JOI LANSING 1965 VOLUPTUOUS BOMBSHELL 2 1/4 CAMERA NEGATIVE PETER BASCH
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:12629017 | Industry: Movies |
| Original/Reproduction: Original | Object Type: camera negative |
| Size: 2.25" |
PETER BASCH PHOTOGRAPHY PROVENANCE: The image offered in this listing comes directly from the personal archived library of PETER BASCH who was a celebrity and artistic nude Playboy photographer during the 1940s through the 1970s. Mr. Basch was a master in glamour and nude fine art photography having authored many books on the subject. In addition to photographer signed and/or stamped photographic images, we are only offering 100% guaranteed original camera images (B&W negatives and color tr...ansparencies) which have been stored away since he produced his first work. Many of the original camera film images (negatives and transparencies) have never been seen before and are one of a kind. Others have been published in the world's top celebrity and men's magazines. The rediscovery of the mastery of Peter Basch will reveal his respect and passion for photographing the world's top celebrities and most beautiful women such as BETTIE PAGE, JAYNE MANSFIELD, GRACE KELLY, SOPHIA LOREN, MARLON BRANDO, JANE FONDA, BRIGITTE BARDOT, ANITA EKBERG, FEDERICO FELLINI, URSULA ANDRESS, and many more. Please see a bio and additional notes on Peter Basch below.DESCRIPTION: A vintage 1965 original 2 1/4" camera negative of blonde bombshell, American exploitation sex symbol, and film star JOI LANSING posing for the launch of her own fitness workout power supplement TIGER'S MILK, taken by photographer PETER BASCH and from his personal archive. A superb portrait of the shapely actress!
Lansing was a major bombshell sex-symbol in films like Touch of Evil and Hot Cars before becoming the "MARILYN MONROE of Television."This is the original negative (film) that was in the camera at the time of the photo shoot and is therefore the only one of its kind in existence. (Please note this listing is for a camera negative, not a photograph. The scan is of its positive view.)RIGHTS: The PETER BASCH FAMILY TRUST is the sole and exclusive copyright owner of the listed image(s). No rights are included in this offering. - SIZE: 2 1/4"- TONE: B&W- CONDITION: Fine, with spotting._______________________________________________________________ CONDITION GRADING Excellent: Very nearly pristine, with no more than trivial flaws. Very Fine: One or two minor defects and only the slightest handling wear. Fine: Minor flaws, with slight handling or surface flaws. Very Good: Slight scuffing, rippling, minor surface impressions. Good: Visibly used with small areas of wear, which may include surface impressions and spotting. Fair: Visibly damaged with extensive wear. SHIPPING TERMS - I ship all items using, what I call, triple protection packing. The photos are inserted into a display bag with a white board, then packed in between thick packaging boards and lastly wrapped with plastic film for weather protection before being placed into the shipping envelope. - The shipping cost for U.S. shipments includes USPS "Delivery Confirmation" tracking. - I am happy to combine multiple wins at no additional cost. Please wait for me to issue the invoice before making payment. PAYMENT TERMS - Please pay within three (3) days of purchase. - I reserve the right to re-list the item(s) if payment is not received within seven (7) days. - California residents - please wait for me to adjust the invoice to include California Sales Tax of 7.5% and 9% for Los Angeles residents. CUSTOMER SERVICE - I will respond to all inquiries within 24 hours. ________________________________________________________________ PETER BASCH (1921-2004) was a German/American glamour photographer who captured thousands of images of the most prominent stars of the 50s and 60s. Peter Basch was born in Berlin, Germany, the only child of Felix Basch and Grete Basch-Freund, both prominent theater and film personalities of the German-speaking world. In 1933 the family came to New York due to fears of rising anti-Jewish sentiment and laws in Germany. The family had US citizenship because Felix's father, Arthur Basch, was a wine trader who lived in San Francisco. After moving back to Germany, Arthur Basch kept his American citizenship, and passed it to his children and, thence, to his grandchildren. When the Basch family arrived in New