Joanne Dru

Actor

About

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Also Known As

Joanne Latitia Lacock, Joanne Marshall

Birth Place

Logan, West Virginia, USA

Born

January 31, 1923

Died

September 10, 1996

Cause of Death

Respiratory Failure Due To Lymphedema

Filmography

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Supersnooper (1981)

September Storm (1960)

The Wild and the Innocent (1959)

The Light in the Forest (1958)

Photos & Videos

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Wagon Master (1950) -- (Movie Clip) They Was Invited Out

Warriors, the (1955) -- (Movie Clip) That Moat Looks Awfully Deep

Family & Companions

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Dick Haymes

Husband

Actor, singer. Married 1941-49; father of her three children.

John Ireland

Husband

Actor. Married 1949-56.

C V Wood Jr

Husband

Executive. Married 1970 for 22 years; was president of Warner Bros Recreational Enterprises Division when he died of lung cancer March 13, 1992 at age 71; purchased London Bridge in 1968 and shipped it to Lake Havasu, AZ.

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Supersnooper (1981)

September Storm (1960)

The Wild and the Innocent (1959)

The Light in the Forest (1958)

Hell on Frisco Bay (1956)

The Warriors (1955)

Lady Joan Holland

3 Ring Circus (1955)

Sincerely Yours (1955)

Siege at Red River (1954)

Southwest Passage (1954)

Day of Triumph (1954)

Duffy of San Quentin (1954)

Forbidden (1953)

Christine [Lawrence Manard]

Thunder Bay (1953)

Hannah Lee (1953)

Return of the Texan (1952)

The Pride of St. Louis (1952)

Patricia Nash Dean

My Pal Gus (1952)

Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951)

Miss [Harriet] Tripp

Vengeance Valley (1951)

711 Ocean Drive (1950)

Wagon Master (1950)

All the King's Men (1950)

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

Olivia Dandridge

Red River (1948)

Abie's Irish Rose (1946)

Rosemary Murphy [Levy]

Cast (Special)

John Wayne Standing Tall (1989)

Adventures of a Model (1958)

Life Events

1946

Film acting debut was "Abie's Irish Rose" acting opposite Bing Crosby

1948

Co-starred in director Howard Hawks' "Red River" as Tess Millay with John Wayne; Hawks spotted her sunning in Palm Springs; changed her last name from Marshall to Dru

1949

Cast in director John Ford's "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" again opposite John Wayne

1949

Appeared in "All the King's Men"

1950

Acted in "Wagonmaster" another John Ford film, co-starring Ben Johnson

1960

Starred in "Guestward Ho!" an ABC-TV sitcom, playing the role of Babs Hooten

Photo Collections

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - Movie Posters

Here are a few original-release American movie posters for She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), starring John Wayne.

Videos

Wagon Master (1950) -- (Movie Clip) They Was Invited Out The Mormon wagon train led by Elder Wiggs (Ward Bond) finds common cause with the members of a bereft medicine show (Joanne Dru, Alan Mowbray, Ruth Clifford), Travis (Ben Johnson) and Sister Ledyard (Jane Darwell) adding opinions, in John Ford's Wagon Master, 1950.

Warriors, the (1955) -- (Movie Clip) That Moat Looks Awfully Deep In charge of Aquitaine now that his father the king is back in England, Edward (Plantagenet) the “Black Prince” (Errol Flynn) receives his widow family friend Lady Joan (Joanne Dru), greeted by Sir Philip (Robert Urquhart), who’ll do as she pleases, in The Warriors, 1955.

Sincerely Yours (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Is Anything Wrong? Considerable sound-editing technique and a big acting moment for leading man Liberace, as pianist "Anthony Warrin," who's suddenly having hearing problems, Joanne Dru, William Demarest and Dorothy Malone his entourage, in Sincerely Yours, 1955.

3 Ring Circus (1954) -- (Movie Clip) The Original Queen Bee Dean Martin is Pete, getting his Army buddy Jerome (Jerry Lewis) out of a scrape at the circus they joined on the G-I Bill, then dazzled by trapeze beauty Saadia (Zsa Zsa Gabor), but also relating to ringmaster-owner Jill (Joanne Dru), who’s not so enamored, in 3 Ring Circus, 1953.

She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Prologue Rousing title sequence and unusually detailed prologue from She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, 1949, the second and only color entry in John Ford's legendary "Cavalry Trilogy," with Ben Johnson as the ubiquitous Trooper Tyree.

She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Picknicking? Lt. Pennell (Harry Carey Jr.) and Miss Dandridge (Joanne Dru) are thwarted in their picnic plans first by Lt. Cohill (John Agar) then by Captain Brittles (John Wayne) in a famous scene from John Ford's She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, 1949.

She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Mary Cutting Brittles An emotional Captain Brittles (John Wayne) visits the grave of his wife and is joined by Miss Dandridge (Joanne Dru) in this famous sound-stage exterior from John Ford's She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, 1949.

Sincerely Yours (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Chopsticks Opening sequence, Joanne Dru is backstage as her boss, Liberace, in his first and only major movie vehicle, as concert pianist "Anthony Warrin," dazzles the crowd then works in his own famous "Chopsticks" schtick, in Sincerely Yours, 1955.

Red River - (Re-issue Trailer) A young cowhand rebels against his rancher stepfather during a perilous cattle drive in Red River (1948), directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift and Joanne Dru.

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - (Original Trailer) An aging Cavalry officer (John Wayne) tries to pervent an Indian war in the last days before his retirement in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949).

Family

Peter Marshall

Brother

TV game-show host. Survived her.

David Moss

Brother

Survived her.

Joanna Santos

Daughter

Survived her.

Barbara Nugent Haymes

Daughter

Died c. 1993.

Companions

Dick Haymes

Husband

Actor, singer. Married 1941-49; father of her three children.

John Ireland

Husband

Actor. Married 1949-56.

C V Wood Jr

Husband

Executive. Married 1970 for 22 years; was president of Warner Bros Recreational Enterprises Division when he died of lung cancer March 13, 1992 at age 71; purchased London Bridge in 1968 and shipped it to Lake Havasu, AZ.

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