10 Facts About Joan Taylor

Joan Taylor was an American television and film actress.

Joan Taylor's father, Joseph Emma, from Sicily, was a prop man in Hollywood in the 1920s.

Joan Taylor's mother, Amelia Berky, was from Austria, and was a vaudeville singing-dancing star in the 1920s.

Joan Taylor married Leonard Freeman, later the creator of Hawaii Five-O, in 1953.

When Freeman died in January 1974, following heart surgery, Joan Taylor began managing Leonard Freeman Productions and the business of Hawaii Five-O under the name Rose Freeman.

Joan Taylor attended at least one Hawaii Five-O convention to talk to fans.

Joan Taylor remarried, to television producer-director Walter Grauman in 1976; the couple divorced in 1980.

Joan Taylor met Freeman there when both were involved with putting on Here Comes Mr.

Joan Taylor's producer had insured the 19-year-old's legs for $100,000 against injury.

Joan Taylor died of natural causes March 4,2012, in Santa Monica, California.