Joy Harmon
| Joy Harmon | |
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| Born | Joy Patricia Harmon May 1, 1940 Flushing, New York USA |
Joy Patricia Harmon (b. May 1, 1940) is a baker and former American actress.
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[edit] Career
Harmon was born Patricia Joy Harmon in Flushing, New York. A runner-up for Miss Connecticut, the 5 ft 5 in, 41½-22-36 Harmon was a regular on Groucho Marx's television program Tell It to Groucho (credited as 'Patty Harmon'), and also 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, a program geared to teenagers, featuring many popular musical groups of that era.
Harmon's best-remembered acting roles are as the thirty-foot-tall Merrie in the 1965 movie Village of the Giants (where she captures normal-sized Johnny Crawford and suspends him from her bikini top), and as the car-washing girl "Lucille" in 1967's Cool Hand Luke, with Paul Newman.
[edit] Aunt Joy's Cakes
Harmon retired from Hollywood to marry and raise a family. Later, she started her own company, Aunt Joy's Cakes, a bakery located in Burbank, California. She also made the rounds of movie and sci-fi fan conventions, to meet fans and sign autographs.
[edit] Filmography (partial)
- Let's Rock (1958)
- Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963)
- Village of the Giants (1965)
- One Way Wahine (Wahini) (1965)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- Mad Dog Coll
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
- Young Dillinger
[edit] Television (partial)
- The Odd Couple
- Love, American Style
- The Monkees ("The Picture Frame", "Monkees on the Wheel")
- That Girl
- Bewitched
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
- Batman
- Gidget
- Burke's Law
- The Beverly Hillbillies
