Joan Gardner was a British actress. She married Zoltán Korda

Zoltán Korda

Zoltan Korda was a Hungarian-born motion picture screenwriter, director and producer.Born Zoltán Kellner, Kellner Zoltán in Hungarian name order, of Jewish heritage in Pusztatúrpásztó, Túrkeve in Hungary , he was the middle brother of filmmakers Alexander and Vincent Korda.Zoltan Korda went to...

 and had a son, David.

Joan was born in Chesham

Chesham

Chesham is a market town in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, England. It is located 11 miles south-east of the county town of Aylesbury. Chesham is also a civil parish designated a town council within Chiltern district. It is situated in the Chess Valley and surrounded by farmland, as well as...

, Bucks

Bucks

Bucks may refer to: Places* Buckinghamshire, England, UK, after which the following are named:* Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA* Bucks Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, USAIn sports:...

, UK. She made her stage debut immediately on leaving school and by age 18 had achieved success there. She was seen by Alexander Korda

Alexander Korda

Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian-born British producer and film director. He was a leading figure in the British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner of British Lion Films, a film distributing company.-Life and career:The elder brother of filmmakers Zoltán Korda and Vincent...

 who signed her to a five year film contract London Film Productions, with Wedding Rehearsal

Wedding Rehearsal

Wedding Rehearsal is a 1932 British romantic comedy film starring Roland Young as a bachelor forced to seek a wife.-Plot:"Reggie" , the carefree Marquis of Buckminster, is happy to serve as best man at his friends' weddings, but loathes the idea of getting married himself...

being her film debut as one of the Roxbury Twins.

Filmography

• Wedding Rehearsal
  Wedding Rehearsal
  Wedding Rehearsal is a 1932 British romantic comedy film starring Roland Young as a bachelor forced to seek a wife.-Plot:"Reggie" , the carefree Marquis of Buckminster, is happy to serve as best man at his friends' weddings, but loathes the idea of getting married himself...
  
  (1932)
• Men of Tomorrow (1932)
• The Man Outside
  The Man Outside (1933 film)
  The Man Outside is a 1933 British crime film directed by George A. Cooper and starring Henry Kendall, Gillian Lind and Joan Gardner. A criminal gang search for stolen diamonds stashed in a country house following a major robbery....
  
  (1933)
• Love at Second Sight (1934)
• The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)
• The Private Life of Don Juan
  The Private Life of Don Juan
  The Private Life of Don Juan is a 1934 British comedy-drama film about the life of an aging Don Juan, based on the 1920 play L'homme à la Rose by Henry Bataille. The movie stars Douglas Fairbanks and Merle Oberon.-Plot:...
  
  (1934)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel
  The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934 film)
  The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1934 adaptation of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the classic adventure novel by Baroness Orczy. It was produced by Alexander Korda, directed by Harold Young and stars Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon, along with Raymond Massey.-Plot:...
  
  (1934)
• Barnacle Bill
  Barnacle Bill (1935 film)
  Barnacle Bill is a 1935 British drama film directed by Harry Hughes and starring Archie Pitt, Joan Gardner and Gus McNaughton. A conflicted sailor tries to balance his family life with his time at sea.-Cast:* Archie Pitt - Bill Harris...
  
  (1935)
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles
  The Man Who Could Work Miracles
  The Man Who Could Work Miracles is a 1936 British fantasy-comedy film. It is a greatly expanded version of H.G. Wells’s story of the same name. It was the final adaptation of one of Wells' works to be produced during his lifetime.-Plot outline:...
  
  (1936)
• Forget Me Not (1936)
• Wings Over Africa
  Wings Over Africa
  Wings Over Africa is a 1936 British adventure film directed by Ladislao Vajda and starring Joan Gardner, Ian Colin, James Harcourt and James Carew...
  
  (1937)
• Dark Journey
  Dark Journey (film)
  Dark Journey is a 1937 British spy film directed by Victor Saville set in the First World War. Its plot concerns two secret agents on opposite sides, played by Conrad Veidt and Vivien Leigh, who fall in love.-Cast:* Conrad Veidt as Baron Karl von Marwitz...
  
  (1937)
• The Rebel Son
  The Rebel Son
  The Rebel Son, The Barbarian and the Lady or The Rebel Son of Taras Bulba was a 1938 British film, notable as the first film appearance of Patricia Roc. It is a re-working by Alexander Korda of Granowski's 1935 French film adaptation of the Russian novel Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol, set in the...
  
  (1938)
• The Challenge
  The Challenge (1938 film)
  The Challenge is a British drama film directed by Milton Rosmer which recreates the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 by Edward Whymper....
  
  (1938)

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