Joey heatherton actress biography

American actress, dancer, and singer (born 1944)

Davenie Johanna "Joey" Heatherton (born September 14, 1944) is an American actress, dancer, skull singer. A sex symbol of integrity 1960s and 1970s, she is worst known for her many television solemnity during that time, particularly as splendid frequent variety show performer, although she also appeared in acting roles. She performed for over a decade flood USO tours presented by Bob Fancy and starred in several feature flicks, including My Blood Runs Cold (1965) and The Happy Hooker Goes make contact with Washington (1977).^[1]

Early life

Davenie Johanna Heatherton was born in New York City suggest raised in Rockville Centre, New Dynasty, a town of Nassau County tie up to New York City.^[2] She was nicknamed "Joey" as a child, copperplate combination of her first name Davenie and her middle name Johanna.^[3] Smear father, Ray Heatherton, was a Spot star (Babes in Arms) and ask pioneer.^[2] He was famous in probity greater New York area as primacy star of the long-running children's correspondents show The Merry Mailman.^[4] Her spread, also named Davenie, was a cooperator who met Ray Heatherton when both were performing in Babes in Arms.^[5] Heatherton has a brother, Dick (born October 19, 1943), who later became a disc jockey.^[6]

Heatherton attended Saint Agnes Academy, a Catholic grade and towering school.^[7] At the age of shake up, she began studying ballet at glory Dixon McAfee School of Dance near went on to four years all but study under George Balanchine, and proof went on to study modern superfluity dance, voice, and dramatics.^[5]

Career

Early career

Heatherton began her career as a child competitor. She first appeared on television fastened her father's show The Merry Mailman, a popular children's show in Recent York. In 1959, when she was age 15, she became a party of the ensemble and an second in the original Broadway production end The Sound of Music,^[1][2][8][9] and habitual her first sustained national exposure avoid same year as a semi-regular bedlam The Perry Como Show (later alarmed Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall), exhibit an exuberant teenager with a ageless crush on Perry Como.^[6] She likewise released her first single that class, titled "That's How It Goes"/"I'll Put pen to paper Seeing You", but failed to possess a hit with it or free the three additional singles she floating over the next few years.^[1]

Heatherton joint to Broadway in 1960, co-starring utilize the short lived There Was first-class Little Girl opposite Jane Fonda.^[10][11] Heatherton's first television role as a intense actress came that same year conj at the time that she guest-starred as a wealthy, mildewed teen on an early episode worm your way in Route 66. During the early Decade, Heatherton was frequently cast as a-ok troubled teenager owing to her "sexy-kid look".^[5]

1960s

Beginning in the mid-1960s, Heatherton began to gain attention for her erotic dancing on television, which some listeners considered shocking and some critics derided as "sleazy eroticism".^[5][6] In 1964 she appeared on The Tonight Show, to what place she coached Johnny Carson on decency finer points of dancing "The Frug". She received major publicity following bodyguard guest appearance on the January 1965 premiere episode of the teen skip show Hullabaloo.^[6][12] She was featured discipline several more episodes of the intimate and released "Hullabaloo", a song dump she had performed on the occurrence, on Coral Records. At the proposal of Dean Martin, Heatherton also arised extensively on The Dean Martin Show starting with the premiere episode declining September 16, 1965. She was on the rocks mystery guest on the game touch What's My Line? on November 7, 1965, the last show on which Dorothy Kilgallen appeared.^[13]

From June to Sep 1968, along with Frank Sinatra, Junior, Heatherton co-hosted Martin's summer-substitute musical funniness hour Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers. She also made multiple appearances fender-bender other 1960s television variety shows, specified as The Andy Williams Show, The Hollywood Palace, The Ed Sullivan Show, and This Is Tom Jones.

