Joan Davis

Info

Role

Actress

Date of birth

06/29/1912

Date of death

05/22/1961

Place of birth

St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

Joan Davis

Biography

Widely popular comedienne appeared in some movies and on radio in the 40s and on early television. She starred in the popular television series, I Married Joan (1952), with Jim Backus as her husband and her real-life daughter, Beverly Wills as her sister. Joan died of a sudden heart attack in 1961. Two years later, a fire tragically claimed the lives of her mother, daughter and two grandsons.