Jo-Carroll Dennison

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Jo-Carroll Dennison (born December 16, 1923 in Florence , Arizona ) is an American actress and beauty queen . She won the Miss America title in 1942 and then had a film career of more than thirty years.

Life

Dennison grew up as the only child of vaudeville actors Henry Dennison and Carroll Brownd in the circus business and therefore moved several times in their youth. So she grew up next to her birthplace Florence in San Francisco , Santa Barbara and Tyler . Dennison was already on stage for singing and dancing at the age of two. She graduated from Hale Center High School in Hale Center in 1940 and then worked as a stenographer in Tyler.

In 1942 Dennison won the Miss Texas contest , thereby participating in the Miss America election, which she also won. As the reigning Miss America , Dennison mainly completed visits to the troops and visited military hospitals. She also advertised war bonds . She was the first Miss Texas to receive the Miss America title.

After her election to Miss America , Dennison received a film contract with 20th Century Fox . A film and television career that lasted until 1976 followed. One of her best-known roles is that of Ann Murray in The Jazz Singer from 1946.

Jo-Carroll Dennison was married twice: from 1945 to 1950 with comedian Phil Silvers and from 1954 to 1981 with television producer Russell Stoneham, with whom she has two children. Both marriages ended in divorce. Dennison lives in Idyllwild in the San Jacinto Mountains .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1944: Winged Victory
  • 1945: Love Fair (State Fair)
  • 1946: The Missing Lady
  • 1946: The Jazz Singer (The Jolson Story)
  • 1950: Amazons of the Primeval Forest (Prehistoric Women)
  • 1950: Dick Tracy (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1951: Secrets of Beauty
  • 1951: picked up (pickup)
  • 1976: Everybody Rides the Carousel

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. JO CARROLL DENNISON. In: Those obscure objects of desire. January 28, 2016, accessed November 1, 2019 .
  2. Robert Earl Reed: Tyler . Arcadia Publishing , Mount Pleasant 2008, ISBN 978-0738548418 , page 97.
  3. Diane A. Rhodes: IDYLLWILD: Former hospice worker what Miss America 1942. In: The Press-Enterprise. March 22, 2011, accessed November 1, 2019 .