Joan Taylor's mother, Amelia Berky, was a vaudeville singing-dancing star in the 1920s. Her father was a prop man in Hollywood during that same period, but, after Joan's birth, the family moved to Lake Forest, Illinois, where her father managed a movie theater. She developed a love of movies from watching so many at her father's theater, and she ...
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, 20 Million Miles to Earth, War Paint, Apache Woman, Fools Rush In, Girls in Prison, War Drums, The Savage, Fort Yuma, Omar Khayyam, Off Limits, Fighting Man of the Plains, Rose Marie
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Fact
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She is buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica, California.
2
Entertained in USO tour of military hospitals during WWII.
3
Father Joseph Emma was from Sicily. He became a movie manager and a Hollywood prop man. Mother Amelia Berky was from Austria and a vaudeville dancer/singer.
4
Came out of retirement for a time to write for film and TV in the late 80s/early 90s. Also made cameos as an actress.
5
Was in a recurring role as an intriguing, subtle love interest for Chuck Connors in The Rifleman (1958) series. She was replaced by Patricia Blair (later of Daniel Boone (1964) TV fame) when Joan's husband, producer/director Leonard Freeman, relocated the family to Hawaii where he was producing the Hawaii Five-O (1968) series. She abruptly retired in December of 1963 to raise her daughter.
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Dubbed a "Golden Circle Girl" at Paramount during the early 50s.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Savage
1952
Luta
On Dangerous Ground
1951
Hazel (uncredited)
Lights Out
1951
TV Series
Last Date
1950
Short
Jeanne
Fighting Man of the Plains
1949
Evelyn Slocum
77 Sunset Strip
1963
TV Series
Beth Collins
The Rifleman
1960-1962
TV Series
Milly Scott / Millie Scott
The Dick Powell Theatre
1962
TV Series
Maggie
The Real McCoys
1962
TV Series
Mrs. Tate
Cain's Hundred
1962
TV Series
Nancy Crawford
Bronco
1962
TV Series
Lorain Mitchell
My Three Sons
1961
TV Series
Muriel Stewart
Rawhide
1961
TV Series
Paibada
The Detectives
1961
TV Series
Myrna Fontaine
Lock Up
1960
TV Series
Lauren Bodret
Death Valley Days
1960
TV Series
Mady
Colt .45
1959
TV Series
Ellen McGraw
The Millionaire
1959
TV Series
Mary Ann Wilson
The Texan
1959
TV Series
Rita Maynor
Shotgun Slade
1959
TV Series
Philip Marlowe
1959
TV Series
Julie Kenton
Men Into Space
1959
TV Series
Carol Gordon
21 Beacon Street
1959
TV Series
Ruth
U.S. Marshal
1959
TV Series
Maryjo Ulman aka Gloria Sawyer
Gunsmoke
1959
TV Series
Anna Wheat
Yancy Derringer
1958
TV Series
Lavinia Lake
Peter Gunn
1958
TV Series
Liz Hatton
Zane Grey Theater
1958
TV Series
Rose Bailey
Mike Hammer
1958
TV Series
Diane Baxter / Jackie
Wagon Train
1958
TV Series
Bright Star
Omar Khayyam
1957
Yaffa
20 Million Miles to Earth
1957
Marisa Leonardo
War Drums
1957
Riva
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
1956
Carol Marvin
Girls in Prison
1956
Anne Carson
State Trooper
1956
TV Series
Marietta Beck
Fort Yuma
1955
Francesca
Apache Woman
1955
Anne LeBeau
Rose Marie
1954
Wanda
War Paint
1953
Wanima
Off Limits
1952
Helen
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Heart of a Stranger
2002
TV Movie teleplay
Fools Rush In
1997
story
Redlands
1990
Video short
An Invasion of Privacy
1983
TV Movie novel "Asking for It"
Family
1979
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Redlands
1990
Video short
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
To Race the Wind
1980
TV Movie associate producer - as Rose Freeman
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hawaii Five-0
2012
TV Series in memory of - 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)
2010
Documentary
Herself
The Jack Paar Tonight Show
1960
TV Series
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
2011
Documentary
Anne LeBeau (uncredited)
Known for movies
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) as Carol Marvin
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) as Marisa Leonardo
The Rifleman (1960-1962) as Milly Scott / Millie Scott
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