York in 1933, they opened a restaurant on Central Park South in the Navarro Hotel. The restaurant, Gretel's Viennese, became a hangout for the Austrian expatriate community. Peter Basch had his first job there as a waiter. While in New York, Basch attended the De Witt Clinton High School. The family moved to Los Angeles to assist in Basch's father's career, during which time Basch went to school in England. Upon returning to the United States, Basch joined the Army. He was mobilized in the US Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit, where he worked as a script boy. After the war, he started attending UCLA and started taking photographs of young starlets working with other photographers and film studios. His mother asked him to join her back in New York after she and his father decided that Basch should be a photographer and they obtained a photography studio for their son. For over twenty years, Peter Basch had a successful career as a magazine photographer. He was known for his images of celebrities, artists, dancers, actors, starlets, and glamour-girls in America and Europe. His photos appeared in many major magazines such as Life, Look and Playboy.The Peter Basch Collection includes iconic images of all the major midcentury stars, from Europe and America. These masterful images are a window onto a time we cannot forget, when movie stars stepped out of the studio’s control, and we began to see these larger-than-life performers as full, three-dimensional personalities. Basch’s images capture the heart and spirit of these glamorous performers. Taking pictures in natural light, out in the world, we see these stars as full human beings, not the carefully made-up, studio-approved icons of oldfashioned Hollywood. Basch was able to capture the moments of a human being’s spirit, their mercurial reactions, all the facets that made these magnetic individuals the stars they were. Basch authored and co-authored a number of books containing his photographs including: Candid Photography (1958 with Peter Gowland Basch and Don Ornitz Basch) Peter Basch's Glamour Photography (A Fawcett How-To Book) (1958) Peter Basch photographs beauties of the world (1958) Camera in Rome (1963 with Nathan and Simon Basch) Peter Basch Photographs 100 Famous Beauties (1965) The nude as form & figure (1966) Put a Girl in Your Pocket: The Artful Camera of Peter Basch (1969) Peter Basch's Guide to Figure Photography (1975 with Jack Rey) Thoughts on Peter Basch by his daughter: "My Father, Peter Basch, saw. He looked and he saw. He taught me to see. He taught me to listen and hear. We used to play a game when I was little. He’d say, Michele, look at the street then look at me, what did you see? I would list the cars, red, black, navy; people, fat, tall, thin; children, parents; trees and plants. He would add the detail. A blue car with New York plates, a black car with New Jersey plates. The people were not just tall or small, thin or fat, they wore coats or sweaters, they laughed or were sad. The trees had leaves, were close together, the green was dark, vivid, the sun playing with the shadow. My Father saw. He captured in his mind and on film the unexpected moment in time, the interaction between two people, the look, the thought, the breath that punctuated the decision. My Father was one of the great romantics. He had a true love and appreciation of beauty in its purest form. We would talk about BEAUTY and her differences: natural, Hollywood, young, old and the beauty of communication, interaction, the Beauty of the moment. He recorded the breath in time on film: two ladies in Paris reading the paper, a Dachshund looking around the corner, a chair in front of the Eiffel Tower. My Father saw the thought and seized it for posterity. My Father understood the language light speaks to shadow. He showed me how the sun plays with dark. His favorite moment was at Sunrise when the shadows were long and soft. He saw every hue from white to black and everything in between. He understood the language, taught and published books on Light and Shadow, Form and Figure. I traveled through Europe with my Father. I was his assistant! And proud of it! I was the camera person! Changed the film, made sure the lens was clean, stood in during special poses, helped in the dark room, retouched to refine and perfect. I loved watching him talk and listen. He listened to Jane Fonda, Ursula Andress, Brigit