Joan Blackman
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Joan Blackman (born May 18, 1938 in San Francisco, California) is an American actress.
Blackman made her screen acting debut as a guest performer on a 1957 television series and then in a motion picture in 1959. She had a significant role in two Elvis Presley films: 1961's Blue Hawaii and the following year in Kid Galahad. She also appeared with Jerry Lewis in 1960's Visit to a Small Planet and with Dean Martin in Career (1959). She returned to motion pictures in Max Baer, Jr.'s Macon County Line.
During the 1965-66 season, Blackman was part of the regular cast of the television prime time soap opera, Peyton Place. On that show, she played "Marion Fowler," the wife to the District Attorney.
She and her ex-husband, Joby Baker, met while they were each filming an Elvis Presley movie.
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