Joyce Davidson was a television personality in Canada and the United States.
14 Facts About Joyce Davidson
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Joyce Davidson was born Joyce Inez Brock in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan during the Great Depression and was the eldest of four children of Myrtle and Eric Brock.
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Joyce Davidson's father was from England and was a veteran of the First World War while her mother came from a Norwegian family of 11 children.
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Joyce Davidson was a young housewife in Hamilton, Ontario when she entered a beauty contest and won $400 and a trip to New York City.
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In 1954, CBC Television's new Hamilton affiliate, CHCH-TV opened and Joyce Davidson, who had been working in a factory, applied for a job and was hired as an assistant on a cooking show.
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Joyce Davidson then began appearing in television commercials on CHCH and then at CBLT in nearby Toronto.
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Joyce Davidson caused controversy while the Canadian media was reporting on the tour of the country by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, that began on 18 June 1959.
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On that day, Joyce Davidson was on a trip to New York City and was interviewed by Dave Garroway on NBC's Today show.
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Joyce Davidson can be heard talking for only a few seconds on that audio.
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In 1964, Joyce Davidson began working as co-producer of a television talk show titled Hot Line that was broadcast locally in New York.
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Joyce Davidson made the first approach to some of the people who appeared as guests on Hot Line, including Malcolm X, whom she invited for Hot Line immediately after he gave a speech at The Town Hall.
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In 1981, Joyce Davidson went to India for three weeks to work on a documentary about Mother Teresa for PBS.
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Joyce Davidson died at 89 from complications of COVID-19 in Toronto on 7 May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario.
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Joyce Davidson had been residing in Meighen Manor, a long-term care facility where at least 38 residents had died from the pandemic by the time of her death.