1. Joi Lansing was noted for her pin-up photos and roles in B-movies, as well as a prominent role in the famous opening "tracking shot" in Orson Welles' 1958 crime drama Touch of Evil.
19 Facts About Joi Lansing
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Joi Lansing frequently was clad in skimpy costumes and bikinis that accentuated her figure, but she never posed nude.
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Joi Lansing was born at Salt Lake Regional Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1929 to Jack Glen Brown, a shoe salesman and orchestra musician, and Virginia Grace Brown, a housewife.
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Joi Lansing was discovered at age 14 by Arthur Freed, the producer, and was signed to an MGM talent school contract.
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Joi Lansing received top billing in Hot Cars, a crime drama involving a stolen-car racket.
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Joi Lansing had a brief role as an astronaut's girlfriend in sci-fi parody Queen of Outer Space and had fourth billing in the science fiction feature The Atomic Submarine.
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Joi Lansing's songs included "The Web of Love" and "The Silencers".
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In 1964, producer Stanley Todd discussed a film project with Joi Lansing, tentatively titled Project 22, with location shooting planned in Yugoslavia, and with George Hamilton and Geraldine Chaplin named to the cast.
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Joi Lansing played "Lola" in the romantic comedy Marriage on the Rocks, with a cast that included Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, and Dean Martin.
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Joi Lansing turned down the chance to replace Jayne Mansfield in The Ice House, and instead appeared opposite Basil Rathbone and John Carradine in Hillbillys in a Haunted House, as Mamie Van Doren's replacement.
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Joi Lansing started singing in nightclubs in the early 1960s, and her performances are documented in several trade magazines.
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Joi Lansing performed with the Xavier Cugat orchestra and briefly toured with Les Paul, but little is known about the songs she actually recorded.
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The biggest single break of Joi Lansing's career was from 1955 through 1959 as the character Shirley Swanson in roughly 125 episodes of The Bob Cummings Show.
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Joi Lansing appeared as herself in a 1956 I Love Lucy season 6 episode, "Desert Island".
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Joi Lansing achieved some distinction for beating out Lois Lane to marry Superman as the title character in "Superman's Wife", a 1958 episode of Adventures of Superman.
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Joi Lansing appeared in six episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies in the role of Gladys Flatt, the glamorous wife of bluegrass musician Lester Flatt.
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Joi Lansing has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles for her contributions to television.
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Joi Lansing died from breast cancer on August 7,1972, at St John's Hospital, Santa Monica, California.
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Joi Lansing had been treated surgically for the disease two years earlier.