
Acting
Lovely Joan Staley was born Joan McConchie on May 20, 1940 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and started taking violin lessons by the time she was three years old. Living in Los Angeles, her prodigious talent was obvious. She soon joined a baby orchestra in Los Angeles and, within a few years, became a Junior Symphony performer at age six. She also made her unbilled specialty debut on film as a child violinist in The Emperor Waltz (1948), starring Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine.
Her father's business had the family traveling throughout Europe growing up but she later relocated to California and briefl…

A Golightly Gathering
as Self

Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob
as Ginny

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
as Alma Parker

Gunpoint
as Uvalde / Bonnie Mitchell

Kissin' Cousins
as Jonesy (uncredited)

Roustabout
as Marge

Kisses for My President
as Blonde (uncredited)

A New Kind of Love
as Danish Stewardess

Johnny Cool
as Suzy Blakely

Cape Fear
as Waitress
The Ladies Man
1961