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Joey Heatherton
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Born: Sep 14, 1944
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Joey Heatherton was born in Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York, USA.
She was the daughter of veteran song-and-dance man Ray Heatherton (1909-1997), Joey trained in ballet as a youngster and started her career off as a teen performer on the New York stage as one of the children in "The Sound of Music." She also began recording about that same time. She went on to gain national exposure as a regular on Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall portraying an innocent young coed who developed a Crush on the star. The gimmick worked and Joey eventually parlayed this success into an acting career.
The payoff worked. She started to appear in such TV dramas as "The Virginian," "The Nurses" and "Route 66." For a time she showed extreme promise playing troubled, vulnerable, often neurotic young girls opposite cinema's established or up-and-coming talent of the day, including the films Twilight of Honor with Richard Chamberlain and Nick Adams, Where Love Has Gone starring Bette Davis and Susan Hayward, and My Blood Runs Cold opposite Troy Donahue. The promise was short-lived, however, but since music was deemed her forte anyway, Joey wisely refocused on her musical gifts and went on to project a mod, sulky Lolita image fully decked out in mini-skirts and go-go boots. A much better singer than Ann-Margret and an equally good dancer, she appealed to the male masses in droves with her high-octane dance moves and saucy glances as huge selling points. By the late 60s the talented, all-round entertainer had developed into a solid Vegas showroom and TV variety favorite. On the plus side as well, she had soldiers swooning on both land and sea as she toured with Bob Hope on his USO tours. She proved quite fetching in the TV movie The Ballad of Andy Crocker with Lee Majors, and was part of the eclectic casting in _Of Mice and Men (1970) (TV)_ that toplined George Segal and Nicol Williamson.
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Joey Heatherton Nude and Sexy
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