Joyce Ingalls

Ingalls was born on January 14, 1950, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Frederick G. Ingalls, a U.S. Navy commander, and Elaine Wright Ingalls, a relative of the Wright Brothers.{{cite news|title=Joyce Elaine Ingalls Fetty obituary |url=http://poststar.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/joyce-elaine-ingalls-fetty/article_2fbf7905-6085-5c73-8870-1ff35736fae6.html |work=The Post-Star |date=2015-08-10 |access-date=2015-09-02}} Ingalls had five sisters and three brothers.

Ingalls' mother died in 1959. Her father remarried JoAnn DiSandro, who raised Joyce Ingalls and her four siblings, as well as four more children of Frederick and JoAnn.

In 1966, Ingalls won Co-Ed Magazine's{{cite news|last1=DeLora|first1=Myrtle|title=Whitehall|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4105182/the_troy_record/|agency=The Troy Record|date=October 27, 1966|location=New York, Troy|page=42|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = January 22, 2016}} {{Open access}} national High School Cover Girl contest when she was 16.{{cite news|last1=Bishop|first1=Linda|title=Dreams Come True|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4105045/the_times/|agency=The Times|date=July 6, 1966|location=California, San Mateo|page=45|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = January 22, 2016}} {{Open access}} The contest led to a contract with the Ford Modeling Agency. She appeared in numerous fashion magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, and Vogue. Ingalls was the face of a 1973 advertising campaign for Yardley of London, a British cosmetics company. She also appeared in print ads for Black Velvet whisky, Breck Shampoo (as one of the Breck Girls), and Clairol.

Ingalls was best known for her role as Bunchie, a prostitute who comforts Sylvester Stallone's character, Cosmo Carboni, in the 1978 drama, Paradise Alley. She also appeared in The Man Who Would Not Die{{cite news|title=(advertisement)|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4108432/the_leavenworth_times/|agency=The Leavenworth Times|date=April 14, 1976|location=Kansas, Leavenworth|page=15|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = January 23, 2016}} {{Open access}} in 1975, Deadly Force in 1983, and Lethal Weapon 4 in 1998.

In 1978, Ingalls was named when Sylvester Stallone was sued for divorce by his wife, Sasha, "who claimed the star of Rocky used community funds for a vacation for himself and actress Joyce Ingalls."{{cite news|title=(photo caption)|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4108904/the_ottawa_journal/|agency=The Ottawa Journal|date=March 18, 1978|location=Canada, Ottawa, Ontario|page=16|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = January 23, 2016}} {{Open access}} Earlier that year, gossip columnist Liz Smith had written: "Sylvester ("Sly") Stallone and his Paradise Valley co-star Joyce Ingalls are what one might call a real hot item. Mrs. Stallone knows all about it and is definitely not happy."{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Liz|title=Quoth a Lady: We Talk Too Much|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4108988/colorado_springs_gazettetelegraph/|agency=Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph|date=February 20, 1978|location=Colorado, Colorado Springs|page=18|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = January 23, 2016}} {{Open access}}

A 1978 newspaper article reported that Ingalls "has been married once previously but doesn't like to discuss that part of her past."{{cite news|last1=Scott|first1=Vernon|title=Leading Lady Takes Role Off-Screen|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4109236/the_galveston_daily_news/|agency=The Galveston Daily News|date=March 23, 1978|location=Texas, Galveston|page=40|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = January 23, 2016}} {{Open access}}

In 1984, Ingalls married Darrell Fetty, a screenwriter and actor, at the Little Brown Church in Studio City, California. They had two sons.{{cite news|last1=McRady|first1=Rachel|title=Joyce Ingalls Dead: Actress, Model, Wife of Producer Darrell Fetty Dies at Age 65|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/joyce-ingalls-dead-actress-model-wife-darrell-fetty-dies-2015208|access-date=23 January 2016|agency=Us Weekly|date=August 20, 2015}} Ingalls and Fetty oversaw their Little Brown Church's homeless ministry. They also operated the church's food pantry, now called the Darrell & Joyce Fetty Food Pantry, for nearly 25 years. The food pantry is estimated to have served thousands of families.

Ingalls died of an undisclosed illness at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, on August 5, 2015, at the age of 65. She is survived by her husband, Darrell Fetty; two sons, her stepmother, the former JoAnn DiSandro; and eight siblings. Her father Frederick died in 1996.

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