Joan Taylor Profile

Joan Taylor

	(Rose Mary Emma)
18 August 28	is born in Geneva, Illinois, to propman Joseph Emma, from Sicily, and vaudeville dancer Amelia Berky, from Austria
?	her family moves to Lake Forest, Illinois, where her father manages the Deerpath Theatre
?	entertains with a USO troupe in a military hospital during WWII
46	heads to California to pursue a performing career and enrolls at the Pasadena Playhouse
Early 50s	is a “Golden Circle Girl” at Paramount
	finds the right man, writer-producer Leonard Freeman, at the Pasadena Community Playhouse
May 52	will star in Paramount’s upcoming War Bonnet, a.k.a. The Savage
53	marries Freeman
15 August 54	her daughter, Robin, is born in Los Angeles
55	misses her daughter’s first birthday party due to the shooting schedule at the Pentagon, Washington D.C., for Earth Versus the Flying Saucers
57	isn’t happy with director Reginald LeBorg while filming War Drums
December 63	has her last acting job on a television show and retires to raise her children
20 January 74	becomes the widow of Freeman, who dies at age 53 in California following heart surgery
18 June 76	marries producer-director Walter E. Grauman in Los Angeles. He's 54; she 47.
17 October 80	divorces Grauman in Los Angeles
4 March 12	dies of natural causes at age 82 in Santa Monica. She is survived by three daughters, two brothers and six grandchildren.

Sources: Tom Weaver, Screen Sirens Scream! by Paul Parla and Charles P. Mitchell, TV Guide 62, Western Women by Boyd Magers and Michael G. Fitzgerald, Modern Screen, www.Ancestry.com
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