Joy Dunstan
{{short description|Australian actress}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2011}}
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| occupation = Film and television actress
| years_active = 1976–1985
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Joy Dunstan (born 20 July 1951) is an Australian retired film and television actress. She is best remembered as the teenage star of Chris Löfvén's 1976 film Oz, a modern-day remake of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, with Graham Matters, Bruce Spence, Gary Waddell, and Robin Ramsay.Reade, Eric. History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film, 1896–1978. Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1979. (pg. 260) {{ISBN|0-8386-3082-0}}Murray, Scott and Peter Beilby, eds. The New Australian Cinema. London: Elm Tree Books, 1980. (pg. 89, 106) {{ISBN|0-241-10439-4}}Stratton, David. The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1980. (pg. 234) {{ISBN|0-207-14146-0}}Dermody, Susan and Elizabeth Jacka. The Screening of Australia Vol. 2: Anatomy of a National Cinema. Sydney: Currency Press, 1988. (pg. 115) {{ISBN|0-86819-187-6}}Young, R.G. The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film: Ali Baba to Zombies. New York: Applause Books, 2000. (pg. 658) {{ISBN|1-55783-269-2}}{{cite web |title=Joy Dunstan |url=http://australianscreen.com.au/people/Joy_Dunstan/ |work=National Film & Sound Archive |publisher=AustralianScreen.com |trans-title=|year=2009 |accessdate=9 August 2009}}{{cite web|title=Oz |url=http://www.afc.gov.au/filmsandawards/filmdbsearch.aspx?view=title&title=OZAAAA |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070527235517/http://www.afc.gov.au/filmsandawards/filmdbsearch.aspx?view=title&title=OZAAAA |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 May 2007 |work=AFC Searchable Film Database |publisher=Screen Australia |year=2009 |accessdate=9 August 2009 }}
Career
The then 25-year-old former school teacher and part-time cabaret dancer had been working in a musical comedy act at Melbourne's Flying Trapeze Cafe when she was discovered by director Chris Löfvén. Löfvén, in offering the part to Dunstan, had said to her "Come with me and I'll make you a star". Dunstan replied "I don't believe it but yes". She had no prior experience in film or photographic modeling prior to the film.Wiles, Jo. "The film man did make Joy a star". The Age. 30 July 1976
She also had minor roles in the 1983 television film A Descant for Gossips,{{cite web |title=A Descant For Gossips (1983) |url=http://www.users.on.net/~fsteiny/descantforgossips_s1983.html |publisher=OZTV Credits |trans-title=|year=2004 |accessdate=9 August 2009}} and in the cult soap opera Prisoner, in which she portrayed two characters, Penny Seymour in 1982,{{cite web |title=PCBH Characters, Section 27 |url=http://www.wwwentworth.co.uk/C27.htm#56 |publisher=WWWentworth.co.uk |trans-title=|date=11 August 2001 |accessdate=9 August 2009}} and Marnie Taylor in 1985.{{cite web |title=PCBH Characters, Section 22 |url=http://www.wwwentworth.co.uk/C22.htm#311 |publisher=WWWentworth.co.uk |trans-title=|date=3 March 2001 |accessdate=9 August 2009}} She also had a very minor role in a 1985 episode of Neighbours, which was her last performance, with her reportedly "having grown disillusioned with the business", and she retired soon after.
According to a Film Buffs Podcast interview on 21 November 2006, Dunstan then lived in the United Kingdom. During that interview, songwriter and musician Gary Young discussed his memories of working with Dunstan on the film. Young also claimed that following the film, his band, the Rockin' Emus, released their sole album with one of the songs he had written, Beautiful Joy, having been about the actress.{{cite web |author=Three Triple R |title=21 October 2006 Film Buffs Podcast |url=http://odeo.com/episodes/23291736-21-10-06-Film-Buffs-Podcast |work=Film Buffs Podcast |publisher=Odeo.com |date=21 October 2006 |accessdate=9 August 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}
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External links
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Category:Australian film actresses