Bardot, Fellini, Mastroiani and so many more. He listened and recorded the answer, the thought, that moment of indecision, realization and Seduction." Film Assignments: 8½ - Fellini Jules et Jim - Truffaut Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune - Vadim The Vice and the Virtue - Vadim Fearless Vampire Killers - Polanski Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - De Sica Une Femme Est Une Femme Goddard Fear - Rosselini Cartouche - De Broca Giant - Stevens Anne Frank - Stevens Guys and Dolls - Mankiewicz Horse Soldiers - Ford Majority of One - Leroy Walk on the Wild Side - Dmytryk Wild in the Streets - Spear Leonidas - Matte The Day the Fish Came Out - Cocayannis The Pawnbroker - Lumet La Verite - Clouzot La Loi Sacree - Pabst Baby Doll - Kazan Summertime - Lean The 13 Most Beautiful Girls - Warhol The Three Sisters - Bogart Francis of Assissi - Curtiz The Swimmer Perry Cape Fear The Man Who Had Power Over Women The Spy With The Cold Nose Winnetou Mata Hari Exhibitions: 2002 Jewish Museum - Vienna Austria “Vom Grossvater vertrieben” 2002 LEICA Gallery, NYC Portrait of Al Hirschfeld 2001 National Portrait Gallery -- London Dame Elizabeth (Taylor) 2001 Fahey-Klein Gallery, LA Group Show/Great Directors 2001 Museum/City of New York, Al Hirschfeld Exhibit 2000 Museum of Modern Art, NY, Brigitte Bardot 1999 Vienna, Austria – “übersee” 1999 Stadt Museum, Munich, Germany “TWEN” exhibit 1997 Museum of the Moving Image – Grace Kelly 1996 Staley Wise Gallery, NY “Shooting Stars” – one man show 1980s Museum of Modern Art, NY, Sophia Loren LA County Museum "Masters of Starlight" (subsequently traveled to Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan) Stadt Museum, Munich, Germany “AKT” (nudes) __________________________________________________________________JOI LANSING BIO
(April 6, 1929 - August 7, 1972) was a model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer.Lansing was born Joyce Rae Brown in Salt Lake City, Utah to Jack Glenn Brown, a shoe salesman, and Virginia Grace Shupe Brown, a housewife. She would later be known as Joyce Wassmansdorff, which was the surname of her stepfather. She began modeling in her teens, and, aged 14, was signed to a contract at MGM. She completed high school on the studio lot.A model and actress, Lansing was often cast in roles similar to those played by her contemporaries, Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren. She was frequently clad in skimpy costumes and bikinis that accentuated her attractive figure, but never posed nude. Lansing practiced yoga for relaxation. A Mormon, she did not drink or smoke.Lansing's film career began in 1948, and, in 1952, she played an uncredited role in MGM's Singin' in the Rain. She received top billing in Hot Cars (1956). In the opening sequence of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958), she appeared as Zita, the dancer who dies at the end of the famous first tracking shot, during which her character exclaims to a border guard, "I keep hearing this ticking noise inside my head!" Lansing had a brief role as an astronaut's girlfriend in the 1958 sci-fi classic Queen of Outer Space. During the 1950s, she starred in short musical films for the Scopitone video-jukebox system. Her songs included "The Web of Love" and "The Silencers".Though Lansing was a rival to Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren, she hardly ever had the lead role in any movie. Most of her early roles were uncredited ones and some of her later roles were uncredited ones also. She is considered a character actress rather than a leading lady.In the 1964, producer Stanley Todd discussed a film project with Lansing tentatively titled Project 22 with location shooting planned in Yugoslavia and George Hamilton and Geraldine Chaplin named to the cast. The movie was never made. Lansing played "Lola" in Marriage on the Rocks (1965) with a cast that included Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, and Dean Martin. Her last film was Bigfoot (1970).Lansing appeared in The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, It's a Great Life, I Love Lucy, Where's Raymond?, Noah's Ark, State Trooper, This Man Dawson, Maverick, and had a recurring role in The Beverly Hillbillies. She is best known perhaps as Shirley Swanson in The Bob Cummings Show or Love That Bob (1956–1959). She appeared in several episodes as a busty model who was the foil for