TV Guide (April 30, 1954)

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is all extrovert, including her meas¬ urements. She stands 5'7" and weighs 130 heroically proportioned pounds. What has she got that 679 other girls in Hollywood haven’t got? Thrives On Versatility “Versatility,” she said. “Shucks, I’ve been at this racket since I was 14. I’ve studied, boy. I even studied ballet for six solid months but I couldn’t stand the bleeding feet. I studied every¬ thing—acting, singing, diction, psy¬ chology.” She isn’t kidding about that psy¬ chology bit. She has a wonderfully disarming way of putting herself on the producer’s level, treating him like an old friend and making him like it. Movie fans with a memory may re¬ call a young thing out of Universal some six or seven years back by name of Joan Fulton. That was Shawlee. She spent most of her time in the publicity department posing for cheesecake pictures but she did man¬ age to appear in a couple of Abbott and Costello pictures. Signed For TV Film Then she met a Los Angeles print¬ ing executive named Walter Shawlee, married him and forgot her career for four years to start bringing up Walter, Jr. A year ago Abbott and Costello suddenly thought of her and asked her to do a couple of their TV films with them. Why not, she fig¬ ured. Then Martin and Lewis saw her in one of the films and used her as Jerry’s mother in one of his Lord Fauntleroy sketches. Hope saw that one and used her in the spy sketch. Since then she’s appeared on more than 20 TV shows, both live and film, playing everything from comedy to serious drama; and six movies, includ¬ ing “From Here to Eternity,” “Con¬ quest of Space” and “Casanova’s Big She clowns as well: Martin and Lewis ^ used Joan in this Comedy Hour sketch . v