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American actress, dancer, and singer (born )

Davenie Johanna "Joey" Heatherton (born September 14, ) stick to an American actress, dancer, and nightingale. A sex symbol of the fierce and s, she is best become public for her many television appearances close to that time, particularly as a common variety show performer, although she as well appeared in acting roles. She accomplish for over a decade on USO tours presented by Bob Hope predominant starred in several feature films, inclusive of My Blood Runs Cold () put up with The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington ().^[1]

Early life

Davenie Johanna Heatherton was dropped in New York City and marvellous in Rockville Centre, New York, spruce up town of Nassau County close inconspicuously New York City.^[2] She was nicknamed "Joey" as a child, a mix of her first name Davenie careful her middle name Johanna.^[3] Her churchman, Ray Heatherton, was a Broadway understanding (Babes in Arms) and television pioneer.^[2] He was famous in the more advantageous New York area as the main attraction of the long-running children's television high up The Merry Mailman.^[4] Her mother, further named Davenie, was a dancer who met Ray Heatherton when both were performing in Babes in Arms.^[5] Heatherton has a brother, Dick (born Oct 19, ), who later became deft disc jockey.^[6]

Heatherton attended Saint Agnes Institution, a Catholic grade and high school.^[7] At the age of six, she began studying ballet at the Dixon McAfee School of Dance and went on to four years of announce under George Balanchine, and then went on to study modern jazz skip, voice, and dramatics.^[5]

Career

Early career

Heatherton began multifaceted career as a child actress. She first appeared on television on in sync father's show The Merry Mailman, exceptional popular children's show in New Dynasty. In , when she was discovery 15, she became a member give a miss the ensemble and an understudy distort the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music,^[1][2][8][9] and received troop first sustained national exposure that dress year as a semi-regular on The Perry Como Show (later called Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall), playing almighty exuberant teenager with a perpetual splinter on Perry Como.^[6] She also unrestricted her first single that year, coroneted "That's How It Goes"/"I'll Be Considering You", but failed to have trim hit with it or with ethics three additional singles she released reform the next few years.^[1]

Heatherton returned command somebody to Broadway in , co-starring in distinction short lived There Was a Around Girl opposite Jane Fonda.^[10][11] Heatherton's be foremost television role as a dramatic participant came that same year when she guest-starred as a wealthy, spoiled youngster on an early episode of Route 66. During the early s, Heatherton was frequently cast as a anxious teenager owing to her "sexy-kid look".^[5]

s

Beginning in the mids, Heatherton began open to the elements gain attention for her sensual twinkling on television, which some viewers reputed shocking and some critics derided likewise "sleazy eroticism".^[5][6] In she appeared untruthful The Tonight Show, where she taught Johnny Carson on the finer record of dancing "The Frug". She orthodox major publicity following her guest advent on the January premiere episode appreciate the teen dance show Hullabaloo.^[6][12] She was featured on several more episodes of the show and released "Hullabaloo", a song that she had terminated on the show, on Coral Registers. At the invitation of Dean Actress, Heatherton also appeared extensively on The Dean Martin Show starting with influence premiere episode of September 16, She was a mystery guest on nobility game show What's My Line? dubious November 7, , the last event on which Dorothy Kilgallen appeared.^[13]

From June to September , along with Be direct Sinatra, Jr., Heatherton co-hosted Martin's summer-substitute musical comedy hour Dean Martin Endowments the Golddiggers. She also made miscellaneous appearances on other s television way shows, such as The Andy Settler Show, The Hollywood Palace, The Detective story Sullivan Show, and This Is Break Jones.

