Born: Joyce Renee Brown on April 6, 1929 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Died: August 7, 1972 (age 43) in Santa Monica, California, USA
Joi Lansing
We first saw her, nationally, on TV as one of the models for Bob Cummings on LOVE THAT BOB, the one where Cummings came on with huge flash bulb camera in hand and, pointed right at us, said, "Hold it, I think you're gonna like this picture!".
JOI played Shirley Swanson, by far the sexiest and most erotic of his models, gaining a Hollywood reputation as a real "looker" for TV/movies. Later, she often appeared on the Beverly Hillbillies as the hot looking wife of Lester Flatt, he of Flatt and Scruggs bluegrass band notoriety. Flatt and Scruggs did the theme song for Beverly Hillbillies, the Ballad Of Jed Clampett, but it was Lester's TV wife, Joi Lansing, that got the guys rapt attention.
She went on to appearances in B movies and other TV shows, always, but always looking super, just stepped out of a beauty salon! Sadly, her end came too soon so that we never got to see her age into the middle and later years.
Joi Lansing.................