Joan Shawlee
While working as a nightclub performer in her native New York City, Joan Shawlee was discovered by comedian Lou Costello of the Abbott and Costello comedy duo. Costello was so impressed by Shawlee that he cast her as an Army lieutenant in the 1947 Abbott and Costello war comedy "Buck Privates Come Home." Shawlee was billed as Joan Fulton in that film and several others, including 1947's "The Vigilantes Return" and "Woman on the Run" in 1950. By the mid-1950s she was credited by her birth name, Joan Shawlee, and started to gain credibility as a wisecracking comedienne, helped in part by her many appearances on TV's "The Abbott and Costello Show." It wasn't until she was cast alongside Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon in 1959's screwball classic "Some Like It Hot," however, that Shawlee's career really began to take off. Shawlee played the tyrannical bandleader Sweet Sue, and quickly earned a fan in the film's director, Billy Wilder. Wilder continued to cast Shawlee in choice supporting roles in several of his later films, including 1960's "The Apartment," 1963's "Irma La Douce," and his last film, 1981's "Buddy Buddy," in which Shawlee played a receptionist.
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Joan Shawlee
Filmography
Movies
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Child Bride of Short Creek | Isaac's mother (Character) | - | 1981 |
63% |
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Buddy Buddy | Receptionist (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Never Con a Killer | Margo (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flash and the Firecat | Rose (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matt Helm | Unknown (Character) | - | 1975 |
50% |
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Willard | Alice (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dead Men Tell No Tales | Polly Grant (Character) | - | 1971 |
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Live a Little, Love a Little | Robbie's Mother (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Guerrillas in Pink Lace | Miss Gloria Maxine (Character) | - | 1964 |
76% |
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Irma La Douce | Amazon Annie (Character) | - | 1963 |
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Critic's Choice | Marge Orr (Character) | - | 1963 |
93% |
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The Apartment | Sylvia (Character) | - | 1960 |
95% |
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Some Like It Hot | Sweet Sue (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bowery to Bagdad | Velma "Cindy Lou" Calhoun (Character) | - | 1955 |
98% |
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A Star Is Born | Announcer (Character) | - | 1954 |
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Casanova's Big Night | Beatrice D'Brizzi (Character) | - | 1954 |
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Francis Joins the WACS | Sgt. Kipp (Character) | - | 1954 |
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About Mrs. Leslie | Girl at Nightclub (Character) | - | 1954 |
63% |
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The Marrying Kind | Party Guest Dancer (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1952 |
88% |
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Woman on the Run | Blonde (Character) | - | 1950 |
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Prehistoric Women | Lotee (Character) | - | 1950 |
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Buck Privates Come Home | Sylvia Hunter (Character) | - | 1947 |
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I'll Be Yours | Blonde (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Runaround | Mamie "Baby" Willis (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cuban Pete | Ann (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | When Lovers Meet | Janie (Character) | - | 1946 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 64% | Highway to Heaven | Woman in Park (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fall Guy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hart to Hart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981-1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Starsky and Hutch | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Feather and Father Gang | Margo (Character) | 1976-1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix | (Annie) Duchess (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rookies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Columbo | Mitilda (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Men at Law | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Pickles Sorrell (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rifleman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Goldie | Lorna (Guest Star) | 1959-1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zorro | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Abbott & Costello Show | Unknown (Character) | 1952-1954 |