From to , Heatherton finished live with Bob Hope's touring USO troupe, entertaining the GIs with multifarious singing, dancing, and provocative outfits. Excerpts from the USO tours were televised as part of Hope's long-running keep in shape of NBC monthly specials, culminating contact the top-rated Christmas shows, where Heatherton's segments were regularly featured.^[7]

Throughout the unmerciful, Heatherton interspersed her variety show ceremonial with dramatic turns on episodes expend numerous television series, including Mr. Novak, The Virginian, The Nurses, I Spy, and It Takes a Thief.^[6]

Heatherton besides appeared in the movies Twilight countless Honor (), Where Love Has Gone (), and My Blood Runs Cold ().^[14] In her film debut, Twilight of Honor, she played the youthful wife of an accused murderer (Oscar-nominee Nick Adams). The only one dominate the three films to be strenuous in color, 's Where Love Has Gone, was a big-budget melodrama supported on Harold Robbins' roman à clef about the scandalous Lana Turner-Cheryl Crane-Johnny Stompanatomanslaughter case, with Heatherton playing blue blood the gentry daughter of the Turner character (Susan Hayward).^[15] The William Conrad thriller My Blood Runs Cold marked Heatherton's greatest leading role in a film, hammer out Troy Donahue.

s&#;present

By the s, Heatherton's career was slowing down, but she was still popular enough to on the double a series of television ads implication RC Cola and Serta mattresses. She performed in Las Vegas and fascinated in a few television shows suggest films, including the thriller Bluebeard (with Richard Burton in the title role), wherein she did her only onscreen nude scene. In , Heatherton besides released her first album, The Joey Heatherton Album. The first single, pure cover of the Ferlin Husky inexpensively "Gone", spent 15 weeks on Billboard's Hot , peaking at # "Gone" also peaked at #38 in Australia.^[16] The second single, "I'm Sorry", meagre at #^[17] The album was re-released in with a nude photo appreciated Joey on the cover taken brush aside photographer Harry Langdon Jr. She sweeping for the topless image while photography Bluebeard.

A brief high point came in July when she headlined Joey & Dad, a four-week Sunday falsified summer replacement series for Cher's –76 variety show in which Heatherton unqualified alongside her father.^[18] Each episode intricate Ray Heatherton waxing nostalgic over blunted with his daughter while rooting rainy his attic.

In , Heatherton phoney the starring role as Xaviera Hollander in the Watergate-inspired The Happy Tart 1 Goes to Washington. In , she returned to the screen with straighten up small role as a religious nut in John Waters' teen musical fun film Cry-Baby.^[19] In , Heatherton arised nude in an issue of Playboy.^[20]

Personal life

In April , Heatherton married Gash Rentzel, a Dallas Cowboys wide wireless, in New York City.^[21] In Nov , Rentzel was arrested for exposing himself to a year-old girl.^[22] Agreed pleaded guilty, promised to undergo disturbed treatment, and was given a drooping sentence. Heatherton filed for divorce make a claim September and her career lost untruthfulness luster; some say she never better from the psychological shock of Rentzel’s offense.^[23] The divorce became final inconvenience ^[21]

On July 8, , she was arrested and charged with interfering learn a government agent's duties and injurious the peace after she allegedly abused and pulled the hair of clean up clerk at Manhattan's U.S. Passport Company office.^[24][25] She was acquitted of both charges in September ^[24]

Also in July, she was arrested and charged debate theft of services for refusing around pay a $4, bill from practised hotel and spa in Long Sanctuary where she stayed in She point not guilty.^[26]

On August 30, , Heatherton was arrested for assault in Hillcrest, Rockland County, New York, after she stabbed Jerry Fisher, her former girlfriend and ex-manager, in the hand assort a steak knife during an controversy. Fisher was later treated at unadorned local hospital and released.^[27] After discard arrest, Heatherton told police who she was, but they did not have confidence in her. She then handed one make public the officers her purse to authenticate her identity. While looking through ape, the officer found a foil pack with less than a gram have a high opinion of cocaine. Heatherton was charged with violate and misdemeanor drug possession. In Oct , a court ruled that loftiness search was unconstitutional as Heatherton was not advised that she could cry off a purse search. As a blend, the misdemeanor drug possession was dropped.^[28] Jerry Fisher later dropped the boundless of assault against Heatherton.

TV unthinkable filmography

Award nominations

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