Joanne Dru
Joanne Dru (born January 31, 1922 in Logan , West Virginia , † September 10, 1996 in Los Angeles , California , actually Joanne Letitia LaCock ) was an American film actress , who is known for her roles in westerns .
Life
Joanne Letitia LaCock was born in Logan, West Virginia, to a drugstore owner in 1922 , and moved to New York with her mother in 1940 at the age of 18 following her father's death . Her younger brother is the actor and television presenter Peter Marshall (* 1926). After Joanne Dru found a job with the Powers agency as a model in New York and had her last name changed to Marshall , Al Jolson selected her as a dancer for the cast of his latest Broadway show Hold Onto Your Hats . During this time she met and fell in love with popular singer Dick Haymes while performing at the Paramount Theater in New York. She had danced there with the Samba Sirens as part of Harry James ' supporting program. After getting married, they both moved to Hollywood , where she found work in a theater. Spied on by a talent scout, she played her first role in a film in Abie's Irish Rose (1946) directed by A. Edward Sutherland .
She was cast in a variety of feature films and television films over the next decade. She played her best-known roles in Howard Hawks ' Red River (1948), and John Ford's The Devil's Captain (1949). Hawks was the one who changed her name to Dru . They also gave a highly acclaimed performance in the Oscar-winning drama The man who wanted to rule (1949) and played alongside Dan Dailey in The Pride of St. Louis (1952) about the famous pitcher of the Major League of Baseball Jerome "Dizzy" Dean . At that time she and Haymes divorced in 1949. Haymes' alcoholism had not caused the alienation, but it did exacerbate existing marital problems.
Just one month later, she married John Ireland , which they used to shoot at Red River had met. This marriage lasted until 1957. Ireland was in the industry as a womanizer, saying womanizer . She subsequently married twice: George Pierose (1963) and the businessman CV Wood Jr. (1972).
She later complained in an interview to Hedda Hopper that her type had been reduced to westerns. Once an actor is typcast, he would be that until the end of his career. Besides, she would never have liked horses. Regardless, she also appeared in In the circus of the three arenas / The circus clown (1954), which did not change the fact that her cinema career was nearing its end. However, she could still be seen on the television screen. She played from 1960 the female lead in the ABC - sitcom Guestward, Ho!
After the series was discontinued, she only appeared sporadically in television series until the end of the 60s and the first half of the 70s. Though considered a capable and popular film actress, she owed her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame primarily to her presence on television. She made her last appearance on the big screen in 1980 as Rosy Labouche in the Terence Hill film The Supercop .
Joanne Dru had three children with Haymes, Richard Ralph Haymes (* July 24, 1942), Helen Joanna Haymes (* May 13, 1944) and Barbara Nugent Haymes (* September 19, 1947, † September 16, 1993). She died in Los Angeles, California, aged 74, of lymphedema , which in all likelihood was the after-effects of cancer therapy. Her last husband and one of her daughters had died three years earlier.
Filmography (selection)
- 1946: Abie's Irish Rose
- 1948: Red River
- 1949: The Devil's Captain (She wore a yellow Ribbon)
- 1949: The man who wanted to rule (All the King's men)
- 1950: West St. Louis (Wagonmaster)
- 1950: The executioner sat at the table (711 Ocean Drive)
- 1951: Vengeance Valley (Vengeance Valley)
- 1951: Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
- 1952: Return of the Texan
- 1952: The Pride of St. Louis
- 1952: My Pal Gus
- 1953: Louisiana's Bay of Death (Thunder Bay)
- 1953: Hot West (Outlaw Territory)
- 1953: Strandgut (Forbidden)
- 1954: Duffy of San Quentin
- 1954: Siege of Red River
- 1954: Caravan westward (Southwest Passage)
- 1954: In The Three Ring Circus
- 1954: Day of Triumph
- 1955: The Black Prince (The Dark Avenger)
- 1955: Your very devoted ... (Sincerely Yours)
- 1955: Bloody Road (Hell on Frisco Bay)
- 1956: Drango
- 1958: The Light in the Forest
- 1959: Tomorrow's Your Turn (The Wild and the Innocent)
- 1960: The Treasure of the Balearic Islands (September Storm)
- 1960–1961: Guestward Ho! (TV series, 38 episodes)
- 1965: The example of Sylvia West (Sylvia)
- 1967: The Green Hornet ( The Green Hornet ; TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1975: Dr. med. Marcus Welby (TV series, 1 episode)
- 1980: The Supercop (Super Snooper)
literature
- Gregor Hauser: Muzzle flashes: The 50 best B-Westerns of the 50s and their stars . Verlag Reinhard Marheinecke 2015, ISBN 978-3-932053-85-6 . Pp. 201-204.
Web links
- Joanne Dru in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Joanne Dru in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Obituary in the New York Times, September 13, 1996
- Joanne Dru in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/king-re.html
- ↑ http://www.musicianguide.com/biographies/1608003198/Dick-Haymes.html
- ↑ http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Haymes-2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dru, Joanne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | LaCock, Joanne Letitia (maiden name); Marshall, Joanne Letitia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Logan , West Virginia , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1996 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California , United States |