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She was the elder sister of Peter Marshall, an actor and singer best known as the original host of the American game show Hollywood Squares. Dru married popular vocalist and actor Dick Haymes in 1941. The couple had three children. Divorced from Haymes in 1949, Dru married Red River and All the King's Men co-star John Ireland less than a month later. The pair divorced in 1957.
Joanne Dru. Actress: Red River. The daughter of a West Virginia druggist, Joanne Dru came to New York in 1940. In New York she worked as a model and was cast by Al Jolson as one of the showgirls in his Broadway play "Hold Onto Your Hats." When the show closed in 1941, she married popular singer Dick Haymes and went with him to Hollywood. Discovered by a talent scout...
Joanne Dru was an American actress who is best remembered for her lead role in one of the greatest western classics of all time, ‘Red River.’ She was born Joan Letitia LaCock in West Virginia, and was a highly talented and beautiful actress. Unfortunately, she became typecast in western movies early on in her career and she could never really shake it off.
Joanne Dru. Actress: Red River. The daughter of a West Virginia druggist, Joanne Dru came to New York in 1940. In New York she worked as a model and was cast by Al Jolson as one of the showgirls in his Broadway play "Hold Onto Your Hats." When the show closed in 1941, she married popular singer Dick Haymes and went with him to Hollywood. Discovered by a talent scout...
Jun 29, 2022 · Born 1922 as Joan Letitia LaCock in Logan, West Virginia, American actress Joanne Dru moved to New York City in 1940 at the age of eighteen and made her first film appearance in Abie’s Irish Rose (1946). Over the next decade, she appeared frequently in films and on television.
Sep 13, 1996 · Joanne Dru, who starred opposite John Wayne in the westerns ''Red River'' and ''She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,'' died on Tuesday at her home in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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In 1948-50 Joanne Dru starred in three of the finest Hollywood westerns and an Academy Award-winning drama. Though never a major star, her work in these films - Howard Hawks's Red River, John Ford ...
Sep 12, 1996 · Joanne Dru, heroine of 1940s and 1950s western films including Howard Hawks’ classic “Red River,” has died. She was 74. Dru died Tuesday night in her Beverly Hills home of respiratory ...
Sep 10, 1996 · Joanne Dru (January 31, 1922 – September 10, 1996) was an American film and television actress, known for such films as Red River and All the King's Men. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanne Dru, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
