Joan Staley

Joan Staley was born on May 20, 1940 in USA. Joan Staley's big-screen debut came with The Emperor Waltz directed by Billy Wilder in 1948. Joan Staley is known for The Jean Arthur Show directed by Sidney Miller, Jean Arthur stars as Patricia Marshall and Ron Harper as Paul Marshall. The upcoming new tvshow Joan Staley plays is Rango - Season 1 which will be released on Jan 13, 1967.

Lovely Joan Staley was born Joan McConchie on May 20, 1940 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and started taking violin lessons by the time she was three years old. Living in Los Angeles, her prodigious talent was obvious. She soon joined a baby orchestra in Los Angeles and, within a few years, became a Junior Symphony performer at age six. She also made her unbilled specialty debut on film as a child violinist in La Valse de l'empereur (1948), starring Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine.Her father's business had the family traveling throughout Europe growing up but she later relocated to California and briefly enrolled at Chapman College in the Los Angeles area. Becoming a stunning, statuesque beauty, she re-directed herself back to a career in show business, singing backup on records for Sam Phillips and working as a secretary to make ends meet while appearing in local L.A. stage productions.In 1958, she was approached by a photographer and eventually posed for Playboy magazine, becoming November's centerfold. The attention warranted her an MGM contract and cheesecake bit parts came her way with such movies as L'inconnu de Las Vegas (1960) and Diamants sur canapé (1961). She appeared front-and-center à la Raquel Welch as a scantily-clad prehistoric turn-on in Hector Servadac (1961), but nothing much came of it.Following her perky love interests in the mediocre western La parole est au colt (1966), starring Audie Murphy, and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966), a Don Knotts comedy film, and guest appearances on such TV shows as "Rango," "Pistols and Petticoats, "Mission: Impossible," "Ironside" and "Adam-12," Joan's career went on hiatus after a horse-riding accident.Briefly married to Chuck Staley, her second husband is former Universal exec Dale Sheets. Twins were born to them, a boy and girl, on March 24, 1971. Since then, with the exception of a brief appearance on an episode of "Dallas" in 1982, Joan remained with family life and other outside pursuits. She died on November 24, 2019.