Joan Perry born Elizabeth Rosiland Miller, was an American

United States

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 film actress, model, and singer.

In the early 1930s, Perry worked as a model in New York City

New York City

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. In 1935 she went to Hollywood and was signed under contract to Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

 and during her time there she co-starred opposite such actors as Ralph Bellamy

Ralph Bellamy

Ralph Bellamy was an American actor whose career spanned sixty-two years.-Early life:He was born Ralph Rexford Bellamy in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lilla Louise , a native of Canada, and Charles Rexford Bellamy. He ran away from home when he was fifteen and managed to get into a road show...

, Lew Ayres

Lew Ayres

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, and Melvyn Douglas

Melvyn Douglas

Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg , better known as Melvyn Douglas, was an American actor.Coming to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man , Douglas later transitioned into more mature and fatherly roles as in his Academy Award-winning performances in Hud...

. Following her leave from Columbia in the early 1940s she went to Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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 and she starred in an array of films; some of which were International Squadron (1941) and Nine Lives Are Not Enough

Nine Lives Are Not Enough

Nine Lives Are Not Enough is a 1941 film directed by A. Edward Sutherland. It stars Ronald Reagan and Joan Perry.-Cast:*Ronald Reagan as Matt Sawyer*Joan Perry as Jane Abbott*James Gleason as Sgt. Sam Daniels...

(1941) with Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

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. She was married three times; first to Harry Cohn

Harry Cohn

Harry Cohn was the American president and production director of Columbia Pictures.-Career:Cohn was born to a working-class German-Jewish family in New York City. In later years, he appears to have disparaged his heritage...

 from 1941 until his death in 1958, followed by Harry Karl, and Laurence Harvey. She died from emphysema in September 1996 at age 85.

Filmography

• Heir to Trouble (1935)
• Case of the Missing Man (1935)
• Gallant Defender
  Gallant Defender
  Gallant Defender is a 1935 American western film directed by David Selman.-Cast:*Charles Starrett ... Johnny Flagg*Joan Perry ... Barbara McGrail*Harry Woods ... Barr Munro*Edward LeSaint ... Harvey Campbell*Jack Clifford ... Sheriff Luther...
  
  (1935)
• Dangerous Intrigue (1936)
• The Mysterious Avenger (1936)
• Shakedown (1936)
• Meet Nero Wolfe
  Meet Nero Wolfe
  Meet Nero Wolfe is a 1936 mystery film based on the 1934 novel Fer-de-Lance, written by Rex Stout. Set in New York, the story introduced the detective genius Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin...
  
  (1936)
• Blackmailer (1936)
• Counterfeit Lady (1936)
• The Devil is Driving (1937)
• Start Cheering
  Start Cheering
  Start Cheering is a musical motion picture starring Jimmy Durante, Walter Connolly and Joan Perry. It is best remember today for a cameo appearance by The Three Stooges as Campus Firemen, who were Columbia Pictures' short subject headliners at the time...
  
  (1938)
• Blind Alley (1939)
• Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
• The Lone Wolfe Strikes (1940)
• Maisie Was a Lady
  Maisie Was a Lady
  Maisie Was a Lady is the fourth in a series of films starring Ann Sothern as good-hearted showgirl Maisie Ravier.-Plot:When wealthy drunkard Robert "Bob" Rawlston loses Maisie her carnival sideshow job as the Headless Woman, he offers her the use of his car to get to town. However, she is pulled...
  
  (1940)
• Strange Alibi (1940)
• Bullets for O'Hara (1940)
• International Squadron (1941)
• Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941)

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