Personal Info
Birth date
1927-11-17 (97 Years)
Day of death
1995-08-01
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Also known as
Joyce Elaine Romeo
Jacqueline Fontaine
Biography
Joyce Elaine Romeo, the raven-haired daughter of Orlando and Emma Romeo of 5606 34th Avenue in Kenosha, Wisconsin, studied at the nearby McKinley Junior High School and the downtown Mary D. Bradford High School while simultaneously nurturing her dreams of performing before appreciative audiences. She made her first such appearances in Chicago clubs before coming to Los Angeles for George White's Scandals and Billy Gray's Band Box (Dorothy Kilgallen noted her in July, 1946 as a dancer at LaConga) and local television. One such telecast caught the eye of producer Ron Ormond who signed her for "Outlaw Women" (1952) without a screen test. Previously she had appeared with Mickey Rooney as "the other woman" in The Strip. Also in 1952 Jacki (as she was labeled on Crystalette Records songs) worked with Jack Carson at the Sahati's Country Club Casino in Stateline, Nevada. Bing Crosby noticed her at a Pebble Beach golf tournament and cast her in The Country Girl. Later she did live appearances with comic Lenny Kent at the Casino Lounge in the Mapes Hotel and in 1962 with Buddy Lester at New Facks and at the Losers Club in Hollywood. and by 1965 at the Jamaica Room of the West Valley Bowl and at Sunset Boulevard's Key Club. Three years later she worked as a regular in a troupe with singer-comic Duke Mitchell, and by the 1970s she was seen at Aladdin's Funny Farm, the new Nine Thousand and the Fire and Flame in North Hollywood, with billing calling her "The Performer's Performer".
Filmography
At Theatre Tonight
6.667
Overview:
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
NYR
Overview:
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television seriesBilitis
5.308
Overview:
A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
7.6
Overview:
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.The Country Girl
6.9
Overview:
An ex-theater actor is given one more chance to star in a musical yet his alcoholism may prevent it from happening.Alvarez Kelly
6.2
Overview:
In 1864, during the American Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until unexpected circumstances force him to change his customers.The Ladies Man
6.295
Overview:
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?Gallant Ladies
3.3
Overview:
Despite being busy with his profession of soldiery, Brantome manages to find much more time for amorous dalliances with the ladies of the 16th-century French court than for battles. Unfortunately for him, his true love, Victoire, is beyond his reach most of the time. He more than compensates for this in the arms of others.The Strip
5.7
Overview:
Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder.Murderers' Row
5.795
Overview:
The handsome top agent Matt dies a tragic death in his bath tub - the women mourn about the loss. However it's just faked for his latest top-secret mission: He shall find Dr. Solaris, inventor of the Helium laser beam, powerful enough to destroy a whole continent. It seems Dr. Solaris has been kidnapped by a criminal organization. The trace leads to the Cote D'Azur.Outlaw Women
4.6
Overview:
A old west town run by women. All the town's business is controlled by a woman gambler who tries not to succumb to the allure of a handsome and persistent cowboy.How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
5.5
Overview:
A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and invent himself an awful life. Then he meets the beautiful woman whose goal in life is to sleep with the less exciting guys on Earth.Skipalong Rosenbloom
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Overview:
Skipalong Rosenbloom is the star of a heavily commercialized TV kiddie show, presided over by a smarmy announcer. He is at odds with western bad guy Butcher Baer.Untamed Mistress
4.5
Overview:
Two men search the jungle for a woman who has been captured by a tribe of murderous gorillas. When they finally find her, they must fight off attacks by the gorillas, who are determined to keep her.Under the Sign of the Bull
6.313
Overview:
In this film, Albert is an eccentric inventor of missiles who comes under fire from his investors when his first prototype explodes. Even his sympathetic mistress has her doubts, as Albert lashes out in a verbal tirade condemning those of little faith in his genius.The Cross and the Banner
NYR
Overview:
