1. Joan Elan was an English actress, whose film, stage, and television career occurred mainly in the United States.
17 Facts About Joan Elan
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Joan Elan is best remembered today for her appearances on television.
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Joan Elan was born Joan Georgina Bingham-Newland in Colombo, in what was then British Ceylon.
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Joan Elan was the youngest of three children for parents Richard C Bingham-Newland and Georgina Low.
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Joan Elan's father owned a tea plantation near Colombo, where young Joan spent her early years.
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Joan Elan later described to an American interviewer hearing the noise of buzz bombs overhead while at school during World War II.
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Joan Elan performed with stock companies in England, in Summer Day's Dream and as the lead in a London production of Junior Miss when she was seventeen.
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Joan Elan had an uncredited role in the 1951 Nettleton Studios film Hell Is Sold Out, which led to talent scouts from Paramount "discovering" her.
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Joan Elan gave the approval for hiring Joan Elan and two other actresses, Audrey Dalton and Dorothy Bromiley, and escorted all three via BOAC from London to New York City on March 19,1952.
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Reviews for Joan Elan's work were more focused on the character than the performance, but she drew no negative comments.
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Joan Elan had leading roles in four small-screen productions that year, three of them for anthology series.
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Joan Elan had a small role in her third film, MGM's colorful but leaden Restoration era swashbuckler, The King's Thief, where she played a shy Quaker girl.
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Joan Elan played the young queen in the adaption of Jean Anouilh's 1952 French language two-act play about Joan of Arc.
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Joan Elan spent the remainder of 1956 making seven one-hour features for television's Matinee Theater.
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Joan Elan would make four more of these features for Matinee Theater during the next two years.
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Joan Elan could handle both comic and dramatic roles, but had no demonstrable skills in singing or dancing.
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Joan Elan's headstone carries a birthdate of 1930, perhaps a legacy of those two years Paramount shaved off her age decades before.