944er movie Beautiful but Broke is a slapstick episode and seeing her in timing of movement and responses is very precise.

She also worked with Eddie Cantor in Show Business (1944 ) and If you Knew Susie (1948 ) together. Outside the canvas scenery Cantor and Davis were also close friends.

Filmography

Award nominations

• Emmy Award for Best Comedienne (1953 )