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Joan Staley

Joan Staley

Acting
20 May 1940
24 Nov 2019
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Biography

Lovely Joan Staley was born Joan McConchie on May 20, 1940 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and started taking violin lessons by the time she was three years old. Living in Los Angeles, her prodigious talent was obvious. She soon joined a baby orchestra in Los Angeles and, within a few years, became a Junior Symphony performer at age six. She also made her unbilled specialty debut on film as a child violinist in The Emperor Waltz (1948), starring Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine. Her father's business ha...

Also Known As

Joan Lynette McConchie

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