Profile
Joi Lansing
Actress
Female
Born
Apr 6, 1929
Hometown
Salt Lake City, Utah
Died
Aug 7, 1972
Death Place
Santa Monica, Cal...
Other Names
Brown, Joyce Rae
Joi Lansing was an American model, film and television actress, as well as a nightclub singer. She was most noted for her pin-up photos, and for her minor roles in B-movies. She was once named "TV's Marilyn Monroe."
Romance
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Stan ToddMarried 1959 - 1972
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Lance FullerMarried 1950 - 1953
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Arthur M. Loew Jr.Fling 1949
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Jerome SafronMarried 1949 - 1950
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1928
Birth
Lansing was born Joy Brown in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1928 to Jack Glenn Brown, a shoe salesman, and Virginia Grace (née Shupe) Brown, a housewife.
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TWENTIES
1948
20 Years Old
Lansing's film career began in 1948, and, in 1952, she played an uncredited role in MGM's Singin' in the Rain.
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THIRTIES
In the opening sequence of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958), she appeared as Zita, the dancer who dies at the end of the famous first tracking shot, during which her character exclaims to a border guard, "I keep hearing this ticking noise inside my head!" Lansing had a brief role as an astronaut's girlfriend in the 1958 sci-fi classic Queen of Outer Space.
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1960
32 Years Old
In the 1960 - 1961 season of the NBC Western Klondike, Lansing appeared as Goldie with Ralph Taeger, James Coburn, and Mari Blanchard.
Lansing broke into night club entertaining in 1965.
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1966
38 Years Old
Lansing performed in the Fiesta Room in Las Vegas, Nevada, in July 1966.
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FORTIES
1972
44 Years Old
In 1972 Joi Lansing died from breast cancer at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California where she had initially been treated surgically for the disease earlier the same year.
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