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Overview
Date of Birth:
Mini Biography:
Widely popular comedienne appeared in some movies and on radio in the... more
Trivia:
Her mother, daughter Beverly Wills and two grandsons died in a fire in... more
Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy.
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1 win
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Filmography
Actress:
- "I Married Joan" .... Joan Stevens / ... (63 episodes, 1952-1955)
- The Jail Bird (1955) TV episode .... Joan Stevens
- How to Win Friends (1955) TV episode .... Joan Stevens
- The Lady and the Prizefighter (1955) TV episode .... Joan Stevens
- Ladies Prison (1955) TV episode .... Joan Stevens
- The Allergy (1955) TV episode .... Joan Stevens
(58 more) - Harem Girl (1952) .... Susie Perkins
- The Groom Wore Spurs (1951) .... Alice Dean
- Love That Brute (1950) .... Mamie Sage
- The Traveling Saleswoman (1950) .... Mabel King
- Let's Join Joanie (1950) (TV) .... Joanie
- If You Knew Susie (1948) .... Susie Parker
- She Wrote the Book (1946) .... Jane Featherstone/Lulu Winters
- George White's Scandals (1945) .... Joan Mason
... aka George White's Scandals of 1945 (USA: poster title) - She Gets Her Man (1945) .... Jane 'Pilky' Pilkington
- Kansas City Kitty (1944) .... Polly Jasper
- Show Business (1944) .... Joan Mason
- Beautiful But Broke (1944) .... Dottie Duncan
- Around the World (1943) .... Joan Davis
- Two Señoritas from Chicago (1943) .... Daisy Baker
- He's My Guy (1943) .... Madge Donovan
- Sweetheart of the Fleet (1942) .... Phoebe Weyms
- Yokel Boy (1942) .... Molly Malone
... aka Hitting the Headlines (UK) - Two Latins from Manhattan (1941) .... Joan Daley
- Sun Valley Serenade (1941) .... Miss Carstairs
- Hold That Ghost (1941) .... Camille Brewster
... aka Oh, Charlie - For Beauty's Sake (1941) .... Dottie Nickerson
- Manhattan Heartbeat (1940) .... Edna Higgins
- Sailor's Lady (1940) .... Myrtle
- Free, Blonde and 21 (1940) .... Nellie
- Day-Time Wife (1939) .... Joyce Applegate
- Too Busy to Work (1939) .... Lolly
- Skinny the Moocher (1939) (uncredited) .... The Maid
- Tail Spin (1939) .... Babe Dugan
- Just Around the Corner (1938) .... Kitty
- Hold That Co-ed (1938) .... Lizzie Olsen
... aka Hold That Girl (UK) - My Lucky Star (1938) .... Mary Dwight
- Josette (1938) .... May Morris
- Sally, Irene and Mary (1938) .... Irene Keene
- Love and Hisses (1937) .... Joan
- Life Begins in College (1937) .... Inez
... aka Life Begins at College (USA: TV title)
... aka The Joy Parade (UK) - Thin Ice (1937) .... Orchestra Leader
... aka Der Komet (Canada: English title)
... aka Lovely to Look at (UK) - Wake Up and Live (1937) .... Spanish Dancer
- You Can't Have Everything (1937) (uncredited) .... Dancer
- Sing and Be Happy (1937) .... Myrtle
- Angel's Holiday (1937) .... Strivers
- The Great Hospital Mystery (1937) .... Flossie Duff
... aka Dead Yesterday - Time Out for Romance (1937) .... Midge Dooley
- On the Avenue (1937) .... Miss Katz - Dibble's Secretary
- The Holy Terror (1937) .... Lili
- Bunker Bean (1936) (uncredited) .... Mabel, Bunker's Secretary
... aka His Majesty Bunker Bean (UK) - Millions in the Air (1935) .... Singer
- Way Up Thar (1935) .... Jennie Kirk
Producer:
- "I Married Joan" (executive producer) (36 episodes, 1952-1955)
- The Jail Bird (1955) TV episode (executive producer)
- The Allergy (1955) TV episode (executive producer) (uncredited)
- Eye Glasses (1955) TV episode (executive producer)
- The Maid (1955) TV episode (executive producer)
- The Wedding (1955) TV episode (executive producer)
(31 more) - The Traveling Saleswoman (1950) (producer)
Soundtrack:
- The Traveling Saleswoman (1950) (performer: "He Died With His Boots On")
- If You Knew Susie (1948) (performer: "My, How the Time Goes By" (1948), "Sextette" (1835) (uncredited)) ("What Do I Want with Money" (1948))
- George White's Scandals (1945) (performer: "I Wake Up in the Morning" (uncredited), "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain When She Comes" (uncredited)) ("Who Killed Vaudeville?" (uncredited))
... aka George White's Scandals of 1945 (USA: poster title) - Show Business (1944) (performer: "I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)", "Dinah", "Sextette", "Alabamy Bound")
- He's My Guy (1943) (performer: "He's My Guy")
- Hold That Ghost (1941) ("The Blue Danube Waltz" (1867) (uncredited))
... aka Oh, Charlie - Hold That Co-ed (1938) (performer: "Limpy Dimp" (1938) (uncredited))
... aka Hold That Girl (UK) - Just Around the Corner (1938) (performer: "This Is a Happy Little Ditty")
- Thin Ice (1937) ("I'm Olga From the Volga", "My Swiss Hilly Billy")
... aka Der Komet (Canada: English title)
... aka Lovely to Look at (UK)
Self:
- "The Garry Moore Show" .... Herself (1 episode, 1959)
- Episode #1.29 (1959) TV episode .... Herself - "The Steve Allen Show" .... Herself - Guest (2 episodes, 1958)
... aka The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (USA: new title)
- Episode #4.13 (1958) TV episode .... Herself - Guest
- Episode #4.4 (1958) TV episode .... Herself - Guest - "The Dinah Shore Chevy Show" .... Herself (2 episodes, 1957-1958)
... aka The Dinah Shore Show (USA: sixth season title)
- Episode #3.4 (1958) TV episode .... Herself
- Episode #2.4 (1957) TV episode .... Herself - "The George Gobel Show" .... Herself (1 episode, 1958)
- Episode #4.13 (1958) TV episode .... Herself - "The Bob Hope Show" .... Herself (1 episode, 1956)
- Episode dated 11 November 1956 (1956) TV episode .... Herself - Screen Snapshots: Motion Picture Mothers, Inc. (1949) .... Herself
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 6 (1942) .... Herself
- Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 1 (1941) .... Herself
- Hollywood Hobbies (1939) (uncredited) .... Herself
- Keep Smiling (1938/II) (uncredited) .... Herself
Archive Footage:
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"Biography"
- Bud Abbott & Lou Costello: Abbott & Costello Meet Biography (1996) TV episode .... Camille Brewster - The Sound of Laughter (1963) .... Hillbilly singer (edited from: Way Up Thar)
- Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963) .... Herself
- Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952) .... Herself
- Make Mine Laughs (1949) .... Edited from George White's Scandals 1945
Additional Details
Other Works:
In 1958, she starred in an unsold comedy pilot entitled, "Joan of Arkansas" about a klutzy woman who was chosen by a computer to be the ideal candidate to be the first "man on the moon." The pilot co-starred John Emery, Whit Bissell, Ben Wright, Wilton Graff, Lee Patrick, Paul Frees, Robert Brubaker, Jolene Brand, and Olan Soule.
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