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Biography
BLP sources|date=February 2010Infobox person| name = Joey Heatherton| image = Joey Heatherton 27 December 1965.jpg| imagesize =| caption = Heatherton dancing on the USS Ticonderoga , December 27, 1965| birth_name = Davenie Johanna Heatherton| birth_date = birth date and age|1944|09|14|mf=y| birth_place = Rockville Centre, New York , U.S.| death_date =| death_place =| othername =| occupation = Actress, singer| yearsactive = 1959& ndash;present| spouse = marriage| Lance Rentzel |1969|1972| website = Davenie Johanna "Joey" Heatherton (born September 14, 1944) is an American actress, dancer, and singer.
Early life
Heatherton was raised in Rockville Centre, New York , a suburb of New York City. There she attended St. Agnes Cathedral|St. Agnes Cathedral School , a Catholic Church|Catholic grade and high school. Her father Ray Heatherton was a Broadway theatre|Broadway star ( Babes in Arms ) and television pioneer.
Career
Heatherton began her career as a child actress, appearing in 1959 as a member of the ensemble and an understudy in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music , and received her first sustained national exposure that same year as a semi-regular on The Perry Como Show , playing an exuberant teenager with a perpetual crush on Perry Como . She also appeared extensively on The Dean Martin Show ; Dean Martin invited her to perform numerous times on the show, starting with the premiere episode of September 16, 1965. From June to September 1968, along with Frank Sinatra, Jr. , she co-hosted Martin's summer substitute musical comedy hour, Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers . She also made multiple appearances on 1960s television shows such as The Andy Williams Show , The Hollywood Palace , The Ed Sullivan Show , and This Is Tom Jones . She first appeared on television on her father's show The Merry Mailman , a popular children's show in New York.
In May 1969, she appeared on The Tonight Show , where she energetically coached Johnny Carson on the finer points of dancing " The Frug ." During that era, she also appeared in Bob Hope 's USO troupe between 1965 and 1977, entertaining the GI (term)|GI s with her singing, dancing and provocative outfits. Excerpts from the USO tours were televised as part of Hope's long-running series of NBC monthly specials, culminating in the top-rated Christmas shows, where Heatherton's segments were regularly featured.
Acting
Throughout the 1960s, Heatherton interspersed her variety show appearances with dramatic turns in three theatrical films and on numerous episodes of series such as Route 66 (TV series)|Route 66 (playing a 15-year-old temptress in the November 18, 1960 teleplay), Mr. Novak , The Virginian (TV series)|The Virginian , Channing (TV series)|Channing , Arrest and Trial , The Nurses (CBS TV series)|The Nurses , and Breaking Point (1963 TV series)|Breaking Point .
Heatherton also appeared in the movies Twilight of Honor (1963), Where Love Has Gone (film)|Where Love Has Gone , (1964) and My Blood Runs Cold (1965), alongside veteran actors such as Claude Rains , Bette Davis and Susan Hayward . In Twilight of Honor , her film debut, she played the young wife of an accused murderer ( Academy Awards|Oscar -nominee Nick Adams (actor)|Nick Adams ).
The only one of the three films to be made in color, 1964s Where Love Has Gone , was a big-budget melodrama based on Harold Robbins ' roman à clef about the scandalous Lana Turner & ndash; Cheryl Crane & ndash; Johnny Stompanato manslaughter case, with Heatherton playing the daughter of the Turner character ( Susan Hayward ).
Finally, she appeared in Blood , the second of three 1965 horror-suspense films directed by William Conrad , alongside Troy Donohue .
1970s& ndash;present
In 1972, Heatherton had a #24 pop hit with the 1957 Ferlin Husky song " Gone (Ferlin Husky song)|Gone ". Her album, The Joey Heatherton Album , did not do as well on the charts as her single.
By the 1970s, Heatherton's career was slowing down, but she was still popular enough to do a series of TV ads for RC Cola and Serta Mattresses . A brief high point came in July 1975 when she headlined Joey & Dad , a four-week Sunday night summer replacement series for Cher 's 1975-76 variety show in which she performed alongside her own father. Each episode would involve Ray Heatherton waxing nostalgic over life with his daughter, while rooting through his attic.
In subsequent years, Heatherton performed in Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas and acted in a few scattered TV shows and films, including the 1972 Bluebeard (1972 film)| Bluebeard (with Richard Burton in the Bluebeard|title role ). Additionally, she played the starring role as Xaviera Hollander in 1977's Watergate scandal|Watergate -inspired The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington .
In April 1997, Heatherton appeared nude in an issue of Playboy . Her most recent acting role was in the 2002 Damon Packard film Reflections of Evil .
Personal life
In 1969, Heatherton married Lance Rentzel , a wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys .cite web|url= http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20094517,00.html|title=Arrested for Drugs and Assault, Perennial Starlet Joey Heatherton Finally Crashes to Earth|date=1986-09-15|publisher=people.com|accessdate=11 August 2011 In November 1970, Rentzel was arrested for indecent exposure|exposing himself to a 10-year-old girl.cite book|last=Teitelbaum|first=Stanley H. |title=Sports Heroes, Fallen Idols |year=2008|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=0-8032-1644-0|page=222 They separated shortly afterward and divorced in 1972.
Persondata| NAME = Heatherton, Joey | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Heatherton, Davenie Johanna | SHORT DESCRIPTION = actress, singer | DATE OF BIRTH = September 14, 1944 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Rockville Centre, New York , U.S. | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Heatherton, Joey Category:Actors from New York Category:American child actors Category:American dancers Category:American female singers Category:American film actors Category:American pop singers Category:American television actors Category:American television personalities Category:Musicians from New York Category:People from Nassau County, New York Category:1944 births Category:Living people
