| Show i'K ‘i i lI for and about the younger set Pe Salt fake ffilwne i Sunday August 4 1957 Joi to 1 Behold Salt Lake's Joi blonde gentlemen prefer Is full of beautiful girls who in favor of up given SHOW but Joi romance may have set some Lansing kind of a record when she did it She was six yea i s old at the time Joi who was born Joy Loveland in Salt Lake City and lived here for —the first six of her 22 puts It this way: yeais“When mother moved to Hollywood she took me with her of course —and I kicked and screamed ail the way I was desperately in love “His name was Ted Elliott— I think he lived on 32nd South and he was about my age which was six I was sure I'd never recover” Perhaps it was all for the best though The move to Hollywood led to a career in show business which has helped to dull the pangs of parting Besides she returned to Salt Lake City when she was 13 and saw Ted again It was all over “I was taller than he was” she says Ted Elliott has probably grown by now to consideiably more than Joi’s 5 feet 6 inches but his delay in doing this blighted a romance with one of television’s most provocative young ladies Ah well He can now devote his life to good works while Joi devotes her life to appearing in business ifi television i WHO aspires to serious acting and is till ready meanwhile with a series of femme fatale roles in which she plays a tall been set for an important sexy blonde has justCBS-Tin the Perry Mason series upcoming part blonde a tall sexy She plays But to get back to history Ten years after fate her dramatic departure from Salt Lake Cityfound and Ben Medford an enterprising agent her at a party given by showman Earl Carrollto The following day Medford Introduced her and the result was a seven-yea- r Metro Goldwyn-Maye- r contract without even the formality of a screen test Under the tutelage of Metro’s drama coaches she learned the rudiments of acting and in swift succession found herself cast in such top budget films as “Easter Parade” (Judy Garland Fred Astaire) and "Neptune’s Daughter” (Esther Williams) A year and a half after Joining the ' Culver City studio she checked off the lot and did a series of films for Hal Roach bearing the ipnprobable title of “Sady and Sally” A layout on the show appeared on the cover of Life magazine in 1950 If you look closely you’ll recognise Joi She’s the tall sexy blonde years dur- FOLLOWED a hiatus of and Fuller Lance married she time which ing meditated on the dubious bliss of the housewife’s lot Enough being enough she emerged from her apquiescent stage in 1954 and in swift succession of Bliss” “A Theatre’s Smattering on Ford peared the Bob Cummings series (she played Shirley Swanson arunning part) Four Star Theatre with Charles Boyer the Jackie Cooper Show Ozzie and Harriet (she was virtually a feature in this one) Youth opposite Orson Welles in "Fountain of and the feminine lead in "Climax!” loapjjeaylq sqd films JOI I Salt t Lake City Sunday! August 4 1957 Jol Lansing born In Salt lake City will be seen this fail In Perry Mason series ” as "The Brave One” (she played the only female in the cast) opposite Michael Ray and “Hot Cars” which starred John Brownfield in is her first love Joi would be e the permanent role of settle for willing and spends a fair share of her spare time in taking vocal lessons from Harriet Lee Some day she'd like to appear in a Broadway or Holly wood musical She describes her voice as low sexy and blue Her favorite male singer is Frank Sinatra She’s also partial to Lena Horne While acting to can-teus- 1 x Joi hasn't been entirely uprooted from Salt Lake City though She returns every summer for a couple of weeks or so visiting her grand father and grandmother Mr and Mrs A R Shupe and her uncle Raymond Shupe of Ogden Joi’s a very healthy girl She doesn’t smoke nor drink nor go to night clubs which makes her a very good date for bachelors But prospective suitors should be warned to keep their deportment above reproach Joi works out every day lifting weights A VERY healthy girl budget-consciou- 3 |
