Joan Caulfield

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Joan Caulfield on the cover of McCall's Magazine in September 1941

Beatrice Joan Caulfield (born June 1, 1922 in West Orange , New Jersey , United States , † June 18, 1991 in Los Angeles , California , United States) was an American model and an actress in stage and film.

Live and act

Joan Caulfield was already on stage when she was at school, and she made her debut at a private school in the 1930s in the play A Kiss for Cinderella . The blue-eyed blonde was then discovered as a photo model and, just before the United States entered World War II, also graced the cover of women's and fashion magazines such as McCall's Magazine. Soon after, Joan Caulfield arrived on Broadway in New York, where she could be seen from October to December 1942 in the musical comedy Beat the Band, directed and produced by George Abbotts , and from March 1943 to May 1945 at the side of a young colleague Richard, who was still unknown at the time Widmark in the theater comedy Kiss and Tell by F. Hugh Herbert could see. In this long-running successful piece, the artist embodied the Corliss Archer.

Also in 1945, Joan Caulfield was brought to Hollywood by Paramount Pictures and from then on played leading roles in a number of entertainment productions in the late 1940s. She also appears as a singer in one or the other film, for example at the side of Bing Crosby (with the song You Keep Coming Back Like a Song ) in the on-screen musical Blau ist der Himmel , in which Fred Astaire also participated. In the same year 1946 she was seen with the female lead at the side of Bob Hope in the costume comedy With Brush and Sword . In 1947, Joan Caulfield was loaned to Warner Bros. as a partner of Claude Rains for the female lead in the film noir The Un suspect . Already at the beginning of the 1950s, the not-too-versatile actress switched from cinema to television film and appeared in various theater productions adapted for the screen, under the umbrella of series such as The Ford Television Theater, Lux Video Theater, Screen Directors Playhouse, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars and Celebrity Playhouse were broadcast. Joan Caulfield rarely stepped back on the big screen. The 65-year-old artist completed her last role in front of the camera in 1987 in an episode of the TV crime series Murder is Her Hobby .

In the 1960s and 1970s, Joan Caulfield returned to the stage and played, as part of touring stages, in summer repertoire theaters and dinner theaters. Joan Caulfield has had her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1960 . The actress was first married to the film producer Frank Ross from 1950 to 1960 . With him she had a son, who was born in 1959, Caulfield Kevin Ross. Her second husband was the dentist Robert Peterson, with whom she had another son in 1962, John Caulfield Peterson. This marriage also ended in divorce. In 1991 Joan Caulfield died of cancer.

Filmography

  • 1945: Duffy's Tavern
  • 1945: Miss Susie Slagle's
  • 1946: With brush and sword (Monsieur Beaucaire)
  • 1946: The sky is blue (Blue Skies)
  • 1947: Dear Ruth
  • 1947: Everything goes better with singing (Welcome Stranger)
  • 1947: The Unsuspected (The unsuspected)
  • 1947: Girls for Hollywood (Variety Girl) (guest role)
  • 1948: The Sainted Sisters
  • 1948: Fraud (Larceny)
  • 1949: Dear Wife
  • 1950: The Petty Girl
  • 1951: The Lady Says No.
  • 1953–54: My Favorite Husband (continuous role in a TV series)
  • 1955: The big rain (The Rains of Ranchipur)
  • 1957-58: Sally (title role in the television series)
  • 1962: Gunslingers of Wyoming (Cattle King)
  • 1966: The Bloody West (Red Tomahawk)
  • 1967: Shadok (Buckskin)
  • 1973: The Daring Dobermans
  • 1974: The Hatfields and the McCoys (TV movie)
  • 1975: The Space-Watch-Murders (TV movie)
  • 1976: Pony Express Rider
  • 1987: Murder is her hobby (TV series. Episode: Trouble in Eden )

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 45
  • Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. Revised by Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolen. New York 2001, p. 236

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joan Caulfield in the Internet Broadway Database
personal data
SURNAME Caulfield, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caulfield, Beatrice Joan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American model and stage and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH West Orange , New Jersey , United States
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1991
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States