First Name
Joan
Last Name
Woodbury
Ethnicity
White
Date of Birth
17 December 1915
Build
Slim
Hair Color
Brown - Light
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California
Star Sign
Sagittarius
Date of Death
22 February 1989
Place of Death
Desert Hot Springs, California
Cause of Death
respiratory complications
Nationality
American
Gender
Female
Wikipedia Text
Joan Woodbury (December 17, 1915 – February 22, 1989) was an American actress beginning in the 1930s and continuing well into the 1960s.
Couple Profile
Tall, provocative actress Joan Woodbury was born Joanne Woodbury in Los Angeles on December 17, 1915. Of Danish, English and Indian heritage, she was educated for seven years in a convent. Trained in dance, she was already performing in her mid-teens by the time she graduated from Hollywood High School. A solo dancer at one point with the Agua Caliente dance company, she broke into films at age 19, her exotic beauty being her "in" to the picture business. For many years she was relegated to atmospheric bit parts as assorted dancing girls, barmaids, secretaries and the like. Once she progress to co-starring roles, her characters often provided a foreign allure (Hispanic, French, Asian) playing femmes with such desirous names as Lolita, Dolores and Toto. Seldom rising above "B" and "C" ranked features, she nevertheless churned out a feisty score of ladies and girlfriends for about a decade and a half (1934-1949).
She appeared in a number of "Charlie Chan" entries of the 1930s, particularly Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937) wherein she turned heads performing a very sultry dance routine. A resilient western player as well, she appeared opposite a number of cowboy heroes including William Boyd [Hopalong Cassidy], Roy Rogers and Johnny Mack Brown among others. Her her first co-starring role, in fact, came opposite sagebrush star Tim McCoy (in a dual role) in Bulldog Courage (1935). One of her finest moments in the limelight has to be her titular role in the Columbia serial Brenda Starr, Reporter (1945) in which she gave a fine, spirited performance as the intrepid heroine.
After retiring from films in the 1960s, she became a stage producer and director of grand and light operas for the Redlands (California) Bowl. Married twice to actor/producer Henry Wilcoxon and actor Ray Mitchell, she and her second husband subsequently co-founded the Palm Springs-based Valley Player`s Guild, staging plays which featured other veteran performers. She died of a respiratory ailment in 1989 and was survived by three children from her first marriage to Mr. Wilcoxon.
Couple Profile Source
www.imdb.com/name/nm0940199/bio
High School
Hollywood High School
Full Name at Birth
Joanne Woodbury
Age
73
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