Joan Davis

Actress

Date of birth : 06/29/1912

Date of death : 05/22/1961

City of birth : St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

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.