Joyce Coad
{{short description|American actress}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Joyce Coad
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1917|4|14}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1987|5|3|1917|4|14}}
| death_place = March Air Force Base, Riverside County, California, U.S.
| yearsactive = 1926–1933
| occupation = Actress}}
Joyce Coad (April 14, 1917 – May 3, 1987) was an American child actress in motion pictures.
Child prodigy
Coad's foster father was Raymond E. Coad.{{cite news |title=Riches sought for Joyce Coad |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44545971/joyce_coad/ |accessdate=February 16, 2020 |work=Los Angeles Evening Express |date=April 22, 1931 |location=California, Los Angeles |page=17|via = Newspapers.com}} By the age of five she became a reader of children's stories on radio station KHJ in Los Angeles.{{cite news |title=Tune In On These Tonight |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44539675// |accessdate=February 16, 2020 |work=The Pomona Progress Bulletin |date=October 1, 1924 |location=California, Pomona |page=9|via = Newspapers.com}}
Film actress
Coad moved to Los Angeles at the same time in 1926 that Metro Goldwyn Mayer was searching for a "million dollar baby". She won the contest conducted by the Los Angeles Evening Express.{{cite news |title=Winners in Evening Express Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Baby Contest |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44542116/los_angeles_evening_express/ |accessdate=February 16, 2020 |work=Los Angeles Evening Express |date=March 8, 1926 |location=California, Los Angeles |page=11|via = Newspapers.com}} She also received a contract to perform on radio station KNX in Hollywood. Her programs included recitations, songs, and stories.{{cite news |title=Joyce Coad retains her love for broadcasting on radio |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44544367/joyce_coad/ |accessdate=February 16, 2020 |work=Los Angeles Evening Express |date=August 1, 1929 |location=California, Los Angeles |page=8|via = Newspapers.com}}
She performed the role of Pearl in The Scarlet Letter (1926), a film which featured Lillian Gish. Louis B. Mayer chose Victor Seastrom to direct the movie. Drums of Love (1928), directed by D.W. Griffith, is set in the middle of the nineteenth century in South America. Coad appeared in the role of the little sister in a screen production which starred Lionel Barrymore, Don Alvarado, and Tully Marshall.
For some reason, there was a break in her films from 1928 to 1931, after which the number of her film appearances declined. She played the role of Elsa The German Milkmaid in Captured! (1933). In June 1937 Coad was cast in The Deerslayer, which was being filmed by Standard Pictures. She was twenty years old.
Death
Coad died at March Air Force Base, Riverside County, California in 1987, aged 70, from undisclosed causes.{{Citation needed |date=April 2024}}
Select filmography
| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;"
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes |
| rowspan="2"| 1926
| Little Anita | |
| The Scarlet Letter
| Pearl | |
| rowspan="4"| 1927
| Little Kitty | |
| [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018174/ Mother]
| Betty Ellis | |
| The Magic Garden
| Amaryllis Minton, as a child | |
| One Woman to Another
| The Niece | |
| 1928
| The Little Sister | |
| rowspan="3"| 1931
| Blood and Thunder | | (uncredited) |
| Devotion
| Elsie | (uncredited) |
| X Marks the Spot
| Gloria | |
| 1933
| Elsa the German Milkmaid |
| 1934
| [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026001/ Woman Unafraid] | Evelyn |
References
{{Reflist}}
- {{cite news |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |title=New Voices On Air |date=October 19, 1924 |page=B8}}
- {{cite news |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |title=Child Prodigy Given Place in Picture Cast |date=November 29, 1925 |page=C29}}
- {{cite news |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |title=Film to Start |date=June 7, 1937 |page=A16}}
- {{cite news |publisher= Middletown Daily Times-Press |title=Orphan Adopted in Wyoming Turns Out To Be Screens' Million Dollar Child |date=May 8, 1926 |page=10}}
- {{cite news |newspaper=New York Times |title=A Nathaniel Hawthorne Classic |date=August 10, 1926 |page=19}}
- {{cite news |newspaper=New York Times |title=Screen Notes |date=November 21, 1926 |page=X5}}
- {{cite news |newspaper=New York Times |title=Paolo and Francesca |date=January 25, 1928 |page=20}}
- {{cite news |publisher=Syracuse Herald |title=At Syracuse Theaters |date=January 20, 1932 |page=10}}
External links
{{Portal|Biography}}
- [http://www.silentsaregolden.com/photos2/joycecoadphoto.html Joyce Coad] photo from silentsaregolden.com, retrieved 2-13-08.
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Category:American child actresses
Category:American film actresses
Category:American silent film actresses
Category:Actresses from Wyoming
Category:20th-century American actresses
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