Joan Weldon(1930-2021)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
A blue-eyed, chestnut-haired beauty, Joan Weldon trained to be a
singer, and made her professional debut as a member of the San
Francisco Opera Company. While appearing with the Los Angeles Civic
Light Opera Company, she came to the attention of Warner Brothers, who
took her out of grand opera and put her in horse operas
(The Command (1954),
Riding Shotgun (1954)), a crime
drama (The System (1953)) and, most
famously, the biggest and best of the "Big Bug" movies, 1954's
Them! (1954). Amidst her movie roles, all
of them dramatic, non-singing parts, Weldon sang at the Hollywood Bowl,
on her TV series
This Is Your Music (1955)
and on tour in "The Music Man" (on tour for three years as the
repressed Marian the Librarian). She and her husband reside in
Manhattan.
