30 Facts About Joey Heatherton

Davenie Johanna "Joey" Heatherton was born on September 14,1944 and is an American actress, dancer, and singer.

Joey Heatherton was a frequent variety show performer but had a number of acting roles.

Joey Heatherton starred in several feature films, including My Blood Runs Cold and The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington.

Davenie Johanna Joey Heatherton was born in New York City and raised in Rockville Centre, New York, a town of Nassau County close to New York City.

Joey Heatherton was nicknamed "Joey" as a child, a combination of her first name Davenie and her middle name Johanna.

Joey Heatherton's father, Ray Heatherton, was a Broadway star and television pioneer.

Joey Heatherton was famous in the greater New York area as the star of the long-running children's television show The Merry Mailman.

Joey Heatherton's mother, named Davenie, was a dancer who met Ray Heatherton when both were performing in Babes in Arms.

Joey Heatherton attended Saint Agnes Academy, a Catholic grade and high school.

Joey Heatherton first appeared on television on her father's show The Merry Mailman, a popular children's show in New York.

Joey Heatherton returned to Broadway in 1960, co-starring in the short lived There Was a Little Girl opposite Jane Fonda.

Joey Heatherton received major publicity following her guest appearance on the January 1965 premiere episode of the teen dance show Hullabaloo.

Joey Heatherton was featured on several more episodes of the show and released "Hullabaloo", a song that she had performed on the show, on Coral Records.

At the invitation of Dean Martin, Joey Heatherton appeared extensively on The Dean Martin Show starting with the premiere episode of September 16,1965.

Joey Heatherton made multiple appearances on other 1960s television variety shows, such as The Andy Williams Show, The Hollywood Palace, The Ed Sullivan Show, and This Is Tom Jones.

From 1965 to 1977, Joey Heatherton performed live with Bob Hope's touring USO troupe, entertaining the GIs with her singing, dancing, and provocative outfits.

Excerpts from the USO tours were televised as part of Hope's long-running series of NBC monthly specials, culminating in the top-rated Christmas shows, where Joey Heatherton's segments were regularly featured.

Joey Heatherton appeared in the movies Twilight of Honor, Where Love Has Gone, and My Blood Runs Cold.

The only one of the three films to be made in color, 1964's Where Love Has Gone, was a big-budget melodrama based on Harold Robbins' roman a clef about the scandalous Lana Turner-Cheryl Crane-Johnny Stompanato manslaughter case, with Joey Heatherton playing the daughter of the Turner character.

The William Conrad thriller My Blood Runs Cold marked Joey Heatherton's first leading role in a film, opposite Troy Donahue.

Joey Heatherton performed in Las Vegas and acted in a few television shows and films, including the 1972 thriller Bluebeard, wherein she did her only onscreen nude scene.

Joey Heatherton posed for the topless image while filming Bluebeard.

Each episode involved Ray Joey Heatherton waxing nostalgic over life with his daughter while rooting through his attic.

In 1977, Joey Heatherton played the starring role as Xaviera Hollander in the Watergate-inspired The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington.

In 1997, Joey Heatherton appeared nude in an issue of Playboy.

Joey Heatherton pleaded guilty, promised to undergo psychiatric treatment, and was given a suspended sentence.

Joey Heatherton filed for divorce in September 1971 and her career lost its luster; some say she never recovered from the psychological shock of Rentzel's offense.

Joey Heatherton was acquitted of both charges in September 1986.

Joey Heatherton then handed one of the officers her purse to verify her identity.

In October 1987, a court ruled that the search was unconstitutional as Joey Heatherton was not advised that she could refuse a purse search.