Born in Milford, Pennsylvania to Orlando West Joslyn Jr. and Gertrude Meyer, Allyn Joslyn honed his craft under Professor E. C. Durfee at Chestnut Hill Academy before pursuing further studies at Columbia University, and by 1921 he had joined the Greenwich Village Follies. A breakthrough arrived with his praised turn as Robert Law in the 1935 Broadway comedy Boy Meets Girl, which attracted the atte…
