Joan Marshall
Encyclopedia
Joan Marshall was an American
actress.
in Chicago clubs. After appearing as a dancer in the 1945 film The Chicago Kid and a part in the television series Have Gun – Will Travel in 1958, she moved to California the following year. During the 1960s, Marshall frequently guest starred on various television series including Tales of Wells Fargo
, Surfside 6
, Hawaiian Eye
, and The Jack Benny Program
. She also appeared in the films Homicidal
(using the stage name "Jean Arless") and Tammy and the Doctor opposite Sandra Dee
and Peter Fonda
.
Marshall also appeared in the 15 minute unaired pilot
of The Munsters
as Phoebe Munster (who strongly resembled Morticia Addams
). Before the series was picked up, The Munsters was retooled and Marshall was replaced by actress Yvonne De Carlo
. Marshall continued guest starring in episodic television throughout the 1960s before her last role in the 1975 film Shampoo
with Warren Beatty
.
in August 1969. Two years after Ashby's death in 1988, she married executive Mel Bartfield. The couple relocated to Jamaica
where they remained until Marshall's death in 1992.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actress.
Early life and career
Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Marshall began her career as a showgirlShowgirl
A showgirl is a dancer or performer in a stage entertainment show. Showgirl is also often used as a term for a promotional model in trade fairs and car shows, etc...
in Chicago clubs. After appearing as a dancer in the 1945 film The Chicago Kid and a part in the television series Have Gun – Will Travel in 1958, she moved to California the following year. During the 1960s, Marshall frequently guest starred on various television series including Tales of Wells Fargo
Tales of Wells Fargo
Tales of Wells Fargo is an American Western television series that ran from March 18, 1957 to June 2, 1962 on NBC. Produced by Revue Productions, the series aired in a half-hour format until its final season when it expanded to an hour.-Synopsis:...
, Surfside 6
Surfside 6
Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered around a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and featured Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield, II; Van Williams as Kenny Madison ; and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne...
, Hawaiian Eye
Hawaiian Eye
Hawaiian Eye is an American television series that ran from October 1959 to September 1963 on the American Broadcasting Company television network.-Premise:...
, and The Jack Benny Program
The Jack Benny Program
The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio-TV comedy series that ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy.-Cast:*Jack Benny - Himself...
. She also appeared in the films Homicidal
Homicidal
Homicidal is a 1961 thriller film produced and directed by the self-proclaimed "King of Showmanship", William Castle. Written by Robb White, the film stars Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich, Alan Bunce, Richard Rust, and Joan Marshall...
(using the stage name "Jean Arless") and Tammy and the Doctor opposite Sandra Dee
Sandra Dee
Sandra Dee was an American actress. Dee began her career as a model and progressed to film. Best known for her portrayal of ingenues, Dee won a Golden Globe Award in 1959 as one of the year's most promising newcomers, and over several years her films were popular...
and Peter Fonda
Peter Fonda
Peter Henry Fonda is an American actor. He is the son of Henry Fonda, brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget and Justin Fonda...
.
Marshall also appeared in the 15 minute unaired pilot
Television pilot
A "television pilot" is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its inception, the pilot is meant to be the "testing ground" to see if a series will be possibly desired and successful and therefore a test episode of an...
of The Munsters
The Munsters
The Munsters is a 1960s American family television sitcom depicting the home life of a family of monsters. It starred Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster and Yvonne De Carlo as his wife, Lily Munster. The series was a satire of both traditional monster movies and popular family entertainment of the era,...
as Phoebe Munster (who strongly resembled Morticia Addams
Morticia Addams
Morticia A. Addams is the fictional matriarch of "The Addams Family", created by cartoonist Charles Addams and based on his first wife Barbara .Morticia is the wife of Gomez Addams and mother of Wednesday Addams and Pugsley Addams...
). Before the series was picked up, The Munsters was retooled and Marshall was replaced by actress Yvonne De Carlo
Yvonne De Carlo
Yvonne De Carlo was a Canadian-born American actress of film and television. During her six-decade career, her most frequent appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s and included her best-known film roles, such as of Anna Marie in Salome Where She Danced ; Anna in Criss Cross ; Sephora the...
. Marshall continued guest starring in episodic television throughout the 1960s before her last role in the 1975 film Shampoo
Shampoo (film)
Shampoo is a 1975 satirical film written by Robert Towne and directed by Hal Ashby. It stars Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn, with Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Tony Bill and in an early film appearance, Carrie Fisher....
with Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director. He has received a total of fourteen Academy Award nominations, winning one for Best Director in 1982. He has also won four Golden Globe Awards including the Cecil B. DeMille Award.-Early life and...
.
Personal life and death
Marshall was married three times, and had two children, Steven and Shari. She married director Hal AshbyHal Ashby
Hal Ashby was an American film director and film editor.-Birth and early years:Born William Hal Ashby in Ogden, Utah, Ashby grew up in a Mormon household and had a tumultuous childhood as part of a dysfunctional family which included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide and his...
in August 1969. Two years after Ashby's death in 1988, she married executive Mel Bartfield. The couple relocated to Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
where they remained until Marshall's death in 1992.
