Joan Staley


Woot woot! She also played Shame's sidekick, Oakie Annie, in two episodes of Batman TV show.

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A quick check of her bio on Wikipedia says she was Miss November 1958 in Playboy.

After watching that underwater scene, I... uh... can see why.

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That Wikipedia article was certainly badly done. It says she had roles in movies like The Emperor Waltz, The Robe, Brigadoon and My Sister Eileen -- made in 1948, 1953, 1954 and 1955 respectively -- as well as on TV shows in the mid-50s. Yet in the next sentence it says she had her "first role in film" in a 1958 episode of Perry Mason. Apart from the fact that the article had just detailed numerous roles she'd had in films and TV for over a decade beforehand, Perry Mason was a television show, not a film.

But assuming the rest of the article is basically accurate, it sounds like she's had a nice life. Twenty grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren?! And she's only 74 at this date. But the notion of this sexy blond cave girl being a great-grandmother is a bit disconcerting!

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Joan Staley was quite fetching as sweet, yet feisty cave girl Deena.

I am the Duke of IMDb bio writers! I am A#1!

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