photographer Cummings. The series ran for 173 episodes. She also appeared as the title character in "Superman's Wife, " a 1958 episode of The Adventures of Superman.What was possibly Lansing's best role may ironically have been her least-seen -- as the leading lady in The Fountain of Youth, a Peabody Award-winning unsold television pilot directed by Orson Welles for Desilu in 1956 and broadcast once for the Colgate Theatre two years later. The half-hour film remains available for public viewing at the Paley Center for Media in New York City and Los Angeles.In the 1960–1961 season of the NBC Western Klondike, Lansing appeared as Goldie with Ralph Taeger, James Coburn, and Mari Blanchard. In May 1963, Lansing appeared in Falcon Frolics '63. The broadcast honored the men stationed at the Vandenberg Air Force Base. By 1956, she had appeared in more than 200 television shows.She appeared in five episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies in the role of "Gladys Flatt, " the unlikely glamorous wife of bluegrass musician Lester Flatt.She named Ozzie Nelson as possessing the greatest sex appeal of any actor with whom she worked. The two played a love scene in a Fireside Theater drama. The show was hosted by Jane Wyman. Lansing was sometimes referred to as television's Marilyn Monroe.Lansing broke into night club entertaining in 1965. She had taken up singing during an actors strike in the early 1960s. In May 1965, Lansing cut her first record album. It was composed of a collection of songs written especially for her by composer Jimmie Haskel and actress Stella Stevens. Lansing performed in the Fiesta Room in Las Vegas, Nevada, in July 1966. Featured on the bill were Red Buttons and Jayne Mansfield.In 1972 Joi Lansing died from breast cancer at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California where she had initially been treated surgically for the disease earlier the same year.FilmographyFeatures When a Girl's Beautiful (1947) Linda Be Good (1947) The Counterfeiters (1948) Easter Parade (1948) Julia Misbehaves (1948) Blondie's Secret (1948) Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) Neptune's Daughter (1949) The Girl from Jones Beach (1949) In the Good Old Summertime (1949) On the Riviera (1951) Pier 23 (1951) FBI Girl (1951) Two Tickets to Broadway (1951) Singin' in the Rain (1952) The Merry Widow (1952) The French Line (1954) Son of Sinbad (1955) Finger Man (1955) Hot Cars (1956) Hot Shots (1956) The Brave One (1957) Touch of Evil (1958) Queen of Outer Space (1958) A Hole in the Head (1959) It Started with a Kiss (1959) But Not for Me (1959) The Atomic Submarine (1959) Who Was That Lady? (1960) Marriage on the Rocks (1965) Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967) Bigfoot (1970)Short Subjects Super Cue Men (1937) So You Want to Go to a Nightclub (1954) So You're Taking in a Roomer (1954) So You Want to Be on a Jury (1955) So You Want to Be a V.P. (1955) So You Want to Be a Policeman (1955) So You Think the Grass Is Greener (1956) The Fountain of Youth (1958) Courtesy of Wikipedia
Lansing was a major bombshell sex-symbol in films like Touch of Evil and Hot Cars before becoming the "MARILYN MONROE of Television."This is the original negative (film) that was in the camera at the time of the photo shoot and is therefore the only one of its kind in existence. (Please note this listing is for a camera negative, not a photograph. The scan is of its positive view.)RIGHTS: The PETER BASCH FAMILY TRUST is the sole and exclusive copyright owner of the listed image(s). No rights are included in this offering. - SIZE: 2 1/4"- TONE: B&W- CONDITION: Fine, with spotting._______________________________________________________________ CONDITION GRADING Excellent: Very nearly pristine, with no more than trivial flaws. Very Fine: One or two minor defects and only the slightest handling wear. Fine: Minor flaws, with slight handling or surface flaws. Very Good: Slight scuffing, rippling, minor surface impressions. Good: Visibly used with small areas of wear, which may include surface impressions and spotting. Fair: Visibly damaged with extensive wear. SHIPPING TERMS - I ship all items using, what I call, triple protection packing. The photos are inserted into a display bag with a white board, then packed in between thick packaging boards and lastly wrapped with plastic film for weather protection before being placed into the shipping