Selected filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | The Chicago Kid | Dancer | |
| 1958 | Live Fast, Die Young Live Fast, Die Young (film) Live Fast, Die Young is a 1958 film directed by Paul Henreid and written by Ib Melchior. The film stars Mary Murphy, Norma Eberhardt, Mike Connors and Sheridan Comerate... |
Judy Tobin | |
| 1958 | Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer is the title used for two syndicated television series that followed the adventures of fictional private detective Mike Hammer... |
Lisa Greer | Episode: "Play Belles' Toll" |
| 1958 | The Millionaire | Helen Rawlings | Episode: "The Jack Garrison Story" |
| 1958 | Tombstone Territory Tombstone Territory Tombstone Territory is an American Western series starring Pat Conway and Richard Eastham. The series' first two seasons aired on ABC from 1957 to 1959... |
Laura Coleman | Episode: "Fight for a Fugitive" |
| 1958 | Highway Patrol Highway Patrol (TV series) Highway Patrol is a syndicated action crime drama series produced 1955-1959.-Overview:Highway Patrol stars Broderick Crawford as Dan Mathews, the gruff and dedicated head of a police force in an unidentified Western state... |
Alice Carter | Episode: "Hostage" |
| 1958 | Bat Masterson Bat Masterson (TV series) Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black and white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961... |
Laura Hopkins | Episode: "Stampede at Tent City" |
| 1958 | The Rough Riders The Rough Riders (TV series) The Rough Riders is an American Western television series set in the West after the American Civil War. It aired on ABC for the 1958-1959 television season... |
Lydia Kimbrough | Episode: "The Governor" |
| 1960 | M Squad M Squad M Squad is an American police drama television series that ran from 1957 to 1960 on NBC. Its format would later inspire the creation of spoof TV show Police Squad! Its sponsor was the Pall Mall cigarette brand; Lee Marvin, the program's star, appeared in its commercials during the... |
Karen Tinsley | Episode: "Needle in a Haystack" |
| 1960 | Men Into Space Men Into Space Men Into Space is an American sci-fi television series broadcast from September 30, 1959 to September 7, 1960 by CBS which depicted future efforts by the United States Air Force to explore and develop outer space. The black-and-white filmed show starred William Lundigan as Col... |
Lorrie Sigmund | Episode: "Flash in the Sky" |
| 1960 | Lawman Lawman (tv series) Lawman is an American Western television series originally telecast from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay on the ABC Television Network. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during the mid to late 1870s. Warner Bros.... |
Lady Belle Smythe | Episode: "The Lady Belle" |
| 1960 | Bourbon Street Beat Bourbon Street Beat Bourbon Street Beat is a private detective series which aired on the ABC network from 1959-1960 and featured Andrew Duggan as Cal Calhoun, Richard Long as Rex Randolph, Van Williams as Kenny Madison, and Arlene Howell as Melody Lee Mercer, the secretary at the New Orleans detective agency in which... |
Amanda Hale | Episode: "Last Exit" |
| 1960 | Hennesey Hennesey Hennesey is an American military sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1962. The series, which aired for three seasons, stars Jackie Cooper in the title role.-Synopsis:... |
Consuelo Maddox | Episode: "The Marriage of Dr. Blair" |
| 1961 | The Roaring 20's | Carla | Episodes: "Right Off the Boat: Part 1" "Right Off the Boat: Part 2" |
| 1961 | Homicidal | Emily/Warren | Credited as Jean Arless |
| 1962 | The Twilight Zone The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) The Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The series consisted of unrelated episodes depicting paranormal, futuristic, dystopian, or simply disturbing events; each show typically featured a surprising... |
Wilma | Episode 83: "Dead Man's Shoes Dead Man's Shoes (The Twilight Zone) "Dead Man's Shoes" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.This episode was remade in the first revival as "Dead Woman's Shoes" and in the second revival as "Dead Man's Eyes"... " |
| 1963 | Tammy and the Doctor | Vera Parker, Nurse | |
| 1964 | Petticoat Junction Petticoat Junction Petticoat Junction is an American situation comedy produced by Filmways which originally aired on CBS from 1963 to 1970. The series is one of three interrelated shows about rural characters created by Paul Henning; the others are The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres.The setting for the series... |
Lucy Wayne | Episode: "Visit from a Big Star" |
| 1964 | Looking for Love | Miss Devine | |
| 1964 | The Munsters | Phoebe Munster | Unaired pilot |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Elizabeth Gowan | Episode: "The Insolents" |
| 1966 | Laredo Laredo (TV series) Laredo is an NBC Western television series starring Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers. The program premiered on September 16, 1965, and the final new episode was broadcast on April 7, 1967. The series was produced by Universal Television.-Synopsis:Laredo... |
Miss Ivy Vine | Episode: "Limit of the Law Larkin" |
| 1967 | Star Trek Star Trek: The Original Series Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions . Star Trek was telecast on NBC from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969... |
Lt. Areel Shaw | Episode: "Court Martial" |
| 1967 | I Spy | Ellie | Episode: "Casanova from Canarsie" |
| 1967 | Bonanza Bonanza Bonanza is an American western television series that both ran on and was a production of NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series and still continues to air in syndication. It centers on the... |
Millie Perkins | Episode: "A Man Without Land" |
| 1967 | The Happiest Millionaire The Happiest Millionaire The Happiest Millionaire is a 1967 musical film starring Fred MacMurray and based upon the true story of Philadelphia millionaire Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Costume Design by Bill Thomas. The musical song score is by Robert and Richard Sherman... |
Maid | Uncredited |
| 1968 | The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit | Mimsey | |
| 1969 | The Great Sex War | Alternative title: Make Love Not War | |
| 1975 | Shampoo | Mrs. Schumann | |