Joan Weldon is an American

United States

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 film and television actress. She began her career singing in the San Francisco Grand Opera Company chorus. Later she became a contract actress with Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

 where she remained until her contract ended in 1954. Her most prominent film was the cult thriller Them!

She resumed her career as a singer in road company productions including The Music Man

The Music Man

The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naive townsfolk before skipping town with...

and Oklahoma!

Oklahoma!

Oklahoma! is the first musical written by composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance...

. Weldon retired in 1980.

Filmography

• Home Before Dark (1958)
• Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958)
• Maverick (1958)
• Colt .45 (1958)
• Have Gun - Will Travel (1958)
• Day of the Bad Man (1958)
• Perry Mason
  Perry Mason (TV series)
  Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner...
  
  (1957)
• Cheyenne (1957)
• Gunsight Ridge (1957)
• Lux Video Theatre (1954–1956)
• The Millionaire (1955)
• Deep in My Heart (1954)
• Them! (1954)
• Riding Shotgun (1954)
• The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)
• The Command (1954)
• The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)
• So This Is Love (1953)
• The System (1953)

External links

• Joan Weldon at Yahoo Movies