Josephine "Joan" Davis was an American comedic actress whose career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television.
16 Facts About Joan Davis
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Joan Davis appeared with her husband Si Wills in vaudeville.
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Joan Davis' first film was a short subject for Educational Pictures titled Way Up Thar, featuring a then-unknown Roy Rogers.
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Joan Davis's pantomime sequence in Beautiful but Broke was a slapstick construction-site episode.
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Joan Davis featured in Tail Spin as a supporting actor, for the women's Bendix Air Race circuit.
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Joan Davis co-starred with Eddie Cantor in Show Business and If You Knew Susie.
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Joan Davis entered radio with an August 28,1941, appearance on The Rudy Vallee Show and became a regular on that show four months later.
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Joan Davis then began a series of shows that established her as a top star of radio situation comedy throughout the 1940s.
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Joan Davis was heard on CBS July 3 through August 28,1950.
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Joan Davis was a frequent and popular performer on Tallulah Bankhead's radio variety show The Big Show.
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Joan Davis was a regular on Eddie Cantor's Time to Smile program.
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However, by the start of its third year, not only were the ratings beginning to slip, but Joan Davis began experiencing heart trouble.
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The premise of this series had Joan Davis playing a musical comedy entertainer who had raised a daughter on her own.
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On May 22,1961, Joan Davis died of a heart attack at the age of 53 at her home in Palm Springs, California.
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Joan Davis was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery mausoleum in Culver City, California.
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Joan Davis has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for her contribution to the motion picture industry at 1501 Vine Street and one for radio in the 1700 block of Vine.