envelope. - The shipping cost for U.S. shipments includes USPS "Delivery Confirmation" tracking. - I am happy to combine multiple wins at no additional cost. Please wait for me to issue the invoice before making payment. PAYMENT TERMS - Please pay within three (3) days of purchase. - I reserve the right to re-list the item(s) if payment is not received within seven (7) days. - California residents - please wait for me to adjust the invoice to include California Sales Tax of 7.5% and 9% for Los Angeles residents. CUSTOMER SERVICE - I will respond to all inquiries within 24 hours. ________________________________________________________________ PETER BASCH (1921-2004) was a German/American glamour photographer who captured thousands of images of the most prominent stars of the 50s and 60s. Peter Basch was born in Berlin, Germany, the only child of Felix Basch and Grete Basch-Freund, both prominent theater and film personalities of the German-speaking world. In 1933 the family came to New York due to fears of rising anti-Jewish sentiment and laws in Germany. The family had US citizenship because Felix's father, Arthur Basch, was a wine trader who lived in San Francisco. After moving back to Germany, Arthur Basch kept his American citizenship, and passed it to his children and, thence, to his grandchildren. When the Basch family arrived in New York in 1933, they opened a restaurant on Central Park South in the Navarro Hotel. The restaurant, Gretel's Viennese, became a hangout for the Austrian expatriate community. Peter Basch had his first job there as a waiter. While in New York, Basch attended the De Witt Clinton High School. The family moved to Los Angeles to assist in Basch's father's career, during which time Basch went to school in England. Upon returning to the United States, Basch joined the Army. He was mobilized in the US Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit, where he worked as a script boy. After the war, he started attending UCLA and started taking photographs of young starlets working with other photographers and film studios. His mother asked him to join her back in New York after she and his father decided that Basch should be a photographer and they obtained a photography studio for their son. For over twenty years, Peter Basch had a successful career as a magazine photographer. He was known for his images of celebrities, artists, dancers, actors, starlets, and glamour-girls in America and Europe. His photos appeared in many major magazines such as Life, Look and Playboy.The Peter Basch Collection includes iconic images of all the major midcentury stars, from Europe and America. These masterful images are a window onto a time we cannot forget, when movie stars stepped out of the studio’s control, and we began to see these larger-than-life performers as full, three-dimensional personalities. Basch’s images capture the heart and spirit of these glamorous performers. Taking pictures in natural light, out in the world, we see these stars as full human beings, not the carefully made-up, studio-approved icons of oldfashioned Hollywood. Basch was able to capture the moments of a human being’s spirit, their mercurial reactions, all the facets that made these magnetic individuals the stars they were. Basch authored and co-authored a number of books containing his photographs including: Candid Photography (1958 with Peter Gowland Basch and Don Ornitz Basch) Peter Basch's Glamour Photography (A Fawcett How-To Book) (1958) Peter Basch photographs beauties of the world (1958) Camera in Rome (1963 with Nathan and Simon Basch) Peter Basch Photographs 100 Famous Beauties (1965) The nude as form & figure (1966) Put a Girl in Your Pocket: The Artful Camera of Peter Basch (1969) Peter Basch's Guide to Figure Photography (1975 with Jack Rey) Thoughts on Peter Basch by his daughter: "My Father, Peter Basch, saw. He looked and he saw. He taught me to see. He taught me to listen and hear. We used to play a game when I was little. He’d say, Michele, look at the street then look at me, what did you see? I would list the cars, red, black, navy; people, fat, tall, thin; children, parents; trees and plants. He would add the detail. A blue car with New York plates, a black car with New Jersey plates. The people were not just tall or small, thin or fat, they wore coats or sweaters, they laughed or were sad. The trees had leaves, were close together, the green was