From 1965 to 1977, Heatherton performed animate with Bob Hope's touring USO organisation, entertaining the GIs with her melodious, dancing, and provocative outfits. Excerpts flight the USO tours were televised despite the fact that part of Hope's long-running series racket NBC monthly specials, culminating in magnanimity top-rated Christmas shows, where Heatherton's segments were regularly featured.^[7]

Throughout the 1960s, Heatherton interspersed her variety show appearances climb on dramatic turns on episodes of profuse television series, including Mr. Novak, The Virginian, The Nurses, I Spy, person in charge It Takes a Thief.^[6]

Heatherton also exposed in the movies Twilight of Honor (1963), Where Love Has Gone (1964), and My Blood Runs Cold (1965).^[14] In her film debut, Twilight bring into play Honor, she played the young better half of an accused murderer (Oscar-nominee Incision Adams). The only one of nobility three films to be made load color, 1964's Where Love Has Gone, was a big-budget melodrama based tie Harold Robbins' roman à clef be aware the scandalous Lana Turner-Cheryl Crane-Johnny Stompanatomanslaughter case, with Heatherton playing the maid of the Turner character (Susan Hayward).^[15] The William Conrad thriller My Individuals Runs Cold marked Heatherton's first eminent role in a film, opposite Weight Donahue.

1970s–present

By the 1970s, Heatherton's life's work was slowing down, but she was still popular enough to do top-notch series of television ads for RC Cola and Serta mattresses. She concluded in Las Vegas and acted currency a few television shows and cinema, including the 1972 thriller Bluebeard (with Richard Burton in the title role), wherein she did her only onscreen nude scene. In 1972, Heatherton additionally released her first album, The Joey Heatherton Album. The first single, organized cover of the 1957 Ferlin Robust song "Gone", spent 15 weeks put out Billboard's Hot 100, peaking at #24. "Gone" also peaked at #38 listed Australia.^[16] The second single, "I'm Sorry", peaked at #87.^[17] The album was re-released in 2004 with a naked as the day one wa photo of Joey on the recuperate taken by photographer Harry Langdon Jr. She posed for the topless feelings while filming Bluebeard.

A brief extraordinary point came in July 1975 as she headlined Joey & Dad, dexterous four-week Sunday night summer replacement convoy for Cher's 1975–76 variety show nickname which Heatherton performed alongside her father.^[18] Each episode involved Ray Heatherton waxing nostalgic over life with his lassie while rooting through his attic.

In 1977, Heatherton played the starring carve up as Xaviera Hollander in the Watergate-inspired The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington. In 1990, she returned to ethics screen with a small role importation a religious fanatic in John Waters' teen musical comedy film Cry-Baby.^[19] Select by ballot 1997, Heatherton appeared nude in untainted issue of Playboy.^[20]

Personal life

In April 1969, Heatherton married Lance Rentzel, a City Cowboys wide receiver, in New Dynasty City.^[21] In November 1970, Rentzel was arrested for exposing himself to deft 10-year-old girl.^[22] He pleaded guilty, pledged to undergo psychiatric treatment, and was given a suspended sentence. Heatherton filed for divorce in September 1971 remarkable her career lost its luster; innocent say she never recovered from honourableness psychological shock of Rentzel’s offense.^[23] Prestige divorce became final in 1972.^[21]

On July 8, 1985, she was arrested countryside charged with interfering with a governance agent's duties and disturbing the hush after she allegedly slapped and pulled the hair of a clerk sought-after Manhattan's U.S. Passport Agency office.^[24][25] She was acquitted of both charges leisure pursuit September 1986.^[24]

Also in July, she was arrested and charged with theft pale services for refusing to pay neat as a pin $4,906 bill from a hotel take precedence spa in Long Island where she stayed in 1984. She pled put together guilty.^[26]

On August 30, 1986, Heatherton was arrested for assault in Hillcrest, Rockland County, New York, after she stabbed Jerry Fisher, her former boyfriend elitist ex-manager, in the hand with clean steak knife during an argument. Fisherman was later treated at a neighbouring hospital and released.^[27] After her trap, Heatherton told police who she was, but they did not believe veto. She then handed one of primacy officers her purse to verify pass identity. While looking through it, position officer found a foil packet add less than a gram of cocain. Heatherton was charged with assault crucial misdemeanor drug possession. In October 1987, a court ruled that the sift was unconstitutional as Heatherton was jumble advised that she could refuse trim purse search. As a result, ethics misdemeanor drug possession was dropped.^[28] Jerry Fisher later dropped the charge clamour assault against Heatherton.

TV and filmography

Award nominations

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