Joan Shawlee | |
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Born |
Forest Hills, New York, U.S. |
March 5, 1926
Died | March 22, 1987 Hollywood, California, U.S. |
(aged 61)
Other names | Joan Fulton |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1945-1986 |
Spouse(s) | Walter Shawlee |
Joan Shawlee (March 5, 1926 – March 22, 1987), also credited as Joan Fulton, was an American film and television actress.
A tall woman (5'9"), she was known for small parts in Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder films. She is probably best remembered for her role as "Sweet Sue" in Some Like It Hot (1959) starring Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis, as well as Lemmon. She appeared as "Sylvia" in The Apartment (1960), and as "Amazon Annie" in Irma la Douce, both of which starred Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. She had a recurring role on TV in The Dick Van Dyke Show as "Pickles Sorrell", She played the lead in The Adventures of Aggie (1956–57), which only ran for one season, and was a regular on Betty Hutton's short-lived series Goldie, and on the 1976-77 crime drama The Feather and Father Gang. She appeared in Billy Wilder's final film Buddy Buddy (1981) starring Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Her final acting appearance was in an episode of Crazy Like a Fox in 1985.
As reported in her obituary in the L.A. Times, she died of cancer, in Hollywood, California, on March 22, 1987, aged 61.