In this uneven tragedy by director Philippe Ducrest, a misunderstanding brings out the murderous side of one of the protagonists. The popular Michel Galabru makes one of his early screen appearances as a thief who in his haste to escape from the law, stuffs a diamond necklace he has just stolen into a purse in a store. The woman who buys the handbag takes it home without inspecting its interior and leaves it where her husband notices it, opens it up, and sees the valuable necklace. Immediately jumping to the conclusion that his wife has been up to no good, his reaction leads to a separation -- and much worse.The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
5.5
Overview:
TV writer Greg Whitcomb did his military service heroically but now has settled into everyday life with a young wife, Katy. A letter from the war department arrives that Katy believes is calling Greg back to active duty from the Air Force reserve, but she hides it during a party celebrating their wedding anniversary.It's Tough for Everybody
5.458
Overview:
After losing his job, an idealistic adman starts his own agency, putting himself in the crosshairs of his jaded ex-boss.The Daltons' Women
2
Overview:
The Dalton gang has moved west taking new identities and Marshals Lash and Fuzzy are after them. They receive help from Pinkerton agent Joan Talbot as they try to sort out who the bad guys really are.Impasse of Two Angels
5.6
Overview:
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved.The Egg
5.7
Overview:
Emile Magis, a modest employee, more or less ostracized by the others, would like only one thing, to be happy. Little by little he realizes that life in society is a matter of convention, lies and deception. When he has understood that cynicism rules the world, he decides to play by its untold rules and to take his revenge.Back Streets of Paris
6.1
Overview:
Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple, she once killed her husband whose honesty was a hindrance to her business. Under a suspended sentence, she now indulges in smuggling. One day, Victor, one of her former accomplices hounded by the police, finds sanctuary with her. During a drinking spree, he has the bad idea to entrust to her a suitcase filled with bank notes, a loot with which Victor hopes to rebuild his life in South America. But Rose, lured by temptation, betrays Victor, who is arrested by the police. However, he manages to escape with only one thing in mind, to take revenge on Rose...Le naïf amoureux
NYR
Overview:
Paul is an accomplished teacher at Janson-de-Sailly. A "good guy" who, having returned for the holidays to the provincial town where he was raised, finds Véronique, his childhood friend. He falls madly in love...Les Cent livres : A la recherche du temps perdu
NYR
Overview:
An evocation, realistic and poetic at the same time, of Proust's work " in which he is locked up as in the room ". Halfway between the audiovisual adaptation and the portrait of the dandy and reclusive writer, all in black and white signed Claude Santelli, evoking the mystery, the intimate, and the fatality of existence.Born to Be Loved
5.2
Overview:
Director Hugo Haas reprises the theme of romantic love in this routine yet innocent story of matchmaking. The setting is an overcrowded tenement building in which the residents seem to live beyond the reach of muggers or drug dealers or trigger-happy gangs because they mingle and mix in the halls as they energetically interact with each other.Acting
1990Gallant Ladies as Parente Labadens
1982Lorsque l'enfant parait as Charlotte Jacquet
1977Bilitis as Supervisor
1975It's Tough for Everybody as Unknown
1974How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby as La femme de Marcel
1972The Egg as (uncredited)
1971Les Cent livres : A la recherche du temps perdu as Unknown
1969Under the Sign of the Bull as Louise, la domestique des Raynal
1967Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Singer (uncredited)
1966Murderers' Row as Singer at Wake (uncredited)
1966Alvarez Kelly as Bordello Girl
1966At Theatre Tonight (1 Episode) as Hélène
1965Le naïf amoureux as A client
1962The Cross and the Banner as Unknown
1961The Ladies Man as Working Girl
1959Born to Be Loved as Dame
1958Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1 Episode) as La réceptionniste
1956The Lieutenant Wore Skirts as Buxom Blonde at Party
1954The Country Girl as Lounge Singer
1952Outlaw Women as Ellen Larabee
1951The Strip as Frieda
1951Untamed Mistress as Velda
1951Skipalong Rosenbloom as Caroline Witherspoon
1950The Daltons' Women as Jacqueline Fontaine
1948Impasse of Two Angels as Unknown
1946Back Streets of Paris as Unknown