Jacqueline Fontaine
{{short description|American actress and singer (1927–1995)}}
{{infobox person
| name = Jacqueline Fontaine
| image = Jacqueline Fontaine.jpg
| imagesize =
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| birth_name = Joyce Romeo
| birth_date = August 14, 1927
| birth_place = Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S.
| death_date = August 1, 1995 (aged 67)
| death_place = Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
| occupation = actress, singer
| yearsactive = 1950s
}}
Jacqueline Fontaine (August 14, 1927 – August 1, 1995){{cite news |title='Outlaw Gal' of movies to sing in Zephyr Room |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-shreveport-journal/134019391/ |access-date=24 October 2023 |work=The Shreveport Journal |date=27 November 1952}}{{cite news |title=Former Joyce Romeo a hit in the Far West |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/kenosha-news/134019648/ |access-date=24 October 2023 |work=Kenosha News |date=1 December 1954}} was an American actress and singer who was mostly active in the 1950s.{{cite journal |last1=Daniel |first1=Blum |title=Skipalong Rosenbloom |journal=Screen World |date=1969 |volume=3 |page=133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ke4USFx2TWEC&dq=Jacqueline+Fontaine&pg=PA133 |access-date=16 January 2023 |publisher=Biblo & Tannen Publishers |language=en}}{{cite magazine |title=Night Club Reviews |magazine=Billboard |date=4 November 1944 |page=26 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eBoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Jacqueline+Fontaine&pg=PT25 |access-date=16 January 2023 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |language=en}}
Biography
Fontaine was born Joyce Elaine Romeo in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to an Italian-born musician father and Canadian-born mother.{{cite web |title=1930 United States Federal Census |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/59219433:6224?tid=&pid=&queryId=c9e0b7b5c49f0349da211bf21c8ecc65&_phsrc=ddL25730&_phstart=successSource |website=Ancestry |access-date=24 October 2023}}
Fontaine married John Battaghlia.{{cite news |title=Joyce Romeo is 'Discovered' by vacationing producer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/kenosha-news/134020164/ |access-date=24 October 2023 |work=Kenosha News |date=24 October 1951}} She died on August 1, 1995, at the age of 67 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.{{Cite web |title=Jacqueline Fontaine - The Private Life and Times of Jacqueline Fontaine. Jacqueline Fontaine Pictures. |url=http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/606/Jacqueline+Fontaine/index.html |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com}}
Filmography
- Dilemma of Two Angels (1948)
- The Daltons' Women (1950){{cite book |last1=Atkinson |first1=Barry |title=Six-Gun Law - Westerns of the 1950s: The Classic Years |publisher=Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=79ppEAAAQBAJ&dq=Jacqueline+Fontaine&pg=PT33 |access-date=16 January 2023 |language=en}} as singer
- Skipalong Rosenbloom (1951) as Miss Caroline Witherspoon
- The Strip (1951) as Frieda
- Outlaw Women (1952) as Ellen Larabee
- The Country Girl (1954) as lounge singer
- Untamed Mistress (1956) as Velda
- The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956) as buxom date
- Born to Be Loved (1959) as dame
- The Ladies Man (1961) as working girl
- Murderers' Row (1966)
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967){{cite book |last1=Cowie |first1=Peter |last2=Elley |first2=Derek |title=World Filmography: 1967 |date=1977 |publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |isbn=978-0-498-01565-6 |page=578 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jp7ayTLX1D8C&dq=Jacqueline+Fontaine&pg=PA578 |access-date=16 January 2023 |language=en}} as singer
- Bilitis (1977) as head mistress
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0284812}}
- [http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/606/Jacqueline+Fontaine/index.html Jacqueline Fontaine Profile]
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Category:American television actresses
Category:People from Kenosha, Wisconsin