Joy Harmon
| Joy Harmon | |
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Harmon with Roger Smith in an episode of Mister Roberts, 1965. | |
| Born |
Joy Patricia Harmon May 1, 1940 Flushing, New York, U.S. |
| Years active | 1956-1973 |
| Spouse(s) | Jeff Gourson (1968-2001); 3 children |
| Awards | Miss Connecticut |
Joy Patricia Harmon (born May 1, 1940) is a baker and former American actress.[1]
Career
Joy Patricia Harmon was born in Flushing, New York. She and her family moved to Connecticut in 1946. A runner-up for Miss Connecticut, Harmon was a contestant during the last season of Groucho Marx's television program You Bet Your Life (titled The Groucho Show during its last season), and later a regular on Marx's program Tell It to Groucho (credited as "Patty Harmon"). She guest-starred on several 1960s TV series, including Gidget, Batman, and The Monkees. She appeared in a cameo role as blonde Ardice in the Jack Lemmon comedy Under the Yum Yum Tree in 1963. She had a role as Tony Dow's girlfriend in the 1965-66 television soap opera, Never Too Young.[2]
Harmon's best-remembered acting roles are as the thirty-foot-tall Merrie in Village of the Giants (1965; where she captures normal-sized Johnny Crawford and suspends him from her bikini top), and as the car-washing "Lucille" in Cool Hand Luke (1967).[2]
Aunt Joy's Cakes
Harmon retired from Hollywood to marry Jeff Gourson and raise three children. Later, she started her own company, Aunt Joy's Cakes, a bakery located in Burbank, California.[3]
Selected filmography
- Angel in My Pocket (1969)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
- Village of the Giants (1965)
- The Loved One (1965)
- Young Dillinger (1965)
- Roustabout (1964)
- Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963)
- Mad Dog Coll (1961)
- Let's Rock (1958)
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
Selected television roles
- Thicker Than Water (1973)
- The Odd Couple (1972)
- Love, American Style (1972)
- The Monkees (2 appearances; 1967)
- That Girl (1967)
- Occasional Wife (1967)
- The Rounders (1966)
- Bewitched (1966)
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1966)
- Batman (1966)
- Gidget (1965)
- Burke's Law (1964-65)
- My Three Sons (1964)
- The Beverly Hillbillies (1963)
References
- ↑ Sullivan, Steve (1998-06-15). Bombshells: Glamour Girls of a Lifetime. Macmillan. pp. 43–. ISBN 9781429956222. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
- 1 2 "Joy Harmon Movies". Blockbuster. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
- ↑ "Aunt Joy's Cakes". Yelp.com. Retrieved June 28, 2015.
External links
- "About Us". Aunt Joy's Cakes. Archived from the original on August 20, 2013.
- Joy Harmon at the Internet Movie Database