With blonde hair, big blue eyes and a big smile, Joan was usually cast as the wisecracking working girl who was the best friend of the lead. Born into vaudeville to a stage comic named Eddie, Joan was on the stage when she was three years old. For years, she toured the circuit with her parents and joined a stock company when she was 17. She made her New York debut with the Ziegfeld Follies and appeared in several Broadway productions. She was starring with James Cagney on Broadway in Penny A ...[Read Story]