dark, vivid, the sun playing with the shadow. My Father saw. He captured in his mind and on film the unexpected moment in time, the interaction between two people, the look, the thought, the breath that punctuated the decision. My Father was one of the great romantics. He had a true love and appreciation of beauty in its purest form. We would talk about BEAUTY and her differences: natural, Hollywood, young, old and the beauty of communication, interaction, the Beauty of the moment. He recorded the breath in time on film: two ladies in Paris reading the paper, a Dachshund looking around the corner, a chair in front of the Eiffel Tower. My Father saw the thought and seized it for posterity. My Father understood the language light speaks to shadow. He showed me how the sun plays with dark. His favorite moment was at Sunrise when the shadows were long and soft. He saw every hue from white to black and everything in between. He understood the language, taught and published books on Light and Shadow, Form and Figure. I traveled through Europe with my Father. I was his assistant! And proud of it! I was the camera person! Changed the film, made sure the lens was clean, stood in during special poses, helped in the dark room, retouched to refine and perfect. I loved watching him talk and listen. He listened to Jane Fonda, Ursula Andress, Brigit Bardot, Fellini, Mastroiani and so many more. He listened and recorded the answer, the thought, that moment of indecision, realization and Seduction." Film Assignments: 8½ - Fellini Jules et Jim - Truffaut Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune - Vadim The Vice and the Virtue - Vadim Fearless Vampire Killers - Polanski Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - De Sica Une Femme Est Une Femme Goddard Fear - Rosselini Cartouche - De Broca Giant - Stevens Anne Frank - Stevens Guys and Dolls - Mankiewicz Horse Soldiers - Ford Majority of One - Leroy Walk on the Wild Side - Dmytryk Wild in the Streets - Spear Leonidas - Matte The Day the Fish Came Out - Cocayannis The Pawnbroker - Lumet La Verite - Clouzot La Loi Sacree - Pabst Baby Doll - Kazan Summertime - Lean The 13 Most Beautiful Girls - Warhol The Three Sisters - Bogart Francis of Assissi - Curtiz The Swimmer Perry Cape Fear The Man Who Had Power Over Women The Spy With The Cold Nose Winnetou Mata Hari Exhibitions: 2002 Jewish Museum - Vienna Austria “Vom Grossvater vertrieben” 2002 LEICA Gallery, NYC Portrait of Al Hirschfeld 2001 National Portrait Gallery -- London Dame Elizabeth (Taylor) 2001 Fahey-Klein Gallery, LA Group Show/Great Directors 2001 Museum/City of New York, Al Hirschfeld Exhibit 2000 Museum of Modern Art, NY, Brigitte Bardot 1999 Vienna, Austria – “übersee” 1999 Stadt Museum, Munich, Germany “TWEN” exhibit 1997 Museum of the Moving Image – Grace Kelly 1996 Staley Wise Gallery, NY “Shooting Stars” – one man show 1980s Museum of Modern Art, NY, Sophia Loren LA County Museum "Masters of Starlight" (subsequently traveled to Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan) Stadt Museum, Munich, Germany “AKT” (nudes) __________________________________________________________________JOI LANSING BIO
(April 6, 1929 - August 7, 1972) was a model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer.Lansing was born Joyce Rae Brown in Salt Lake City, Utah to Jack Glenn Brown, a shoe salesman, and Virginia Grace Shupe Brown, a housewife. She would later be known as Joyce Wassmansdorff, which was the surname of her stepfather. She began modeling in her teens, and, aged 14, was signed to a contract at MGM. She completed high school on the studio lot.A model and actress, Lansing was often cast in roles similar to those played by her contemporaries, Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren. She was frequently clad in skimpy costumes and bikinis that accentuated her attractive figure, but never posed nude. Lansing practiced yoga for relaxation. A Mormon, she did not drink or smoke.Lansing's film career began in 1948, and, in 1952, she played an uncredited role in MGM's Singin' in the Rain. She received top billing in Hot Cars (1956). In the opening sequence of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958), she appeared as Zita, the dancer who dies at the end of the famous first tracking shot, during which her character exclaims to a border guard, "I keep hearing this ticking noise inside my head!" Lansing had a brief