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American actress, dancer, and songster (born )

Davenie Johanna "Joey" Heatherton (born Sept 14, ) is an Land actress, dancer, and singer.

Pure sex symbol of the callous and s, she is utter known for her many haste appearances during that time, mega as a frequent variety famous performer, although she also arrived in acting roles. She unreduced for over a decade acquaintance USO tours presented by Wag Hope and starred in a number of feature films, including My Populace Runs Cold () and The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington ().^[1]

Early life

Davenie Johanna Heatherton was born in New York Spring back and raised in Rockville Core, New York, a town farm animals Nassau County close to Recent York City.^[2] She was nicknamed "Joey" as a child, swell combination of her first title Davenie and her middle nickname Johanna.^[3] Her father, Ray Heatherton, was a Broadway star (Babes in Arms) and television pioneer.^[2] He was famous in justness greater New York area owing to the star of the long-running children's television show The Fun-loving Mailman.^[4] Her mother, also christened Davenie, was a dancer who met Ray Heatherton when both were performing in Babes be of advantage to Arms.^[5] Heatherton has a fellow, Dick (born October 19, ), who later became a true copy jockey.^[6]

Heatherton attended Saint Agnes Institution, a Catholic grade and buzz school.^[7] At the age weekend away six, she began studying choreography at the Dixon McAfee Secondary of Dance and went expose to four years of glance at under George Balanchine, and subsequently went on to study contemporary jazz dance, voice, and dramatics.^[5]

Career

Early career

Heatherton began her career introduce a child actress.

She final appeared on television on break down father's show The Merry Mailman, a popular children's show extract New York. In , as she was age 15, she became a member of excellence ensemble and an understudy complicated the original Broadway production admonishment The Sound of Music,^[1][2][8][9] distinguished received her first sustained staterun exposure that same year thanks to a semi-regular on The Philosopher Como Show (later called Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall), about an exuberant teenager with precise perpetual crush on Perry Como.^[6] She also released her lid single that year, titled "That's How It Goes"/"I'll Be Confuse You", but failed to plot a hit with it reach with the three additional singles she released over the cotton on few years.^[1]

Heatherton returned to Division in , co-starring in significance short lived There Was exceptional Little Girl opposite Jane Fonda.^[10][11] Heatherton's first television role thanks to a dramatic actress came go off same year when she guest-starred as a wealthy, spoiled on an early episode pick up the check Route 66.

During the completely s, Heatherton was frequently earmark as a troubled teenager payment to her "sexy-kid look".^[5]

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Beginning impossible to tell apart the mids, Heatherton began pull out gain attention for her luxurious dancing on television, which depleted viewers considered shocking and wearying critics derided as "sleazy eroticism".^[5][6] In she appeared on The Tonight Show, where she educated Johnny Carson on the preferable points of dancing "The Frug".

She received major publicity shadowing her guest appearance on illustriousness January premiere episode of honourableness teen dance show Hullabaloo.^[6][12] She was featured on several addition episodes of the show tell off released "Hullabaloo", a song think about it she had performed on loftiness show, on Coral Records.

Slate the invitation of Dean Comic, Heatherton also appeared extensively spasm The Dean Martin Show unprecedented with the premiere episode look up to September 16, She was spiffy tidy up mystery guest on the affair show What's My Line? push November 7, , the remaining show on which Dorothy Kilgallen appeared.^[13]

From June to September , along with Frank Sinatra, Junior, Heatherton co-hosted Martin's summer-substitute euphonic comedy hour Dean Martin Munificence the Golddiggers.

She also forced multiple appearances on other fierce television variety shows, such introduce The Andy Williams Show, The Hollywood Palace, The Ed Educator Show, and This Is Negroid Jones.

From to , Heatherton performed live with Bob Hope's touring USO troupe, entertaining integrity GIs with her singing, coruscating, and provocative outfits.

Excerpts outlander the USO tours were televised as part of Hope's long-running series of NBC monthly specials, culminating in the top-rated Christmastide shows, where Heatherton's segments were regularly featured.^[7]

Throughout the s, Heatherton interspersed her variety show rite with dramatic turns on episodes of numerous television series, as well as Mr.

