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Patricia Joy Harmon[1] or Joy Patricia Harmon (born May 1, 1940)[2] is an American baker and former actress.

Joy Harmon
Harmon with Roger Smith in an episode of Mister Roberts, 1965.
Born	Joy Patricia Harmon (1940-05-01) May 1, 1940 (age 82) Flushing, New York, U.S.
Years active	1956–1973
Known for	Car washing girl in Cool Hand Luke
Spouse	Jeff Gourson ​ (m. 1968⁠–⁠2001)​
Children	3
Website	http://www.auntjoyscakes.com

Early years

The daughter of Homer Harmon, Joy Patricia Harmon was born in Jackson Heights, New York,[1] or Flushing, New York. She and her family moved to Connecticut in 1946. She was a Miss Connecticut,[2]^[when?] She tied for fourth runner-up in the 1957 competition for Miss Connecticut.[3][4]

When she was three years old, Harmon modeled clothes in Fox Movietone News newsreels.[1] She skipped two grades in elementary school and graduated from Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut.[1]

Career

Harmon's stage debut came in Pajama Tops at the Klein Memorial Theatre in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She toured the United States in stock company productions, including The Marriage-Go-Round, The Solid Gold Cadillac, The Tender Trap, The Importance of Being Ernest, and Susan Slept Here.[1] On Broadway, Harmon portrayed Betty Phillips in Make a Million (1958).[5] She also appeared in an off-Broadway production of Susan Slept Here (1961).[6]

Harmon was a contestant during the last season of Groucho Marx's television program You Bet Your Life (titled The Groucho Show during its last season), and later a regular on Marx's program Tell It to Groucho (credited as "Patty Harmon"). She guest-starred on several 1960s TV series, including Gidget, Batman, and The Monkees. She appeared in a cameo role as blonde Ardice in the Jack Lemmon comedy Under the Yum Yum Tree in 1963. She had a role as Tony Dow's girlfriend in the 1965–66 television soap opera Never Too Young.

Harmon's stand-out acting roles include the 30-foot-tall (9 m) Merrie in Village of the Giants (1965, in which she captures normal-sized Johnny Crawford and suspends him from her bikini top), and the car-washing Lucille in Cool Hand Luke (1967) with her purportedly 41–22–36 measurements.[2]

Personal life

Harmon was married to film editor and producer Jeff Gourson from 1968 to 2001, raising three children. For a time, a son worked at Walt Disney Studios. She later established a bakery, Aunt Joy's Cakes, in Burbank, California.[7]

Filmography

References

External links

• Joy Harmon at IMDb
• Sullivan, Steve (1998-06-15). Bombshells: Glamour Girls of a Lifetime. Macmillan. pp. 43–. ISBN 9781429956222. Retrieved May 6, 2012.

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[de] Joy Harmon

Joy Patricia Harmon (* 1. Mai 1940 in Flushing, New York, Vereinigte Staaten) ist eine US-amerikanische Bäckerin und ehemalige Schauspielerin.

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