Joyce Jameson

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Joyce Jameson (born Joyce Beverly Kingsley, 26 September 1927 – 16 January 1987) was an American actress. She did supporting voices on Amigo and Friends.
== Biography ==
Joyce Jameson, a well-endowed, attractive Chicago native, was typecast as 'broads', 'dames' and dizzy blondes, somewhat in the vein of Barbara Nichols. In private life, she was said to have been the antithesis of her screen personae, a graduate in theatre arts from UCLA, highly intelligent and well read. Jameson began acting in films from 1951, after being "spotted" at the small Cabaret Club by Steve Allen. At that time, she was already a seasoned performer on stage in musical revue, featured playing multiple parts in shows staged by her then-husband and mentor, Billy Barnes, initially at the Cabaret Club, then at the Las Palmas Theatre in Hollywood, and finally on Broadway.
Jameson is most fondly remembered for the first of two "cult" Gothic horror films she made for Roger Corman, loosely based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Tales of Terror (1962) finds her (in story number two, "The Black Cat") as perpetually inebriated Peter Lorre's philandering wife, Annabel, who suffers the ignominious fate of being entombed alive in a wine cellar, alongside paramour Vincent Price. Her performance on the way to that demise—at once funny and tragic—amply demonstrated her ability to hold her own in a leading role opposite such dominant personalities as Lorre and Price. She was quite good, too (and certainly very decorative) in her second outing for Corman, The Comedy of Terrors (1963), albeit in a more typical role as decrepit Boris Karloff's ditzy daughter, Amaryllis Trumbull.
On television, Jameson had a recurring spot on The Andy Griffith Show (1960) and guested in many classic series, including westerns and science fiction, though her forte was almost certainly comedy. Unable to escape her typecasting, she rarely got the roles her acting talent undoubtedly merited, commenting with justifiable bitterness: "Everyone expects to cast me as the dumb or victimized blonde. After they interview me, I can just hear them say, 'Hey! She's intelligent, but what do you do with it?'" (The Pittsburgh Press, 27 July 1958).
Jameson died in Burbank, California
== External Links ==
*Joyce Jameson at the Internet Movie Database
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