Joan Staley Profile

Joan Staley

	(Joan Lynette McConchie)
20 May 40	is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to James Kenneth McConchie and his wife Jean Alexander McConchie, nee Fraser
c. 43	starts taking violin lessons when three years old
?	joins Carl Moldiam’s Baby Orchestra in Los Angeles
?	becomes a member of Peter Meremblum’s Junior Symphony at age five and plays the Hollywood Bowl at age six
48	makes her film debut in The Emperor Waltz at age 8
	spends her high school days with her father in France, where he is stationed
?	enrolls briefly at Chapman College in Orange, California
?	marries Chuck Staley and relocates with him to Memphis
?	sings and does backups on some records for Sam Phillips
?	returns to Los Angeles and works as a secretary by day and does theater work at night, performing at the Music Box Theatre, on the corner of Hollywood and La Brea
58	Lawrence Schiller, an acquaintance of hers and a photographer with Life magazine, asks her about posing for Playboy
November 58	is Playboy’s "Playmate of the Month"
	meets Hugh Hefner at a cocktail party in Los Angeles after her photos are published
9 April 59	her daughter Sherrye D. is born in Los Angeles
Early 60s	divorces Staley
61	her part in Breakfast at Tiffany’s ends mainly on the cutting room floor
	is signed to a contract by MGM
62	is voted a Hollywood Deb Star
February 65	is Watusiing with Sammy Jackson, Kathy Nolan’s love interest
66	is doing a song for Gunpoint, filmed with Audie Murphy in St.George, Utah
	after the filming of The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, she is injured in a horseback riding accident
14 January 67	marries Frederic Dale Sheets, a former MCA Universal executive, in Los Angeles. He's 37; she's 26. He brings three children, Linda, Patti, and Vickie, from his marriage to singer Anita Gordon
69	her husband leaves Universal and forms International Ventures Incorporated, a theatrical personal management company
?	their children Stephanie, Greg, and Dina are born
?	becomes national director of Fight Inflation Together (FIT) for two years
24 November 19	dies at age 79 of heart failure at the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, California. In addition to her husband, survivors include children Dina, Linda, Victoria, Patricia, Sherrye, Stephanie and Greg, 10 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren.

Sources: Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema by Tom Lisanti, Tom Weaver, Movie Life, www.Ancestry.com
Recommended Books: Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema by Tom Lisanti
Links: Filmography Batman TV Tribute Site: Joan Staley