Joan Taylor is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 18 august 1929 at Geneva (USA)
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Birth name Rose Marie EmmaNationality USABirth 18 august 1929 at Geneva (
USA)
Death 4 march 2012 (at 82 years) at Santa Monica (
USA)
Joan Taylor (August 18, 1929 – March 4, 2012) was an American television and film actress.
Biography
Taylor was born Rose Marie Emma in Geneva, Illinois. Her father Joseph Emma was from Sicily and became the manager of the Deerpath movie theatre in Lake Forest, Illinois where Joan was brought up and a Hollywood prop man. Her mother Amelia Berky was from Austria and became a vaudeville dancer/singer.
Taylor married Leonard Freeman, later the creator of Hawaii Five-O, in 1953. The couple had three daughters. After her contract for The Rifleman ran out, she retired from acting to raise her children. When Freeman died in January 1974 following heart surgery, Taylor started managing Leonard Freeman Productions and the business of Hawaii Five-O under the name Rose Freeman. She went to at least one Hawaii Five-O convention to talk to fans.
With her children older, she found herself writing, including co-author credit for the comedy Fools Rush In starring Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek.
Taylor married TV producer-director Walter Grauman in 1976; the couple divorced in 1980.
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