Joan Marion

{{Short description|Australian actress (1908–2001)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}

{{Use Australian English|date=July 2011}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Joan Marion

| image = Actress_Joan_Marion.jpeg

| caption = from Spotlight directory, 1939

| birthname = Joan Marion Nicholls

| birth_date = {{birth date|1908|09|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

| death_date = {{death date and age|2001|11|05|1908|09|28|df=y}}

| death_place = Sheringham, Norfolk, England

| alma mater = RADA

| spouse = {{Marriage|Louis Everette de Rouet|1940|1972|end=died}}

| children = 1

}}

Joan Marion Nicholls (28 September 1908{{spaced ndash}}5 November 2001), known professionally as Joan Marion, was an Australian-born stage, film and television actress.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1361882/Joan-Marion.html|title=Joan Marion}}{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/20530|title=Joan Marion|access-date=14 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023195722/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/20530|archive-date=23 October 2012|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/joan-marion-p45515|title=Joan Marion - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie}} Her family moved to Britain when she was three, and at eighteen she attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where she adopted the name Joan Marion. Subsequently, a busy stage star, she made the record books in 1934, when she appeared in two West End shows simultaneously, Men in White with Ralph Richardson and Without Witness. She also famously turned down Jack Warner and a Hollywood career, describing him as "a horrid little man." Marion continued in the theatre and British films until her marriage to wine expert Louis Everette de Rouet. With the birth of her daughter she spent many years travelling the world with her family.