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Joyce Jameson

Highest Rated: 93% The Apartment (1960)

Lowest Rated: 60% The Balcony (1963)

Birthday: Sep 26, 1932

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Actress Joyce Jameson made her initial splash as a performer in the musical comedy revues of Billy Barnes (her future husband) in the early 1950s. Her curvaceous figure and platinum blond hair were de rigueur in show business at the time, thanks to the phenomenal stardom of Marilyn Monroe. She made her screen debut (albeit uncredited) as a chorus girl in the 1951 musical "Show Boat." She played on her looks, portraying the bubbly bimbo to a host of male TV personalities like Danny Thomas, Steve Allen, Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Jack Benny. She began to be taken more seriously and received juicier parts in the 1960s, in Billy Wilder's comedy "The Apartment," an adaptation of Jean Genet's drama "The Balcony," opposite Elvis Presley in the musical "Frankie and Johnny," and every bit the match for Vincent Price and Peter Lorre in the horror film "Tales of Terror." Jameson continued to appear in a variety of hit TV shows throughout the 1970s and diversified her film roles with appearances in the cult classic "Death Race 2000" and alongside Clint Eastwood twice, in the western "The Outlaw Josey Wales" and the comedy "Every Which Way But Loose." She was a long-time girlfriend of "Man From U.N.C.L.E." co-star Robert Vaughn, who later revealed in his autobiography that Jameson was prone to depression. She committed suicide by an overdose of pills at the age of 54.

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Highest-Rated Movies

93% 94% The Apartment
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89% 69% The Comedy of Terrors
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80% 67% Good Neighbor Sam
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73% 63% Tales of Terror
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60% 47% The Balcony
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33% Hardbodies
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Tip on a Dead Jockey
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30% The Split
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40% Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
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The Love Boat
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Filmography

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Hardbodies 33% 1984 Rounder's Mom Actor Pray TV 1980 Millie Peebles Actor KGOD 1980 Millie Peebles Actor Scorchy 38% 1976 Mary Davis Actor The Love Boat 1976 Louella McKenzie Actor The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant 1975 Mrs. Graham Actor Promise Him Anything 1974 Lucille Actor Women in Chains 1971 Simpson Actor Crosscurrent 1971 Lulu Actor The Split 30% 1968 Jenifer Actor Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! 40% 1966 Telephone operator Actor Good Neighbor Sam 80% 67% 1964 Girl Actor The Comedy of Terrors 89% 69% 1964 Amaryllis Trumbull Actor The Balcony 60% 47% 1963 Penitent Actor Tales of Terror 73% 63% 1962 Annabel Actor The Apartment 93% 94% 1960 The Blonde Actor Tip on a Dead Jockey 1957 Sue Fan Finley Actor Problem Girls 1953 Peggy Carstairs Actor
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