role as an astronaut's girlfriend in the 1958 sci-fi classic Queen of Outer Space. During the 1950s, she starred in short musical films for the Scopitone video-jukebox system. Her songs included "The Web of Love" and "The Silencers".Though Lansing was a rival to Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren, she hardly ever had the lead role in any movie. Most of her early roles were uncredited ones and some of her later roles were uncredited ones also. She is considered a character actress rather than a leading lady.In the 1964, producer Stanley Todd discussed a film project with Lansing tentatively titled Project 22 with location shooting planned in Yugoslavia and George Hamilton and Geraldine Chaplin named to the cast. The movie was never made. Lansing played "Lola" in Marriage on the Rocks (1965) with a cast that included Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, and Dean Martin. Her last film was Bigfoot (1970).Lansing appeared in The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, It's a Great Life, I Love Lucy, Where's Raymond?, Noah's Ark, State Trooper, This Man Dawson, Maverick, and had a recurring role in The Beverly Hillbillies. She is best known perhaps as Shirley Swanson in The Bob Cummings Show or Love That Bob (1956–1959). She appeared in several episodes as a busty model who was the foil for photographer Cummings. The series ran for 173 episodes. She also appeared as the title character in "Superman's Wife, " a 1958 episode of The Adventures of Superman.What was possibly Lansing's best role may ironically have been her least-seen -- as the leading lady in The Fountain of Youth, a Peabody Award-winning unsold television pilot directed by Orson Welles for Desilu in 1956 and broadcast once for the Colgate Theatre two years later. The half-hour film remains available for public viewing at the Paley Center for Media in New York City and Los Angeles.In the 1960–1961 season of the NBC Western Klondike, Lansing appeared as Goldie with Ralph Taeger, James Coburn, and Mari Blanchard. In May 1963, Lansing appeared in Falcon Frolics '63. The broadcast honored the men stationed at the Vandenberg Air Force Base. By 1956, she had appeared in more than 200 television shows.She appeared in five episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies in the role of "Gladys Flatt, " the unlikely glamorous wife of bluegrass musician Lester Flatt.She named Ozzie Nelson as possessing the greatest sex appeal of any actor with whom she worked. The two played a love scene in a Fireside Theater drama. The show was hosted by Jane Wyman. Lansing was sometimes referred to as television's Marilyn Monroe.Lansing broke into night club entertaining in 1965. She had taken up singing during an actors strike in the early 1960s. In May 1965, Lansing cut her first record album. It was composed of a collection of songs written especially for her by composer Jimmie Haskel and actress Stella Stevens. Lansing performed in the Fiesta Room in Las Vegas, Nevada, in July 1966. Featured on the bill were Red Buttons and Jayne Mansfield.In 1972 Joi Lansing died from breast cancer at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California where she had initially been treated surgically for the disease earlier the same year.FilmographyFeatures When a Girl's Beautiful (1947) Linda Be Good (1947) The Counterfeiters (1948) Easter Parade (1948) Julia Misbehaves (1948) Blondie's Secret (1948) Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) Neptune's Daughter (1949) The Girl from Jones Beach (1949) In the Good Old Summertime (1949) On the Riviera (1951) Pier 23 (1951) FBI Girl (1951) Two Tickets to Broadway (1951) Singin' in the Rain (1952) The Merry Widow (1952) The French Line (1954) Son of Sinbad (1955) Finger Man (1955) Hot Cars (1956) Hot Shots (1956) The Brave One (1957) Touch of Evil (1958) Queen of Outer Space (1958) A Hole in the Head (1959) It Started with a Kiss (1959) But Not for Me (1959) The Atomic Submarine (1959) Who Was That Lady? (1960) Marriage on the Rocks (1965) Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967) Bigfoot (1970)Short Subjects Super Cue Men (1937) So You Want to Go to a Nightclub (1954) So You're Taking in a Roomer (1954) So You Want to Be on a Jury (1955) So You Want to Be a V.P. (1955) So You Want to Be a Policeman (1955) So You Think the Grass Is Greener (1956) The Fountain of Youth (1958) Courtesy of Wikipedia
