Joan Davis

Joan Davis

Born: June 29, 1907
Died: May 22, 1961
in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
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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.

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The Sound of Laughter
Title: The Sound of Laughter
Character: Jennie Kurtz (Hillbilly Singer)
Released: December 17, 1963
Type: Movie
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
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Title: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: I Married Joan
Character: Joan Stevens
Released: October 15, 1952
Type: TV
I Married Joan is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1952 to 1955. It starred veteran vaudeville, film, and radio comedienne-comedy actress Joan Davis as the manic, scatterbrained wife of a mild-mannered community judge, the Honorable Bradley Stevens.
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Harem Girl
Title: Harem Girl
Character: Susie Perkins
Released: January 22, 1952
Type: Movie
The palace secretary to a princess foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil.
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The Groom Wore Spurs
Title: The Groom Wore Spurs
Character: Alice Dean
Released: March 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.
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Let's Join Joanie
Title: Let's Join Joanie
Character: Joanie Davis
Released: June 14, 1950
Type: Movie
Salesgirl Joanie tries to impress a handsome man by joining a fitness club.
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Love That Brute
Title: Love That Brute
Character: Mamie Sage
Released: June 6, 1950
Type: Movie
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.
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The Traveling Saleswoman
Title: The Traveling Saleswoman
Character: Mabel King
Released: February 15, 1950
Type: Movie
The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.
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Make Mine Laughs
Title: Make Mine Laughs
Character: (archive footage)
Released: August 3, 1949
Type: Movie
A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.
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If You Knew Susie
Title: If You Knew Susie
Character: Susie Parker
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.
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She Wrote the Book
Title: She Wrote the Book
Character: Jane Featherstone
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia and she begins to believe she is the author of the book. Hijinks and adventures follow.
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George White's Scandals
Title: George White's Scandals
Character: Joan Mason
Released: October 9, 1945
Type: Movie
Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.
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She Gets Her Man
Title: She Gets Her Man
Character: Jane 'Pilky' Pilkington
Released: January 12, 1945
Type: Movie
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
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Kansas City Kitty
Title: Kansas City Kitty
Character: Polly Jasper
Released: August 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A piano teacher and her roommate decide invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comedy with music.
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Show Business
Title: Show Business
Character: Joan Mason
Released: May 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.
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Beautiful But Broke
Title: Beautiful But Broke
Character: Dottie Duncan
Released: January 28, 1944
Type: Movie
Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service due to WWII, and joins struggling singers/songwriters Sally Richards and Sue Ford in this endeavor. Dottie's screwball schemes to get engagements for the group often lead to disaster.
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Around the World
Title: Around the World
Character: Joan Davis
Released: November 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
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Two Señoritas from Chicago
Title: Two Señoritas from Chicago
Character: Daisy Baker
Released: June 10, 1943
Type: Movie
The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria and Maria. When their goofy pal Daisy Baker passes off a discarded Portuguese play manuscript as her own, producer Rupert Shannon agrees to bankroll the production. With stars in their eyes, Gloria and Maria pretend to be a pair of Portuguese musical comedy stars, thereby winning parts in the new production. The fun begins when the play's original authors sell the same manuscript to a rival producer.
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He's My Guy
Title: He's My Guy
Character: Madge Donovan
Released: March 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.
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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Title: Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Released: October 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."
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Yokel Boy
Title: Yokel Boy
Character: Molly Malone
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well.
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Two Latins from Manhattan
Title: Two Latins from Manhattan
Character: Joan Daley
Released: October 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.
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Sun Valley Serenade
Title: Sun Valley Serenade
Character: Miss Carstairs
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.
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Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
Title: Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
Character: Self
Released: August 15, 1941
Type: Movie
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings. Ken Murray, assisted by the Brewer Twins, is the MC, while the Andrews Sisters sing "In Apple Blossom Time" and the pre-"Uncle Miltie" Milton Berle plays his clarinet. The rest of the players, with contract-player faces belonging to 20th-Century Fox, RKO Radio, Universal and Columbia, just pass through. Production Number 3851.
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Hold That Ghost
Title: Hold That Ghost
Character: Camille Brewster
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
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For Beauty's Sake
Title: For Beauty's Sake
Character: Dottie Nickerson
Released: June 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
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Manhattan Heartbeat
Title: Manhattan Heartbeat
Character: Edna Higgins
Released: July 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.
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Sailor's Lady
Title: Sailor's Lady
Character: Myrtle
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
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Free, Blonde and 21
Title: Free, Blonde and 21
Character: Nellie
Released: March 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
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Day-time Wife
Title: Day-time Wife
Character: Miss Applegate
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
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Too Busy to Work
Title: Too Busy to Work
Character: Lolly
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
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Hollywood Hobbies
Title: Hollywood Hobbies
Character: Herself (uncredited)
Released: May 3, 1939
Type: Movie
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.
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Tail Spin
Title: Tail Spin
Character: Babe Dugan
Released: February 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
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Just Around the Corner
Title: Just Around the Corner
Character: Kitty
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.
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Hold That Co-ed
Title: Hold That Co-ed
Character: Lizzie Olsen
Released: September 16, 1938
Type: Movie
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
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My Lucky Star
Title: My Lucky Star
Character: Mary Dwight
Released: September 9, 1938
Type: Movie
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.
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Josette
Title: Josette
Character: May Morris
Released: June 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
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Sally, Irene and Mary
Title: Sally, Irene and Mary
Character: Irene Keene
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
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Love and Hisses
Title: Love and Hisses
Character: Joan Dolan
Released: December 21, 1937
Type: Movie
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
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Life Begins in College
Title: Life Begins in College
Character: Inez
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be on the team.
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Thin Ice
Title: Thin Ice
Character: Orchestra Leader
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
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Wake Up and Live
Title: Wake Up and Live
Character: Comic Spanish Dancer
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
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You Can't Have Everything
Title: You Can't Have Everything
Character: Girl in YWCA (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
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Sing and Be Happy
Title: Sing and Be Happy
Character: Myrtle
Released: June 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.
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Angel's Holiday
Title: Angel's Holiday
Character: Strivers
Released: June 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
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The Great Hospital Mystery
Title: The Great Hospital Mystery
Character: Flossie Duff
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
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On the Avenue
Title: On the Avenue
Character: Miss Katz
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
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Time Out for Romance
Title: Time Out for Romance
Character: Midge Dooley
Released: February 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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The Holy Terror
Title: The Holy Terror
Character: Lili
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Corky is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for the troops, uncovers a group of spies.
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Bunker Bean
Title: Bunker Bean
Character: Mabel - Bunker's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
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Way Up Thar
Title: Way Up Thar
Character: Jennie Kurtz
Released: November 7, 1935
Type: Movie
This 1934 short subject was Mack Sennett's final directorial effort for Educational Pictures, and comedienne Joan Davis' film debut. It features Buster Keaton's Mother and Sister, Myra and Louise, respectively. A very young Roy Rogers (billed as Leonard Slye) is featured as a member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and sings a few songs during the course of the movie.