(born 1942)

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Joanna Pettet, 1976

Born in 1942, she shaved 2 years off early on. Even the Daily Mail in an article on her and her relationship with the late Sir Alan Bates still got her age wrong and quote her 'official' age. This beautiful, stylish London-born blonde started out quite promising on the stage and in late 60s films before phasing her career out in the 90s. Joanna Pettet was born Joanna Jane Salmon and raised in Canada. Her trek to New York to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse paid off with subsequent Broadway roles in "Take Her, She's Mine" (debut: understudy to Elizabeth Ashley), "The Chinese Prime Minister" and "Poor Richard," which won her the Theatre World Award in 1965. A steady role on "The Doctors" daytime soap occurred around this time. Escorted to Hollywood, Joanna stood her own ground among the other talented hopefuls such as Candace Bergen, Shirley Knight, Jessica Walter and the late Joan Hackett and Elizabeth Hartman in the glossy Ivy-League film soap The Group (1966). Continuing on, she proved a diverting love interest in the British thriller Robbery (1967) and in the French/English co-production Night of the Generals (1967), and was one of the more interesting figures to come out of the elephantine James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967), in which she played the fetching, exotic dancing Mata Bond. A versatile player, she was unfortunately cast in roles that emphasized her beauty than talent. Playboy magazine took an interest, gracing a nude pictorial in 1968, the same year she married actor Alex Cord. A host of bad films, however, such as Blue (1968) and The Best House in London (1969) put the bite on her film career. In the 70s, she was prominently featured in standard TV-movies such as "The Weekend Nun" (1972), "Pioneer Woman" (1973), "A Cry in the Wilderness" (1974), "Appointment with a Killer" (1975) "Captains and the Kings" (1977), "Sex and the Married Woman" (1977) and "The Return of Frank Cannon" (1980). Series work included "Night Gallery" and "Harry O," but nothing led to her stretching her abilities. By the late 70s, she was appearing in "has-been" shows like "Fantasy Island" and "The Love Boat." Little seen after that her career ended in lowbudget drek such as Double Exposure (1982), Sweet Country (1986) and Terror in Paradise (1990). Since then, Joanna faded out of the scene, living a reclusive life in the Anza Desert in California. She rekindled an old love affair with Sir Alan Bates in the last few years of his life. Divorced from Cord in 1976, she had one son, Damien, who died of a drugs overdose in 1996. Click here to buy posters! joanna pettet dvds | videos al pacino | michelle pfeiffer yul brynner | christopher plummer | romy schneider the godfather | the godfather part ii marlon brando | james caan | diane keaton | al pacino laurence olivier | clark gable | vivien leigh | leslie howard | alfred hitchcock | robert montgomery | grace kelly olivia de havilland | humphrey bogart | howard hawks | frank capra | charlie chaplin | lauren bacall | fritz lang jean harlow | greta garbo | ava gardner | audrey hepburn | edward g. robinson | john garfield erich von stroheim | wim wenders | madeleine carroll | marlene dietrich | rita hayworth joanna pettet dvds joanna pettet videos joanna pettet dvds | videos al pacino | michelle pfeiffer yul brynner | christopher plummer | romy schneider the godfather | the godfather part ii marlon brando | james caan | diane keaton | al pacino laurence olivier | clark gable | vivien leigh | leslie howard | alfred hitchcock | robert montgomery | grace kelly olivia de havilland | humphrey bogart | howard hawks | frank capra | charlie chaplin | lauren bacall | fritz lang jean harlow | greta garbo | ava gardner | audrey hepburn | edward g. robinson | john garfield erich von stroheim | wim wenders | madeleine carroll | marlene dietrich | rita hayworth Page created by: ihuppert5@aol.com Changes last made: 2010