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Joyce Van Patten
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Actor Born: March 9, 1934 in New York City, NY Biography:Blonde, loquacious American actress "Joyce Van Patten" was being sent out for modelling assignments at the age of eight months. Her stagestruck mother advertised Van Patten and older brother "Dick" as "the Van Patten Kids," ready and willing to step into any juvenile roles available. At age 5, Joyce made her Broadway debut in "Love's Old Sweet Song", which also featured "Dick". Joyce was nine years old when she won the Donaldson award for her performance in the stage drama Tomorrow the World. She interrupted her stage career for a brief marriage at age 16 (her equally brief second marriage was to actor "Martin Balsam"), then at 20 played her first adult role in the Broadway comedy Desk Set. Her first film assignment was an unbilled bit in the Manhattan-lensed "Fourteen Hours" (1951), and her first regular TV stint was on the CBS soap opera "As the World Turns" in the late '50s. Joyce has since been... Full Biography
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