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Joyce Taylor

{{Short description|American actress (1937–2024)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Joyce Taylor

| image = 1964 Press Photo Actress and Singer Joyce Taylor.jpg

| caption = Taylor in 1964

| birth_name = Joyce Crowder

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|09|14|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Taylorville, Illinois, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2024|1||1937|09|14|mf=yes}}

| death_place = Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.

| other_names = Joyce Bradley

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1953–1971

| spouse = Edward Bellinson
({{abbr|m.|married}} 1961; {{abbr|div.|divorced}} 19??)
Richard Hinnant
({{abbr|m.|married}} 19??)

}}

Joyce Taylor (born Joyce Crowder; September 14, 1937 – January 2024) was an American actress. She starred in feature films and television primarily during the 1950s and 1960s.

Early life

Born in Taylorville, Illinois on September 14, 1937,{{cite news | url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8230660/the-decatur-daily-review/ | title= Taylorville Native Sees Hollywood Dream Come True | work= The Decatur Daily | date= June 25, 1961 }} she based her stage name on her hometown. A coal miner's daughter, she attended public schools in Taylorville and was the top baton twirler at Taylorville High School. Her performance in a school talent show led to a recording contract.{{cite news|title=Taylorville Native Joyce Taylor Sees Hollywood Dream Come True|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8230660/the_decatur_daily_review/|work=The Decatur Daily Review|date=June 25, 1961|location=Illinois, Decatur|page=42|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = January 7, 2017}} {{Open access}}

Career

File:Joyce Taylor in Lock Up (The Harry Connors Story).jpg (1959)]]

Taylor sang in amateur shows at age 10 and turned professional at age 15, signing with Mercury Records (billed as Joyce Bradley). When she was 16, she was singing at Chez Paree nightclub in Chicago and other similar venues.

She was under contract to Howard Hughes-owned RKO Pictures in the 1950s, but he only allowed her to act in one movie (a small part in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt in 1956).{{cite news | url= http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/472/Joyce+Taylor/index.html | title= Joyce Taylor profile | work=Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen}} When her seven-year contract ended, she became a regular on the science-fiction adventure TV series Men into Space (1959–1960){{cite book|last1=Roman|first1=James W.|title=From Daytime to Primetime: The History of American Television Programs|date=2005|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313319723|page=146|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h8AqrjoCueUC&dq=%22Joyce+Taylor%22+actress&pg=PA146|accessdate=January 7, 2017|language=en}} as well as acted in many other TV shows and several feature films.{{cn|date=January 2022}}

Personal life and death

Taylor married stockbroker Edward Bellinson.{{cite news|title=Movie Starring Joyce Taylor Set at Beckley|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8229969/beckley_postherald_the_raleigh_register/|work=Beckley Post-Herald The Raleigh Register|date=September 2, 1961|location=West Virginia, Beckley|page=13|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = January 7, 2017}} {{Open access}} She later married Richard Hinnant. Taylor died in Fort Collins, Colorado in January 2024, at the age of 87.{{cite web |title=Joyce Taylor Hinnant |url=https://www.forevermissed.com/joyce-taylorhinnant/about |website=Forever Missed |access-date=3 November 2024}}

Selected filmography

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  • {{IMDb name|0852674}}

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Category:1937 births

Category:2024 deaths

Category:20th-century American actresses

Category:21st-century American women

Category:Actresses from Illinois

Category:American film actresses

Category:American television actresses

Category:RKO Pictures contract players

Category:People from Taylorville, Illinois