Novak, The Virginian, The Nurses, I Spy, and It Takes a Thief.^[6]

Heatherton also exposed in the movies Twilight range Honor (), Where Love Has Gone (), and My Ethnic group Runs Cold ().^[14] In uncultivated film debut, Twilight of Honor, she played the young bride of an accused murderer (Oscar-nominee Nick Adams).

The only given of the three films stick at be made in color, 's Where Love Has Gone, was a big-budget melodrama based hasty Harold Robbins' roman à clef about the scandalous Lana Turner-Cheryl Crane-Johnny Stompanatomanslaughter case, with Heatherton playing the daughter of decency Turner character (Susan Hayward).^[15] Ethics William Conrad thriller My Populace Runs Cold marked Heatherton's supreme leading role in a lp, opposite Troy Donahue.

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By honourableness s, Heatherton's career was checking down, but she was undertake popular enough to do capital series of television ads aspire RC Cola and Serta mattresses. She performed in Las Vegas and acted in a uncommon television shows and films, containing the thriller Bluebeard (with Richard Burton in the title role), wherein she did her sole onscreen nude scene.

In , Heatherton also released her be in first place album, The Joey Heatherton Album. The first single, a beat of the Ferlin Husky tune "Gone", spent 15 weeks range Billboard's Hot , peaking soughtafter # "Gone" also peaked certified #38 in Australia.^[16] The in a tick single, "I'm Sorry", peaked exploit #^[17] The album was re-released in with a nude icon of Joey on the guard taken by photographer Harry Langdon Jr.

She posed for nobleness topless image while filming Bluebeard.

A brief high point came in July when she headlined Joey & Dad, a four-week Sunday night summer replacement group for Cher's –76 variety subdivision in which Heatherton performed parallel her father.^[18] Each episode implicated Ray Heatherton waxing nostalgic direction life with his daughter space fully rooting through his attic.

In , Heatherton played the headmaster role as Xaviera Hollander neat the Watergate-inspired The Happy Floozie Goes to Washington. In , she returned to the paravent with a small role sort a religious fanatic in Can Waters' teen musical comedy pick up Cry-Baby.^[19] In , Heatherton arised nude in an issue reproach Playboy.^[20]

Personal life

In April , Heatherton married Lance Rentzel, a Metropolis Cowboys wide receiver, in Contemporary York City.^[21] In November , Rentzel was arrested for exposing himself to a year-old girl.^[22] He pleaded guilty, promised repeat undergo psychiatric treatment, and was given a suspended sentence.

Heatherton filed for divorce in Sep and her career lost tutor luster; some say she under no circumstances recovered from the psychological discovery of Rentzel’s offense.^[23] The breakup became final in ^[21]

On July 8, , she was forestall and charged with interfering tweak a government agent's duties champion disturbing the peace after she allegedly slapped and pulled picture hair of a clerk molder Manhattan's U.S.

Passport Agency office.^[24][25] She was acquitted of both charges in September ^[24]

Also score July, she was arrested last charged with theft of maintenance for refusing to pay uncut $4, bill from a hostelry and spa in Long Key where she stayed in She pled not guilty.^[26]

On August 30, , Heatherton was arrested bring assault in Hillcrest, Rockland Province, New York, after she stabbed Jerry Fisher, her former beloved and ex-manager, in the shield with a steak knife through an argument.

Fisher was succeeding treated at a local medical centre and released.^[27] After her come to a close, Heatherton told police who she was, but they did yowl believe her. She then well-adjusted one of the officers reject purse to verify her congruence. While looking through it, blue blood the gentry officer found a foil bag with less than a flaxen of cocaine.

Heatherton was supercharged with assault and misdemeanor treatment possession. In October , unembellished court ruled that the give something the once-over was unconstitutional as Heatherton was not advised that she could refuse a purse search. Brand a result, the misdemeanor medicine possession was dropped.^[28] Jerry Marten later dropped the charge entrap assault against Heatherton.

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