Joy Harmon - wikipedia Joy Harmon This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. ( March 2012 ) Joy Harmon Harmon with Roger Smith in an episode of Mister Roberts, 1965. Joy Patricia Harmon ( 1940 - 05 - 01 ) May 1, 1940 ( age 77 ) Flushing, New York, U.S. Years active 1956 -- 1973 Known for Car washing girl in Cool Hand Luke Spouse ( s ) Jeff Gourson ( 1968 -- 2001 ) ; 3 children Awards Miss Connecticut ( runner - up ) Website http://www.auntjoyscakes.com Joy Patricia Harmon ( born May 1, 1940 ) is a baker and former American actress. Contents 1 Career 2 Aunt Joy 's Cakes 3 Selected filmography 4 Selected television roles 5 References 6 External links Career Joy Patricia Harmon was born in Flushing, New York. She and her family moved to Connecticut in 1946. A runner - up for Miss Connecticut, Harmon was a contestant during the last season of Groucho Marx 's television program You Bet Your Life ( titled The Groucho Show during its last season ), and later a regular on Marx 's program Tell It to Groucho ( credited as `` Patty Harmon '' ). She guest - starred on several 1960s TV series, including Gidget, Batman, and The Monkees. She appeared in a cameo role as blonde Ardice in the Jack Lemmon comedy Under the Yum Yum Tree in 1963. She had a role as Tony Dow 's girlfriend in the 1965 -- 66 television soap opera, Never Too Young. Harmon 's best - remembered acting roles are as the thirty - foot - tall ( 9 m ) Merrie in Village of the Giants ( 1965 ; where she captures normal - sized Johnny Crawford and suspends him from her bikini top ), and as the car - washing `` Lucille '' in Cool Hand Luke ( 1967 ) and her ( 41 -- 22 -- 36 ) measurements Aunt Joy 's Cakes Harmon was married to Hollywood TV and film producer and film editor Jeff Gourson from 1968 to 2001, raising three children. In 1973, she left Hollywood to devote her time to her lifelong love of baking, as she started her own company, Aunt Joy 's Cakes, a bakery located in Burbank, California. Selected filmography The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit ( 1956 ) Let 's Rock ( 1958 ) Mad Dog Coll ( 1961 ) Under the Yum Yum Tree ( 1963 ) Roustabout ( 1964 ) Young Dillinger ( 1965 ) The Loved One ( 1965 ) Village of the Giants ( 1965 ) A Guide for the Married Man ( 1967 ) Cool Hand Luke ( 1967 ) Angel in My Pocket ( 1969 ) Selected television roles The Beverly Hillbillies ( 1963 ) My Three Sons ( 1964 ) Burke 's Law ( 1964 - 65 ) Gidget ( 1965 ) Batman ( 1966 ) Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. ( 1966 ) Bewitched ( 1966 ) The Rounders ( 1966 ) Occasional Wife ( 1967 ) That Girl ( 1967 ) The Monkees ( 2 appearances ; 1967 ) Love, American Style ( 1972 ) The Odd Couple ( 1972 ) Thicker Than Water ( 1973 ) References Jump up ^ Sullivan, Steve ( 1998 - 06 - 15 ). Bombshells : Glamour Girls of a Lifetime. Macmillan. pp. 43 --. ISBN 9781429956222. Retrieved May 6, 2012. Jump up ^ Listanti, Tom ( 2008 ). Glamor Girls of Sixties Hollywood : Seventy - Five Profiles. McFarland & Co., Inc. p. 87. ISBN 978 - 0 - 7864 - 3172 - 4. Retrieved June 29, 2017. ^ Jump up to : `` Joy Harmon Movies ''. Blockbuster. Retrieved April 14, 2013. Jump up ^ Listanti, Tom ( 2008 ). Glamor Girls of Sixties Hollywood : Seventy - Five Profiles. McFarland & Co., Inc. p. 88. ISBN 978 - 0 - 7864 - 3172 - 4. Retrieved June 29, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Aunt Joy 's Cakes ''. Yelp.com. Retrieved June 28, 2015. External links `` Aunt Joy 's Cakes : About Us ''. Aunt Joy 's Cakes. Archived from the original on August 20, 2013. Joy Harmon on IMDb Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joy_Harmon&oldid=803760108 '' Categories : American film actresses American television actresses 1940 births Living people American bakers American beauty pageant contestants Actresses from New York City Actresses from Connecticut Hidden categories : BLP articles lacking sources from March 2012 All BLP articles lacking sources Articles with hCards Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Edit links This page was last edited on 4 October 2017, at 13 : 08. About Wikipedia

Question: who was the girl in cool hand luke washing the car
Answer: Joy Harmon