1. Joan Staley's father was a minister, and her mother was a musician who played violin, piano, organ, and viola.
20 Facts About Joan Staley
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At age three, Staley's mother took her to a concert, after which Joan requested a violin.
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Joan Staley briefly attended Chapman College, after which she moved to where her father was stationed in San Francisco to find work, as the only teletype operator at the William R Stats brokerage firm.
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Joan Staley joined The Little Theater in Hollywood with roles in The Robe, Fiona in Brigadoon, and My Sister Eileen with actress Jo Anne Worley.
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Joan Staley's first role in television was a 1958 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Corresponding Corpse".
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In early 1958, Lawrence Schiller, a Life photographer, approached Joan Staley and asked her to pose for Playboy.
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Joan Staley's working experience, seen taking a shower in the opening credits, with director Vincente Minnelli for Bells Are Ringing, starring Judy Holliday, was, for her, a memorable start to her film career.
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Joan Staley enjoyed a film and television career that lasted through the 1960s and into the early 1970s.
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Joan Staley went on to guest-star on Phil Silvers's sitcom The New Phil Silvers Show.
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Joan Staley co-starred in Valley of the Dragons in 1961 as "Deena".
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Joan Staley made three additional guest appearances on Perry Mason, as Sally in "The Case Of The Double Entry Mind", and including the role of murderer Gina Gilbert in the 1962 episode, "The Case of the Lonely Eloper".
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One of her favorite roles was a small part in A New Kind of Love, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, in which Staley had a sequence with Newman.
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Joan Staley appeared in Cape Fear as a waitress in a scene with Robert Mitchum; Johnny Cool ; and the 1964 Elvis Presley movie, Roustabout; and co-starred in The Ghost and Mr Chicken opposite Don Knotts and in Gunpoint opposite Audie Murphy.
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Joan Staley's character was Roberta "Honey-Hips" Love, a former stripper who had joined the Navy.
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Joan Staley stopped working in films after that and concentrated on television.
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Joan Staley married Charles Staley in 1956, whom she had met in France.
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Also during this period, Joan Staley sang occasional backup for Sun Records, of Elvis Presley fame.
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Joan Staley married again, in 1967, to Dale Sheets, an executive with MCA.
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Joan Staley was active in consumer affairs, her church, and prison ministry.
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Joan Staley was one of 12 actresses selected by the Hollywood Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Union as Deb Stars of 1962.