Joanne Dru
Joan Letitia LaCock
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Emerging from Logan, West Virginia, she relocated to New York at eighteen, first working as a model before being selected by Al Jolson for the Broadway revue Hold On to Your Hats. A talent scout later brought her to Hollywood, where she debuted in Abie's Irish Rose (1946) and quickly became a fixture in mid-century cinema, especially westerns such as Howard Hawks’s Red River (1948) and John Ford’s…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
