Joan Shawlee
| Joan Shawlee | |
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| Born | March 5, 1926 Forest Hills, New York, U.S. |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Joan Fulton |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1945-1986 |
| Spouse(s) | Walter Shawlee[1] |
Joan Shawlee (March 5, 1926[2] – March 22, 1987), also credited as Joan Fulton,[3] was an American film and television actress.
A tall woman (5'9"), she was known for small parts in Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder films. Her best remembered role is possibly "Sweet Sue" in Some Like It Hot (1959) starring Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis, as well as Lemmon. She appeared as "Sylvia" in The Apartment (1960), and as "Amazon Annie" in Irma la Douce, both of which starred Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. She had a recurring role on TV in The Dick Van Dyke Show as "Pickles Sorrell",[4] She played the lead in The Adventures of Aggie (1956–57), which only ran for one season,[5] and was a regular on Betty Hutton's short-lived series Goldie, and on the 1976-77 crime drama The Feather and Father Gang.
Death
As reported in her obituary in the L.A. Times, she died of cancer, in Hollywood, California, on March 22, 1987, aged 61.
Selected filmography and television
- Inside Job (1946)
- Lover Come Back (1946)
- Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
- The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1953)
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- Pride of the Blue Grass (1954)
- A Star Is Born (1954)
- The Adventures of Aggie (1956)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- The Apartment (1960)
- The Dick Van Dyke Show (1963)
- Irma la Douce (1963)
- Critic's Choice (1963)
- Tony Rome (1967)
- Live A Little Love A Little (1968)
- Willard (1971)
- Columbo (1971; season 1 episode "Suitable for Framing")
- The Feather and Father Gang (1976-1977)
- Buddy Buddy (1981)
References
- ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/1987-03-31/local/me-1312_1_busy-actress
- ↑ Joan Shawlee's date of birth, familysearch.org; accessed February 14, 2016.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Heffernan, Harold. "12 New Film Beauties Selected For Musical", Toledo Blade, November 9, 1950.
- ↑ The Adventures of Aggie, imdb.com; accessed February 14, 2016.
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